Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I told you about the Arizona Republic's bizarre editorial taking Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and Arizona Democratic Party Chair Andrei Cherny to task for not being "gracious enough" for Gov. Brewer's veto of the "birther bill," and then making a false equivalency between their impolitic statements and the nuttiness of the "Birthers, Birchers and … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Tedski has a post at R-Cubed about yet another Southern Arizona Tea-Publican authoritarian trying to super-legislate and dictate to the City of Tucson, this time Rep. Ted Vogt (TP-LD30) who is trying to dictate Tucson's election system in a way that he believes benefits his brother, Tyler Vogt, who is running for … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The East Valley Tribune published a week-long series entitled "SB 1070: A Year Later." There is an online (unscientific) poll One year after SB 1070 was signed, how do you see its impact on Arizona? which as of the time of this post has an interesting result:   UPDATE: The Arizona Republic today … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Now the state of Michigan is using the police to arrest children for exercising their First Amendment constitutional rights of free speech and of association to petition their government not to close their school upon the dictate of an unelected emergency financial manager. Tyranny "can come silently, slowly, like fog creeping in 'on … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry learned of Sen. Frank Antenori's secret plan to end civil service merit selection for county employees during a review of legislation that passed in the wee hours before sine die. This secret plan was not reported by any Capitol reporters at the time. Huckelberry alerted the Arizona Daily Star … Read more

By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings On Friday's edition of Horizon on PBS, three Capitol beat journalists – Howie Fischer (Capitol Media Services), Ginger Rough (Arizona Republic), and Dennis Welch (Arizona Guardian) – discussed the final hours of the legislative session and made one prediction: Later this year, perhaps in the fall, there will … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I have posted several posts recently about "The People's Budget" offered by the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and its co-chair, Tucson's own Congressman Raúl Grijalva. I have suggested and prodded the Clueless political reporters at our sad small-town newspaper the Arizona Daily Star to pick up the phone and interview Congressman Grijalva about "The People's Budget." … Read more