Near simultaneous discovery of Gatewood/Stagecoach clip (and a Woody Guthrie addition)
Tim Pawlenty of Nuthin’ drops presidential bid
Supply tuition being charged at our public schools
AIRC releases first grid maps
(Update) The Man With a Plan: Jonathan Rothschild fo Mayor of Tucson
(Update) Terri Proud of Tea Party Tyranny
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
World Net Daily conspiracy theorist and WATB teabagger Rep. Terri Proud (R-LD26) has a guest opinion in the Sunday Arizona Daily Star, still pushing her bullshit conspiracy theories about the Arizona Independent Redstricting Commission. The woman is shameless. Too bad Star's not reporting redistricting group's abuses.
It is an ironic caption. The Star should be reporting the abuses of the AIRC by teabaggers Rep. Proud and Sen. Frank Antenori (R-LD30). Stephen Lemons of the Phoenix New Times systematically destroyed every one of Rep. Proud's conspiracy theories a few weeks ago. Arizona's Redistricting Commission Should Regard the Tea Party as Disruptive Loons:
More than anything, the Tea Party movement in Arizona reminds me of the assorted wackjobs who believed that the 9/11 attacks on America were an "inside job" by the administration of President George W. Bush, a moronic contention now thoroughly debunked and discredited.
Like the so-called 9/11 "truthers," Tea Baggers see conspiracies where there are none, spread misinformation without consequence, and vilify any who do not buy their bald-faced bull.
But where the nearly moribund "truth" movement once offered numerous flavors of idiocy, the Tea Baggers march in lockstep, showing up to public meetings with prepared talking points copied off e-mails and websites, repeating over and over the same soft-headed mush and regurgitated canards.
They also are often armed.
They aim to take over or disrupt public meetings, and there often are warnings either from them or from politicians allied with these noxious hillbillies that veer toward the threat of violence.
In short, this anti-democratic force of bikers, nativists, old white biddies, and crazed, self-styled "patriots" have more in common with pre-Berlin Wall-fall Communists than the fomenters of the American Revolution they purportedly revere.
Recently, the Tea Party's true face has been revealed in its attempts to exercise veto power over the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, the five-member panel charged with redrawing the political map of Sand Land, based on the 2010 census.
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In the case of the current AIRC, [the] Independent is Colleen Mathis, a healthcare administrator originally from Peoria, Illinois, who now lives and works in Pima County with her lawyer husband, Chris.
Mathis was unanimously selected to her position by the four appointed commissioners, all of whom are unpaid, as is Mathis. A relevant point considering the amount of abuse that's been heaped upon her by the Tea Party brigade.
Because the Tea Baggers have disagreed with the selection of a mapping consultant with Democratic ties, the D.C. firm Strategic Telemetry, they have focused on Mathis' application and a slight omission they use to claim Mathis "lied" on it.
Supposedly, according to these nudniks, she lied to hide the fact that her husband is a registered Democrat who played the role of treasurer in the unsuccessful 2010 campaign of Democrat Nancy Young Wright for a state House seat from Legislative District 26.
From this original sin flows all Mathis' faults, which include her vote (along with those of the two Dems on the commission) for Strategic Telemetry to be the mapping consultant.
Thing is, Mathis did not lie. In fact, she mentions the name of her husband in the second line of the application.
Busy week coming up for Redistricting Commission
