AZ BlueMeanie

The Blue Meanie is an Arizona citizen who wishes, for professional reasons, to remain anonymous when blogging about politics. Armed with a deep knowledge of the law, politics and public policy, as well as pen filled with all the colors stolen from Pepperland, the Blue Meanie’s mission is to pursue and prosecute the hypocrites, liars, and fools of politics and the media – which, in practical terms, is nearly all of them. Don’t even try to unmask him or he’ll seal you in a music-proof bubble and rendition you to Pepperland for a good face-stomping.

I’m beginning to believe that Arizona’s Republican lawmakers really *don’t* understand the rule of law…

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By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings For the longest time, I thought that the lies and disinformation spouted by the Rs concerning AIRC were just that, lies and disinformation, and calculated to both rouse their base and to inoculate themselves from blame for not properly preparing for the redistricting process. I thought that while … Read more

Brewer’s Commerce Authority has barely started, but it is already wasting hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars…

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By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings The Arizona Commerce Authority, created by Governor Jan Brewer to replace the state's Commerce Department, was touted as a "public/private partnership" dedicated to bringing economic growth back to Arizona, and with it, jobs for all Arizonans. The Commerce Department, with its trained and experienced professionals, was deemed to be a failure … Read more

Corporate media double standard for town hall protests

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The corporate media had a love affair with the Koch brothers' corporate-funded Astroturf Tea Party front groups (Americans For Prosperity, FreedomWorks, Tea Party Express) in 2009-2010. They couldn't get enough of angry old white people calling an African-American president all kinds of racist names and questioning his birth, disrupting town hall meetings … Read more