Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Are the blinders that the media villagers have been wearing for 30 years finally coming off? The media finally takes a critical view of GOP economic policies in two reports. Advertisement The first report is by Charles Babbington of the AP (all propaganda) which remarkably gets the facts right for a change. … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Last Thursday, Secretary of State Ken Bennett announced that three independent expenditure committees active in the Phoenix mayoral and council elections will be audited to crackdown on special interests that may be trying to skirt campaign finance laws. Arizona to audit 3 campaign groups: Bennett said Thursday that groups selected for the … Read more

Posted  by AzBlueMeanie: Let this be a warning to anyone who signs on as the treasurer to a campaign. You are the "designated felon" should you fail to disclose or file your reports improperly. I almost feel sorry for Olivia Cortes. "King" Russell Pearce's operatives talked her into running as their stalking horse candidate to … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The billionaire bastard Koch brothers are not satisfied with setting up right-wing think tanks that produce bogus research and draft legislation for Tea-Publican legislators, oh no. They are also funding propaganda news that fuels the right-wing alternate reality in the echo chamber of the right-wing noise machine. And other right-wing organizations are … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Capitol Times (subscription required) has finally followed up on the secretive GOP redistricting organization FAIR Trust that Steve Muratore and I have been posting about and exposes the organization today in FAIR game? - Arizona Capitol Times (excerpts): FAIR Trust’s attorneys say they want to help the commission adhere to the legal requirements that govern … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Dante may need to create a new ring of hell for these soulless evil creatures. The law firm of Steven J. Baum is what is commonly referred to as a “foreclosure mill” firm, and is, in fact, the largest such firm in New York; it represents virtually all the giant mortgage lenders, … Read more

by David Safier The Star has a very short print excerpt from a longer AP article about physicist Richard Muller's discovery that global warming is for real. This should be about as earth shattering a news story as an 1850 piece like, "Astronomer discovers Earth revolves around Sun." But Muller was the global deniers' scientific … Read more