Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Secretary of State's web site was last updated 11/4/2010 5:22:18 PM. Advertisement Congressional District 7 Congressional District 8 Congressman Grijalva has approximately a 6,000 vote lead and the Associated Press has projected him the winner. Democrat Raul Grijalva wins re-election – East Valley Tribune. Congresswoman Giffords has increased her lead … Read more

by Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings   In the least surprising news rising from the aftermath of Tuesday's elections, Russell Pearce (R-National Alliance) was elected by the R caucus to be the president of the Arizona State Senate.  A couple of other senators (Yarbrough, Pierce) were mentioned as being interested, but the only thing … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Secretary of State's web site was last updated 11/4/2010 12:13:17 PM. Congressional District 7   Congressional District 8   As you can see, Congressman Grijalva has approximately a 4,000 vote lead and Congresswoman Giffords has approximately a 2,300 vote lead. Pima County Democratic Party Chairman Jeff Rogers says that he … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Just as I predicted when the Legislature enacted the "Jan Sham Budget" earlier this year with the GOP gimmicks of Props. 301 and 302 to "balance" the state budget, voters resoundingly rejected these propositions by approximately 70% of the vote — exposing the "sham" of Jan Brewer's "balanced" budget. Tuesday's defeat of … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I flagged a comment Jim Nintzel reported in his election night coverage at the Tucson Weekly. Sen. Al Melvin (LD 26) said, "We have a historic thing happening where we're going to have a veto-proof Arizona Senate with over 20 out of 30 Republicans, and we think a veto-proof Arizona House with … Read more

By Michael Bryan Bruce Ash on Arizona Illustrated said something rather odd and distinctly offensive about Tucson: "Little blue impacted area…" Really? Just what the hell do you mean, Bruce? The context that immediately comes to mind by his words and gestures is impacted bowels. I think Bruce may be calling Tucson shit. Bruce, you … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The corporatist conservadems of the DLC and Third Way, and their New Democrat coalition and the Blue Dog coalition in the House bore the brunt of last night's electoral defeats. So how did that "be Republican-light enablers of the GOP" strategy work out for you? The GOP came after you anyway. Of course, the conservadems wanker … Read more