AZ BlueMeanie Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Event notice from Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' office: DEFICIT REDUCTION TOWN HALL Presentation and discussion with leading experts on national budget policy You make the cuts * You make the budget Join the Conversation! June 30, 2011 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. University of Arizona Student Union Memorial Center North Ballroom … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: During the month of June 2011, Arizona has suffered its worst fires in history. Each year is more historic than the last. And yet the idiots in the Arizona legislature and our idiot governor authorized the sale of fireworks in Arizona in 2010. That move was opposed by every professional fire fighter … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Capitol Times reports that the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission has hired Washington, D.C.-based Strategic Telemetry as the commission's mapping consultant. Redistricting panel hires D.C.-based, Democratically connected mapping firm: Much as it did last month when it chose attorneys, the panel split 3-2 on the decision to hire Strategic Telemetry, a firm … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Daily Kos reports the good news out of Ohio today. Campaign to repeal Ohio's SB 5 delivers more than 1,000,000 signatures: The effort to get a referendum on Ohio's SB 5 needed 231,149 valid signatures from 44 counties. Today, pro-repeal groups marched in Columbus to deliver 1,298,301 petition signatures to the secretary … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Via Ezra Klein Tax rates and job creation in one graph: In theory, the GOP is so committed to resisting tax hikes because it’s so committed to creating jobs. “The fact is you can’t tax the very people that we expect to invest in the economy and create jobs,” says Speaker John … Read more