Arizona Democratic Party: Gov. Brewer, do your job!
August 10, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Press release from the Arizona Democratic Party: Gov. Brewer, do your job! Protect Arizona and stop playing politics with special sessions STATE CAPITOL – As Arizona struggles with several crises, Gov. Brewer has called the Legislature into an urgent special session on … union voting methods. This waste of time and resources
Update II: The new corporate business model: increase profits, not jobs
August 10, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Update to The new corporate business model: increase profits, not jobs (Harold Meyerson, Washington Post) and UPDATE: The new corporate business model: increase profits, not jobs (Bob Herbert, New York Times). Bob Herbert of the New York Times continues to be the voice for the forgotten unemployed in this country with today's
Update: What 30 years of faith based supply-side “trickle down” GOP economics hath wrought
August 10, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Update to an earlier post, What 30 years of faith based supply-side "trickle down" GOP economics hath wrought. Make no mistake: the current Republican leadership in Congress wants the U.S. economy to fail. Republicans are actively working to undermine every attempt to revive the economy and to restore economic growth and job
House Democrats on special session, prison security
August 10, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: H/t Arizona Guardian Attorney General Terry Goddard and Democratic lawmakers are blasting Republican Gov. Jan Brewer over public safety. Dems blast Brewer in wake of escape: Even members of Brewer's own party said Monday they were concerned about what led to the escape of three violent inmates from a privately run facility
9th Special Session: proceeding according to the script
August 9, 2010
Posted by Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings thought about doing some live-blogging from the lege today, but that thought was dispelled rather quickly, once I realized that was more effort than this "special" session merits. Perhaps the highlight of the day was Rep. David Schapira's (D-Tempe) introduction of his and his wife Rosemary's new baby daughter, Elliot
Huppenthal either says too much, or purposely dog whistles exactly what he means
August 9, 2010
by David Safier For me, this one of those . . . Wow, just Wow! . . . stories, and Steve Nuñez of KGUN9 deserves credit for reporting it so well. John Huppenthal has a campaign radio ad in which, according to Nuñez, the announcer declares John Huppenthal, '"One of us." Who is "us"? The
Campaign Sign Snark 2010: John Huppenthal
August 9, 2010
By Jenn For many voters, their first and most viceral exposure to a candidate is via the campaign signs posted on street corners and abandoned lots. These signs are the face of a campaign, and are responsible for generating a voter's first impression of a candidate. Campaign Sign Snark is an ongoing feature that will comment exclusively
Questions of Homophobia from Rodney Glassman Raised in The Advocate
August 9, 2010
By Jenn Rodney Glassman and Karen Uhlich on Arizona Illustrated, from the Tucson Citizen. Rodney Glassman, who is running for John McCain's Senate seat, made headlines this past weekend. And not in a good way. It turns out that back in 2007, when Glassman was running for Tucson City Council, he was asked at a
