UPDATE: The Accidental Governor sues her own GOP Legislature
June 17, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Accidental Governor ignored my sound advice from yesterday to launch a preemptive strike by sending her veto message of the GOP budget to the Legislature to break this childish standoff. Instead, she opted to waste taxpayer money and risk unnecessary delay at this criticial time to pursue litigation against her own GOP
When will Republicans be granted their rights?
June 17, 2009
by David SafierWho knew that Republicans were a besieged minority group fighting for their rights just like . . . Wait, I must have read this wrong. Let me take another look . . . Nope, that's what it says. Republicans are fighting for their rights like Iranians who've taken to the streets. Twitter is
I’m just asking
June 17, 2009
by David SafierWhy do Arizona Senate Republicans want to tax the rich? Well, that's not exactly what they want. This is what was actually voted on. The Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday voted to slash the salary of every state and university employee earning at least $100,000 a year by that much for one year.
Star’s article on Charter School study
June 17, 2009
by David SafierRhonda Bodfield has an article in the Star on the Stanford Charter School study I posted about a few days ago. It's basically a good, thorough article, which I've come to expect from Bodfield's reporting, with commentary from people on both sides of the issue. But Bodfield made one strange choice. She mentioned
What happens if state government shuts down on July 1?
June 17, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: This question was posed by the Arizona Republic today and reporters Casey Newton and Mary Jo Pitzl received some interesting answers What if the budget rift shuts down the state?: If government does shut down, Arizonans will feel it in several ways. An Arizona Republic survey of key state agencies found: •
The Accidental Governor begins preparing for a state government shutdown
June 16, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: After earlier denying reports that she had told House Minority Leader David Lujan last week that she was prepared to shut down government if a budget deal isn't struck, on Monday the Accidental Governor ordered her agency chiefs to figure out what state services will continue — and which will not —
GOP budget negotiations end in impasse
June 16, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Arizona Senate President Bob "Bluto" Burns imploded the "double super secret" GOP budget negotiations with our Accidental Governor on Sunday evening when negotiations ended in a GOP food fight and Burns walked out in a dramatic exit. State budget talks stall as suit is threatened Well, there's the problem – too many
UPDATE: Bill to eviscerate Citizens Clean Elections voted out of Senate Judiciary Committee
June 16, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Tucson's wannabe tin horn dictator, Sen. Jonathan Paton, not satisfied with telling the residents of Tucson how they must conduct their local elections, and still not satisfied with telling the parents of Tucson Unified School District what curriculum TUSD must teach their children, yesterday told the voters of Arizona that we were
