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.

‘The Koz’ is wrong: Independent voter turnout is up in the Tucson City Council Primary Election

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: One of the persistent World Net Daily Tea Party conspiracy theories is that vote-by-mail balloting in the Tucson City Council primary election will reduce independent voter turnout because many of them will have missed the deadline to request a ballot of the party in whose primary they wish to vote. Tea-Publicans enlisted their City … Read more

Terry Goddard to Tom Horne: Stop intimidation of the AIRC

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Former Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard and former Phoenix mayor Paul Johnson, chairman of the nonpartisan Open Government Committee, have a message for Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne today in an opinion in the Arizona Republic. Goddard and Johnson: Stop attacking redistricting commission: Arizona's Independent Redistricting Commission has the important task of … Read more

Tell Gov. Jan Brewer to follow the law

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Rep. Chad Campbell has a message for Gov. Jan Brewer (and "shadow governor" Chuck Coughlin, who runs the governor's office while at the same time his lobbying firm lobbies on behalf of private prison clients). One principle of governing is that elected leaders should follow the law.  It is a simple premise. In … Read more