Southern Arizona Tea-Publicans, enablers for the state of Maricopa
October 10, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Our Southern Arizona Tea-Publican enablers for our colonial overlords from the state of Maricopa have been hating on the City of Tucson and Pima County for years, trying to subjugate its "librul guvmint."
They have micromanaged Pima County and the City of Tucson:
- Imposed a Rio Nuevo Board appointed by our colonial overlords from the state of Maricopa; their appointees proved to be as incompetent as the board members they replaced. State of Maricopa appointed Rio Nuevo District Board is costing taxpayers for litigation (the "troika" of John Munger, Jodi Bain and Jonathan "Payday" Paton, Josh Brodesky: Rio Nuevo is troika's plaything);
- Sought to dictate new election rules on the Charter City of Tucson (Arizona Supreme Court unanimously rejects 'Paton's Law'), and Ted "tort reform" Vogt tried to slip in the Vogt floor amendment to an election bill (SB 1331) that would have benefitted his brother the Phisher King, Tyler, Vogt, in his (failed) city council bid;
- Sought to impose new rules for contract bids for government services (SB 1332) and limit the ability of cities to impose impact fees on developers (SB 1525);
- Sought to eliminat the civil service merit selection system for Pima County employees Frank Antenori's secret plan to end civil service merit selection system for county employees;
- Stole millions of dollars from state revenue sharing and HURF funds to "balance" the state budget leaving us without enough money to even fill our potholes. Now the City of Tucson is forced into a bond election (Prop. 409) to repair its streets $100M bond to fix local streets deserves support;
- Confiscated a wastewater treatment facility from Pima County to hand over to the Town of Marana (represented by Jonathan "Payday" Paton) without just compensation to Pima County Disputed treatment plant goes to Marana;
- Ted "tort reform" Vogt and his idiot sidekick Vic Williams showed up at the Pima County Board of Supervisors and tried to intimidate the board over fund sweeps by the legislature State lawmaker calls Tucson a "corpse" and Pima County taxpayers dig deep to pay for state cuts;
- Sought to impose a new authority that would give Marana, Oro Valley and Sahuarita, together, veto power over new borrowing for roads and other projects in Pima County Panel would let 3 towns veto county bonds.
The list goes on and on.
Tom Horne is looking dirtier and dirtier
October 10, 2012
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by David Safier Tom Horne hired the woman who ran an Independent Expenditure campaign for him — an IE he may have been too closely connected with — despite questions about her qualifications. He was involved in a hit-and-run accident while another employee, who, it's said, he's carried on a long term sexual relationship with, … Read more
Jobs, Jack Welch, And The Not So Liberal Press
October 10, 2012
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Posted by Bob Lord So, the Wall Street Journal chose to give scumbag Jack Welch a platform from which to double down. You can read it here. Apparently, Welch's only remorse was that he didn't include question marks after his October 5th tweet recklessly accusing the President of manipulating the jobs numbers. Yeah right, Jack. … Read more
Completely wrong
October 10, 2012
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by David Safier I have no idea how someone makes this kind of thing happen, but here's a screen shot of what you get when you type "completely wrong" in Google Images. Hat tip to Donna Gratehouse.
Vote counting machines flip races in Florida
October 10, 2012
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by David Safier Florida uses paper ballots,and the results are tallied by an optical scan election system. Sample auditing of the ballots is done after the elections are certified. In two recent races, the machines flipped the votes, awarding the victories to the wrong candidates. According to Palm Beach Supervisor of Elections, Susan Bucher, this … Read more
Bill Clinton: ‘Where you been boy? I missed you all these last two years’
October 10, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Nothing is more effective in political speech than mockery. And nobody uses it more effectively than President Bill Clinton.
At this campaign event in Nevada, President Bill Clinton destroys the shameless shapeshifter "Moderate Massachusetts Mitt."
"I thought, wow. Here's old moderate Mitt. Where you been boy? I missed you all these last two years." As Clinton points out, the media villagers' attempt to recast a new "Moderate Massachusetts Mitt" after the debate is a fraud. Romney is still the "severely conservative" Republican he claimed to be for the past two years.
Video below the fold. H/T Talkingpointsmemo.
The Bain of his existence: Romney’s money making ties to China and Russia
October 10, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Two investigative reports out today on Bain Capital and how Romney profited from business ties of which he has been critical on the campaign trail.
The New York Times reports Romney’s Trade Message and Bain’s China Ties:
[T]here is a twist to the Asimco story that would not fit neatly into a Romney stump speech: Since 2010, it has been owned by Bain Capital, the private equity firm founded by Mr. Romney, who has as much as $2.25 million invested in three Bain funds with large stakes in Asimco and at least seven other Chinese businesses, according to his 2012 candidate financial disclosure and other documents.
That and other China-related holdings by Bain funds in which Mr. Romney has invested are a reminder of how he inhabits two worlds that at times have come into conflict during his campaign for the White House.
As a candidate, Mr. Romney uses China as a punching bag. He accuses Beijing of unfairly subsidizing Chinese exports, artificially holding down the value of its currency to keep exports cheap, stealing American technology and hacking into corporate and government computers.
“How is it China’s been so successful in taking away our jobs?” he asked recently. “Well, let me tell you how: by cheating.”
But his private equity dealings, both while he headed Bain and since, complicate that message.
Mr. Romney’s campaign insists he has no control over his investments since they are held in a blind trust. That said, a confidential prospectus for one of the Bain funds, obtained by The New York Times, promotes China as a good investment for some of the same reasons that Mr. Romney has said concern him: “Strong fundamentals” like manufacturing wages 85 percent lower than what Americans earn, vast foreign exchange reserves and the likelihood that China will surpass the United States as the world’s largest economy.
“Accordingly, Bain Capital expects to see an increasing array of high-growth companies available for investment,” the prospectus says, noting the relative dearth of private equity in China.
Among the companies in which the Bain funds have invested is a global auto parts maker that is in the process of closing a factory in Illinois and moving most of the equipment and jobs to Jiangsu Province, where the Chinese government has built it a new plant; a Chinese electronics retailer accused by Microsoft of selling computers with pirated software; and a Hong Kong-based Chinese appliance maker that was sued for copying another company’s design for a deep-fat fryer.
Obama campaign ad: ‘Only Choice’
October 10, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
I have posted about the Romney plan for Medicaid that President Bill Clinton addressed in his DNC convention speech. Romney's Medicaid cuts would be devastating to nursing home care and the disabled. Almost two-thirds of Medicaid is spent on nursing home care for seniors and on people with disabilities. (The Congressional Budget Office estimates that 63.5 percent – or $148 billion – of federal Medicaid spending ($251 billion in total) goes towards the elderly, blind and disabled.)
The Romney plan for Medicaid affects "dual eligibles," and would be devastating to nursing home care for the elderly, which many families simply cannot afford without Medicare and Medicaid. Bloomberg News reported Medicaid to Lose $1.26 Trillion Under Romney Block Grant – Bloomberg.
The Obama campaign is up with a new ad on this issue, entitled "Only Choice." From the ad description:
"It's one of the hardest decisions a family can make …realizing a nursing home is the only choice. For many middle class families, Medicaid is the only way to afford the care. But as a governor, Mitt Romney raised nursing home fees eight times. And as President, his budget cuts Medicaid by one-third. And Burdens families with the cost of nursing home care. We have a president who won't let that happen."
Video below the fold.
