Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Earlier this year, our comic "hero" (sic) Cap'n Al Melvin (R-LD 26) sponsored legislation to expand the Pinal County Board of Supervisors from three members to five members, years before this will happen anyway in 2012 after the 2010 census, because "Republicans shouldn't have to wait that long to get a board" … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Rhonda Bodfield of the Arizona Daily Star has a report today about the faux outrage coming from the Tucson Tea Party over being "slandered" by the use of the term "teabagger." Potential sexual slur in release raises Tea Partiers' ire; Uhlich apologizes This is known as manufacturing a story from nothing. Let me help … Read more
by David Safier I have to admit I'm a bit amazed by this. The Republic's Ronald Hansen and Pat Kossan have picked up the story of School Tuition Organizations (STOs) handling corporate tuition tax credit money not giving out the required 90% of the contributions they receive as scholarships. The reason the STOs give is … Read more
by David Safier Tedski makes a good point at R-cubed. The conservative Gila Courier — self titled "Arizona's leading political news site" — put a bogus version of an op ed on its site, an adulterated version of the one Lisa Suarez wrote for the Star praising Prop 200. I commented yesterday that it showed … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: If Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) had followed my advice after the election last November, Joe Lieberman (the party of me! – CT) would have found himself stripped of any committee chairmanships and his Senate office would have been reassigned to the janitor's closet of the Hart Office Building. The janitors … Read more