Obama campaign’s first quarterly FEC financial disclosure report: a record $86 million
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Obama campaign is off to a record-breaking pace in its first quarter of campaign fundraising. Obama campaign's staggering haul: $86 million raised for reelection – latimes.com: President Obama's vast campaign operation raked in $86 million for his reelection and for the Democratic Party during the last three months, breaking previous records … Read more
CA-36 Special Election: Janice Hahn retains seat for Dems
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Los Angeles Times reports today that Janice Hahn defeats Craig Huey, wins House seat: In a hard-fought special congressional election marked by sharp divisions in ideology and even sharper personal attacks, Democrat Janice Hahn defeated underdog Republican Craig Huey on Tuesday. Unofficial election night returns showed Hahn won 54.6% to 45.4%. … Read more
Just substitute an AZ Republican’s name
by David Safier Here's an ad running in Wisconsin against Randy Hopper, one of the state legislators facing recall. It's simple, it's effective, and with a few changes, it would work as an ad against most Arizona Republican legislators. Add to that, it's honest. What a concept!
AZ legislators have tender sensibilities. Who knew?
By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings Last week, EJ Montini of the Arizona Republic wrote a column that pointed out the track record of the Arizona legislature in regards to children – pull out all the stops to "protect" them…until they are born. At that point, the Republicans in the legislature assume a rather … Read more
The crazy train has left the station and we are headed for a train wreck
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The crazy train has left the station with the latest GOP gambit today from the Tea-Publican leadership on the federal debt ceiling negotiations. Shorter version of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell today: "F**k the Constitution! F**k my constitutional duty! The GOP's Gimmicks-R-Us shop has produced a new gimmick that will get us out … Read more
Arizona Democratic Party: Keep Arizona’s Redistricting Independent!
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Message from the Arizona Democratic Party (useful links): Keep Arizona's Redistricting Independent! In 2000, Arizonans overwhelmingly voted to take the power away from politicians who had been gerrymandering our state to advance the interests of political parties. By passing Prop. 106, voters created an Independent Redistricting Commission with two Republicans, two Democrats, … Read more
Treating states as countries, education-wise
by David Safier When the U.S. is compared to other countries in terms of education, it's always the U.S. vs. Finland, the U.S. vs. Sweden, and so on. And we always come out on the losing end. But you know, some of our states have similar populations to European countries. So why not disaggregate our … Read more
