Bad news for TUSD
by David Safier TUSD Superintendent Elizabeth Celania-Fagen will be leaving TUSD for Colorado's Douglas County School District, according to breaking news in the Star. Advertisement This is bad news for Tucson. Celania-Fagen is bright, capable and looked to be leading the district in the right direction, after years of leaders taking the district nowhere. On … Read more
Paton supports George W. Bush’s hair-brained scheme to privatize social security
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The wannabe tin horn dictator of Tucson, former payday lender lobbyist and state senator Jonathan Paton, says he supports George W. Bush's failed hair-brained scheme to privatize social security. Just imagine how much more of Americans' retirement security the pirates of Wall Street could have stolen had Bush succeeded in risking their … Read more
Interesting new developments in the Arizona Senate race
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: There are some interesting new developments in the Arizona Senate race. The GOP primary between Sen. John McCain and former congressman J.D. Hayworth appears to be a dogfight. Poll: McCain-Hayworth primary race tightening. McCain now leads Hayworth 48 percent to 41 percent, a much narrower margin than the previous Rasmussen poll in … Read more
The Accidental Governor signs the Jan Sham Budget
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Accidental Governor, Jan Brewer, put her signature to 12 budget bills yesterday, including the draconian FY 2011 budget that she proposed earlier this year and which was modified only slightly by the GOP insane clown posse leadership, and proposes fixes to the FY 2010 budget that Republicans have failed to balance in … Read more
G.I. Guarantee Watch: Please, Mr. Postman, part 6
by David Safier Sigh. Still nothing in the mail from Starlee Rhoades at the Goldwater Institute answering my simple question: What does "many" mean in her sentence: "We believe the term bureaucrat accurately describes many of the employees in question and is a fair use of the term." Still no reply, even though she ended … Read more
Reminder: LD 28 House Democratic Candidate Debate Friday
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I have heard from the organizers of this event that they asked four different reporters from the Arizona Daily Star to participate on a media panel to ask questions, and all four declined. Maybe they should have told them it was a Republican event — then Rhonda Bodfield would have showed up. … Read more
The next health care fight
by David Safier In sports, you're told never to look beyond the game you're playing. Stay focused! But in chess, you're told to think at least 3 moves ahead. Dems may not be terrific at sports, but they're truly terrible at chess. Republicans play 3 dimensional chess while Democrats are sitting on a park bench … Read more
