by David Safier I've been hearing the stats from this week's NY Times/CBS News poll about the demographics and attitudes of Tea Partiers. Advertisement At least, that's how I've interpreted the results — as a polling of people active in the Tea Party movement. Wrong. The stats are from a phone poll where people were … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: This list requires reader participation to clean it up. I have reviewed the Federal Election Commission filings (several candidates have not filed any financial reports indicating that they may not be active candidates). I have also reviewed the Green Papers which in general is pretty accurate. http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G10/AZ  "I" indicates incumbent. U.S. Senate Rodolfo … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Time once again to update candidate filings. Time is running out boys and girls. The filing deadline is May 26, 2010. You can play along at home at http://www.azsos.gov/cfs/CommitteeSearch.aspx Since the last SWAG Update, Tucson Vice Mayor Rodney Glassman resigned from office to run for U.S. Senate. Nan Stockholm Walden decided not … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I had to laugh when Sarah Palin cherry-picked a CBS News poll about Tea Party members being white, older, financially better-off (i.e., because of that "socialist" social security and Medicare life support) and "better educated" than the general public to assert that teabaggers are "above average" and have a "higher I.Q." than … Read more

by David Safier Yesterday I posted about Melvin's response to a takedown in the Republic criticizing his proposal to spend $200,000 in state funds to put vigilantes militia a Volunteer Security Force on the border to replace Melvin's beloved but defunct Minutemen. Melvin, I wrote, defended himself by saying we have an immigration problem. He … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: David Safier was way too polite in his treatment of this issue. David Neiwert, a reporter who has written extensively about right-wing extremist groups has this post at crooksandliars.com. Papers Please: In attacking illegal immigration, Arizona transforms itself to a police state Well, you gotta figure that if crypto-fascist Sheriff Joe Arpaio … Read more

by David Safier Our proposed harshest-in-the-nation anti-immigrant law is getting lots of national press. The latest is this piece on CBS News. Just what we need: Russell Pearce as the face of Arizona. The next logical step: Joe Arpaio in pink underwear on Dancing with the Stars. (Sorry about that image, folks. I hope you're … Read more