Mike Hein: He’s your problem now, Chuck

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Back in April the Tucson City Council voted to fire its city manager, Mike Hein, for cause. Tucson City Manager Mike Hein fired; to get six months’ pay Hein was named city manager in April 2005. He also has served as a Deputy Pima County Administrator and had worked for Marana, Nogales … Read more

Will Goldwater Institute have to eat crow on this one?

by David Safier In case you missed it yesterday (between Blue Meanie's posts and mine, things move down the page pretty fast), I wrote about the possibility that the survey Matthew Ladner based three public/private school comparisons on was totally fabricated by Strategic Vision LLC, the company paid to do the survey. Suspicions about the … Read more

Sen. McNasty wants you to tear up your AARP membership card

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: KingofSpades posted this piece at Daily Kos: McCain finds his right-wing @ sshat. (with Poll) McCain has really gone off the deep end now into wingnut country.  On Friday a few days ago at a townhall, he asked people to cut up their AARP membership cards. * * * As everyone knows, … Read more

Sen. Russell Pearce: Laws are for other people to obey

Posted by azBlueMeanie: Craig at Random Musings posted this all too accurate description of Sen. Russell Pearce Random Musings: When you outlaw laws, only outlaws will have laws: Russell Pearce likes to tout himself as a "rule of law" type, but it seems that his enthusiasm for obedience to the laws of the state and … Read more