Bodfield Mischaracterizes Clean Elections
It has become a common slander of the right wing to charge that Clean Elections are welfare for politicians or taxpayer funded elections. It's a slander because it is simply not true. Clean Elections does not get ANY tax dollars, at all. It accepts only voluntary contributions and surcharges on criminal and civil penalties. Not … Read more
SB1070 Update: 1,443,617 Strong AGAINST the Arizona Immigration Law SB1070
by David Safier Last time I counted, 1 MILLION Strong AGAINST the Arizona Immigration Law SB1070 had topped half a million. Now it's closing in on a million and a half. 1,443,658 to be exact, at 10:36AM Sunday (That's 41 more than when I wrote the headline about a minute ago). Join in. Tell your … Read more
Sen. McCain’s cheesy new ad: Complete the danged fence
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: President Ronald Reagan is supposed to be some kind of iconic hero for having said "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." That was then, this is now. Today, Republicans are falling all over themselves to put up a wall on the U.S. border — just with Mexico, mind you. Canada, not so … Read more
Praising Star headline with faint damns
by David Safier It's a pretty good headline: Obama: Health-care law already helping No real complaints about the Star headline for the AP story about the first positive effects of health care reform on families and businesses. But I was curious to see how other papers headlined the story. I found, other papers used the … Read more
Another late entry in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Capitol Times Yellow Sheet in a tweet YellowSheetReport (TheYellowSheet) on Twitter reported: Former DHS Director Catherine Eden files to run as Dem candidate for U.S. Senate. 4:58 PM May 6th via TweetDeck Dan Nowicki at the Arizona Republic reports Sunday 3 Democrats join battle to unseat John McCain: Former state … Read more
Nominating petitions – where the rubber meets the road
Posted by Craig McDermott Every election cycle, there are far more candidates before nominating petitions are due than after. In other words, more people start candidate committees than actually file nominating petitions to make it on to the ballot. For most of the pretenders, collecting signatures requires more work than they can put in (to collect … Read more
Arpaio refuses to show his documents
Posted by Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings And the "delicious irony" series continues… Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is one of the most ardent supporters of the Fourth Amendment-overriding SB1070, the new law in Arizona that requires folks to produce documents proving citizenship/legal presence in the U.S. whenever a law enforcement officer demands that … Read more
