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GOP civil war over the sales tax special election
March 9, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: In this corner we have the Accidental Governor, Jan Brewer, Arizona Republican Party Chairman Randy Pullen, the editors of The Arizona Republic, and oddly enough, the Arizona Education Association who support passage of the temporary sales tax increase in the special election on May 18. In the other corner we have the Grover Norquist
Catholic Bishops tell Pearce, Withdraw anti-immigrant bill
March 9, 2010
by David Safier Let's hope this gets more coverage. The Phoenix New Times reports, The Bishops of the Arizona Catholic Conference, which includes the Dioceses of Phoenix, Tucson, and Gallup, New Mexico, issued a statement today criticizing state Senator Russell Pearce's mirror anti-immigrant measures HB 2632 and SB 1070, urging that they be yanked from
So glad that I’m not at the lege today…
March 9, 2010
Posted by Craig McDermott I am unable to trek down to the Capitol today, and after watching the Senate Appropriations meeting online for 30 minutes, I'm glad I'm staying away. After listening to Russell Pearce pontificate on George Soros trying to legalize heroin (Pearce is still ticked off over the Voter Protection Act being voted
Arizona Daily Star comes late to the party in support of health care reform
March 9, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Daily Star today in an editorial opinion came out strongly for passage of the health care reform bill. Health-care bill must be passed now, not in 5 years. Well, gee thanks guys. You are a little late to the party. Where was this over the past year when it really
I didn’t say it
March 9, 2010
by David Safier I didn't say it, but J. Davidson did in a comment about Ladner's Zany, Zen-y Emails, referring to the text of one of Ladner's emails in response to my "Are teachers bureaucrats too?" question. "All baseballs are balls, but not all balls are baseballs." Dude. Ladner gets paid $141,000 a year for
And so it continues – the gutting of Arizona’s future
March 8, 2010
Posted by Craig McDermott I and others will do a more complete analysis of the bills that the lege is pushing as its budget "solution", but here is a brief bit on each, mostly from the factsheets prepared by legislative staff. I'm using the House bills here, but the Senate has an identical version of
“Tell it to the Navy SEALS”
March 8, 2010
by David Safier BruceJ, a reader, chimes in about Ladner's "all government employees except teachers are bureaucrats" line: If he literally believes that everyone who works for the government is a bureaucrat, he should have no trouble telling a buncha Navy SEALS that they're 'just bureaucrats'.
