Oh, how the AP (all propaganda) loves to spin for GOP talking points
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Check out the nut graph paragraph from this AP (all propaganda) story GOP gains House seat from Hawaii: Advertisement HONOLULU – Republicans scored a midterm election victory Saturday when Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou won a Democratic-held House seat in Hawaii in the district where President Barack Obama grew up – the … Read more
Secretary of State Ken Bennett follows in Jan Brewer’s footsteps of election mismanagement
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: When Jan Brewer was Secretary of State, she frequently mismanaged elections in this state from improperly certifying election software that had not been properly reviewed and certified by the federal testing labs and purchasing security vulnerable touch-screen voting machines, to being unable to timely validate signatures on petitions for voter initiatives. Two … Read more
SB1070 Update: Comment from Meade
by David Safier An illustrative comment from Meade. It's OK to be without a birth certificate if you're (a) not living in Arizona post SB1070, or (b) white. I recently celebrated my 75th year on this planet. I never saw my official birth certificate until 8 years ago when I obtained a certified copy thinking … Read more
Election integrity issues in Oro Valley election
by David Safier Here's what I've heard. If anyone knows more, please comment. Oro Valley held city elections May 18 along with the Prop 100 vote. Two candidates ran for mayor. Satish Hiremath was the conservative candidate who ran with lots of local business support. Mike Zinkin was the more progressive candidate, supported by Oro … Read more
Lynn/Urquides Elementary School gets sizable library grant
by David Safier Friend of El Blog and Assistant Principal at Lynn/Urquides Elementary Patt Hale emailed me Thursday, giddy with excitement, about a grant her school's library received. Today the story is in the Star: The Lynn/Urquides Elementary School library is about to undergo an extreme makeover after receiving a grant that will outfit the … Read more
Sen. Russell Pearce’s next target: women and babies
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: H/t to the Rachel Maddow blog Arizona's Pearce goes after moms: "If we are going to have an effect on the anchor baby racket, we need to target the mother. Call it sexist, but that's the way nature made it. Men don't drop anchor babies, illegal alien mothers do." That statement was … Read more
Federal court upholds Clean Elections matching funds
Posted by Craig McDermott From a Howard Fischer story in the AZ Daily Star – Arizona laws which give matching dollars to publicly financed candidates for office when their privately funded foes spend more are legal, a federal appeals court ruled today. In a unanimous decision, the three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of … Read more
