May Special Election: Early Voting Begins This Thursday
April 18, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Courtesy of F. Ann Rodriguez, Pima County Recorder: Election Day: May 18, 2010 SPECIAL STATE-WIDE ELECTIONandTown of Oro Valley Election Early Voting Sites will be located at:Oro Valley Town Hall (Oro Valley Voters ONLY)11000 N. La Cañada Drive – Oro Valley, AZ 85737 – 520-299-4700 Pima County Recorder’s Office
Russell Pearce, “Legislator of the year”
April 18, 2010
by David Safier Here it is: [S]tate Sen. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, was on stage accepting the Legislator of the Year award from the pro-free-market group Americans for Prosperity. Here's the context of that line, which makes things a bit more complex: The tea party gathering Thursday at Tempe Diablo Stadium showed the wide range of
About that “poll of Tea Partiers”
April 18, 2010
by David Safier I've been hearing the stats from this week's NY Times/CBS News poll about the demographics and attitudes of Tea Partiers. At least, that's how I've interpreted the results — as a polling of people active in the Tea Party movement. Wrong. The stats are from a phone poll where people were asked
SWAG Update – Federal
April 17, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: This list requires reader participation to clean it up. I have reviewed the Federal Election Commission filings (several candidates have not filed any financial reports indicating that they may not be active candidates). I have also reviewed the Green Papers which in general is pretty accurate. http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G10/AZ "I" indicates incumbent. U.S. Senate Rodolfo
SWAG Update
April 17, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Time once again to update candidate filings. Time is running out boys and girls. The filing deadline is May 26, 2010. You can play along at home at http://www.azsos.gov/cfs/CommitteeSearch.aspx Since the last SWAG Update, Tucson Vice Mayor Rodney Glassman resigned from office to run for U.S. Senate. Nan Stockholm Walden decided not
Tea Party “Contract from America” is fiscal suicide
April 17, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I had to laugh when Sarah Palin cherry-picked a CBS News poll about Tea Party members being white, older, financially better-off (i.e., because of that "socialist" social security and Medicare life support) and "better educated" than the general public to assert that teabaggers are "above average" and have a "higher I.Q." than
Melvin offers second defenseless defense
April 17, 2010
by David Safier Yesterday I posted about Melvin's response to a takedown in the Republic criticizing his proposal to spend $200,000 in state funds to put vigilantes militia a Volunteer Security Force on the border to replace Melvin's beloved but defunct Minutemen. Melvin, I wrote, defended himself by saying we have an immigration problem. He
Papers Please! The Arizona Police State
April 17, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: David Safier was way too polite in his treatment of this issue. David Neiwert, a reporter who has written extensively about right-wing extremist groups has this post at crooksandliars.com. Papers Please: In attacking illegal immigration, Arizona transforms itself to a police state Well, you gotta figure that if crypto-fascist Sheriff Joe Arpaio
