First web ad for Matt Heinz

February 9, 2012

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

I happened to catch Rep. Matt Heinz (D-LD 29) in an interview on Wednesday's "MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts," talking about his campaign for the Giffords seat, among other topics. I cannot find the video of this interview to post.

But the first web ad for Matt Heinz is up on YouTube, and is posted below the fold.

Press Conference/Rally For the Recall of Jan Brewer

February 9, 2012

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

I have been hesitant to post about the latest effort to recall our Red Queen, Jan Brewer, not because I disagree with the sentiment but because such a massive undertaking has to be led by a strong organization with a proven track record of success and the ability to raise tons of money in short order for what will be a costly effort. Last year's recall effort was not serious because it entirely lacked this capacity.

A recall is also a distraction that takes volunteers and money away from what I see as far more criticial at this juncture: winning legislative seats, a senate seat, congressional seats, and defeating right-wing measures headed for the ballot in November. Randy Parraz at Citizens for a Better Arizona independently came to the same conclusion.

Nothing personal, but Leonard Clark, a Phoenix area activist, is not the person to be leading a recall effort against Jan Brewer. Mr. Clark has a bad habit of filing recalls against politicians with whom he disagrees that never amount to anything but a statement of protest. (He has also filed a recall against U.S. Senator Jon Kyl, who is not subject to recall and is out the door in January 2013).

That being said, last Friday Leonard Clark filed a recall initiative against Governor Jan Brewer, RC-01-2012. The Committee to Recall Jan Brewer will have until June 2, 2012 to collect 432,021 valid signatures to force a recall election. Click here for full text of initiative: PDF.

A Press conference and rally to recall Jan Brewer is scheduled for this Saturday, February 11, at 10:00 a.m. at Wesley Bolin Plaza (state capitol grounds). The Facebook event announcement is below the fold:

Santorum sweep shatters Romney’s ‘electability’

February 8, 2012

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Following his win in the Florida primary, the conventional wisdom of the media villagers and Beltway bloviators was that Willard "Mittens" Romney now had a clear path through GOP primaries and caucuses in February on his way to "Super Tuesday" in March, and the GOP nomination.

This is the problem with a corporate media that parrots GOP establishment talking points. Saying it over and over again doesn't make it so. The corporate media's "conventional wisdom" is almost always wrong.

On Tuesday, Rick "man on dog" Santorum swept caucuses in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado (albeit non-binding caucuses). Even without committed delegates, however, Santorum's sweep of caucuses that "front-runner" Romney had been expected to win shatters his "electability" as the GOP nominee.

Romney won Minnesota four years ago. He even had his vanquished opponent, former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty "of nuthin'," working the state for him and he got creamed. Pawlenty is finished as a politician. It was another embarrassing loss for "Mittens" in Missouri. And every political pundit had given Romney Colorado in advance based upon the strength of a supposed "Mormon vote," yet he lost Colorado as well. Triple victory for Santorum again upends GOP presidential race – The Washington Post.

"Electability" was the only selling point that Romney had throughout the GOP primary process, that he could claim he is the most electable against President Obama. That is now gone after losing five primary contests, four to Santorum and one to Gingrich. Romney has nothing else to offer Tea-Publican voters who always questioned his conservative credentials in the first place. 

As I have said before, the more voters get to know "Mittens" Romney, the more they do not like him. Greg Sargent has Romney's upside-down negative numbers in Thumbs down for Romney. (See Update below).

Tea-Publicans may now feel liberated to turn to conservative "purity" between Santorum and Gingrich. The GOP establishment is about to go into full panic mode as GOP strategist Steve Schmidt predicted a couple of weeks ago.

Our colonial overlords are trying to subjugate Pima County and steal our water

February 8, 2012

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: This is the West. Wars are fought over water, even reclaimed water from sewage treatment plants. Every drop of water is more precious than gold. Which is why the Town of Marana, represented by lobbyist Jonathan "Payday" Paton, has been trying to steal a Pima County sewage treatment plant from Pima County without paying … Read more

Shorter Santorum: Obama is uppity

February 8, 2012

by David Safier The Republican racist dog whistles continue. It wasn't too long ago when black employees had to think twice about making a suggestion to their white employers and managers. Say the wrong thing, and they were likely to hear, "Do you think you're smarter than me, boy? Do you think you know better … Read more

Action Alert: AIRC under assault today in the Senate

February 8, 2012

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Senate Committee on Government Reform has a long agenda beginning at 9:00 a.m. today, but among the bills under consideration are two bills that are part of the Tea-Publican assault on the Arizona Independent Redistricitng Commission. SB 1489 would Increase the scope of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission to require the AIRC to … Read more