Posted by AzBlueMeanie: And they say running the Democratic Party is like herding cats… If you have not been following this story, Pima County GOP chairman Brian Miller has got himself sideways with his fellow Republicans who recently stripped him of his powers and taken away his keys to the kingdom at Pima County GOP headquarters … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: PIMA COUNTY SUPERVISOR REDISTRICTINGPUBLIC HEARINGS ON COMMITTEE DRAFT MAP Please attend a public hearing to provide comments on the Pima County Redistricting Advisory Committee's draft map. The committee was appointed by the Pima County Board of Supervisors to help redraw Supervisor District boundary lines based on updated U.S. Census figures. According to … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Rupert Murdoch's Watergate Carl Bernstein: Is Phone-Hacking Scandal Murdoch's Watergate? – Newsweek is growing larger every day — and this is before any sworn witness testimony before government committees in Britain and the U.S. Carl Bernstein said on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell last night this may be the biggest story of the … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: A new paper by Cornell University's Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions Suzanne Mettler, Reconstituting the Submerged State: The Challenges of Social Policy Reform in the Obama Era (PDF) features this remarkable chart showing that about half of American social program beneficiaries believe that they "have not used a government social program." That's … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The business community has been warning the leadership of the Tea-Publican Congress for months now not to screw around when it comes to raising the federal debt ceiling. Most of these conversations have been in private out of public view, until now. The reason that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Tea-Publican contempt for our democratic process exemplified by running "fake" Democrats in the Democratic primary in Wisconsin on Tuesday failed. Traditional GOP voter suppression efforts in this election also failed. Real Democratic recall candidates cruise to victory over fakes: None of the six placeholder or "fake" Democratic Senate candidates pulled off … Read more

by David Safier Until now, I had a few favorite lines in the Lori Klein story. Saying about her gun, "Oh, it's so cute," was probably number one. "I just didn't have my hand on the trigger, god" ranked as number two. But it was so hard to choose. But now we have a winner. … Read more