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The Al Melvin debate bamboozle continues
July 14, 2010
by David Safier First Al Melvin said he wouldn't have any extra debates with Cheryl Cage. The one Clean Elections debate, which won't happen until we're in the General, is all he can fit in, he said. He's too busy knocking on doors. Then he said in his recent email newsletter (SENATOR AL MELVIN’S JULY
Arizona Daily Star issues a challenge to Sen. Jon Kyl
July 14, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The editors of the Arizona Daily Star have joined this blog in our outrage over Sen. Jon Kyl's caricature of the unemployed as lazy, unmotivated slackers who should get off the couch and go out and get a job. From today's editorial Unemployed Arizonans snubbed by Kyl: Consider the life of a
SB1070 Update: Encourage tourism with SB1070 “fact sheet,” astroturf
July 14, 2010
by David Safier This is pretty amusing. Brewer put together a tourism task force to try and bring tourists back to Arizona after SB1070 chased them away and Brewer worked her magic by telling people they're going to be kidnapped and beheaded unless they transport drugs for the Mexican mafia, or something like that. My
More from Steve Gall on school recess
July 14, 2010
by David Safier The latest from Steve Gall, the Recess Doctor: Kudos to Zohreh Saunders, grandmother and reading tutor at Dunham Elementary School for 4 years, for speaking on behalf of a 30 minute/day recess program in the elementary schools at the TUSD Governing Board meeting. We are trying to convince them to mandate this
Buz Mills quits the race
July 14, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Buz Mills appeared to have all the right stuff to be a contender in the GOP primary for governor in the current GOP political environment. He is a political outsider, not a career politician. He is a fiscal conservative who drinks the Kool-Aid of supply-side trickle-down economics by the gallon and is
Another Headshaker Headline
July 14, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Today's entry for headshaker headline is an AP article in the East Valley Tribune. State Treasurer Dean Martin: Fall cash-flow crisis averted – East Valley Tribune: State Treasurer Dean Martin says Arizona will avert a possible cash flow crisis this fall. Martin says that's possible because Gov. Jan Brewer's budget office plans
Arizona Illustrated Debate: Democratic candidates for Superintendent of Public Instruction
July 14, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Penny Kotterman and Jason Williams, Democratic candidates for Superintendent of Public Instruction, debate on Arizona Illustrated.
CCEC Debate: LD 27 Democratic House Candidates
July 13, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: LD 27 Democratic House candidates John Bernal. Eric Carbajal Bustamante, Dustin Cox, Bob Gilby, Sally Ann Gonzales, Sami Hamed, John Kromko, and Macario Saldate debate.
