“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes”
November 5, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." — Attributed to Mark Twain Now this is the kind of thing that the "Jimmy Olsens" at the Arizona Daily Star should be reporting on but never do — because it is being done by their colleagues
Russell Pearce: We don’t need your stinking $7 billion in health care money!
November 5, 2010
by David Safier I'm not an economist, and I don't play one on this blog. But Russell Pearce is no economist either. Logic tells this non-economist that $7 billion flowing into Arizona means a whole lot of jobs, which also means a whole lot of money buying goods and services. People and businesses benefit. To
Tuition Tax Credit case at the Supreme Court
November 5, 2010
by David Safier The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled our tuition tax credit law is unconstitutional because so much of the money is targeted for scholarships at religious schools. The Supreme Court is looking at the ruling right now. It looks like the tax credit law will rise or fall depending on which of
GOP-Borg Collective to Democrats: “You will be assimilated… resistance is futile”
November 5, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday delivered President Obama the Borg Collective imperative: "We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile." In encounters with aliens the Borg exhibit no desire for negotiation or reason, only to assimilate.
Leadership of the 50th Arizona Legislature
November 5, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Republican Leaders Senate Sen. Russell Pearce, Senate President Senator-elect Scott Bundgaard, Majority Leader Sen. Steve Pierce, Majority Whip House Rep. Kirk Adams, House Speaker Rep. Andy Tobin, Majority Leader Rep. Debbie Lesko, Majority Whip Democratic Leaders Senate Senator-elect David Schapira, Minority Leader Sen. Leah Landrum Taylor, Assistant Minority Leader Sen. Paula Aboud,
The Führer of Arizona not a Republican Any Longer?
November 4, 2010
Russell Pearce released his triumphant statement upon his election to the Senate and selection as Majority Leader. It's the usual platitudes of a man drunk on power – nothing much of interest. I love this bit, "Leadership, practiced at its best, is the art and science of calling to the hearts and minds of others."
CD 7 and CD 8 Count Update
November 4, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Secretary of State's web site was last updated 11/4/2010 5:22:18 PM. Congressional District 7 Congressional District 8 Congressman Grijalva has approximately a 6,000 vote lead and the Associated Press has projected him the winner. Democrat Raul Grijalva wins re-election – East Valley Tribune. Congresswoman Giffords has increased her lead to
Polishing the crystal ball…
November 4, 2010
by Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings In the least surprising news rising from the aftermath of Tuesday's elections, Russell Pearce (R-National Alliance) was elected by the R caucus to be the president of the Arizona State Senate. A couple of other senators (Yarbrough, Pierce) were mentioned as being interested, but the only thing
