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 GOP war on public employees: Special Session coming

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I have told you about Frank Antenori's secret plan to end civil service merit selection system for county employees, and Craig gave you a preview of Coming Attractions: A "special" session of the legislature to turn every state job into a political patronage job. The only solid reporting on Jan Brewer's behemoth … Read more

Time to update the Arizona constitution: A few modest proposals

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By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings. Apologies for the delay in posting this one here – turns out that venting isn't good for my speeling.  Had to correct a bunch of typos first.  Hope I caught them all. 🙂   This state is in serious trouble, the kind of trouble that won't be cleaned up for generations … Read more

Blog for AZ issues a challenge: If you think you can do a better job of running this city, then you run for office and let the voters decide

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: "Of course you realize, this means war!"— Groucho Marx, then later Bugs Bunny I have had enough of the constant bashing of the City of Tucson by its local daily newspaper, the Arizona Daily Star. Ever since Lee Enterprises bought what was once a great local newspaper, the Star has degenerated into … Read more

Andrei Cherny responds to the Arizona Republic on the ‘birther bill’

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I told you about the Arizona Republic's bizarre editorial taking Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and Arizona Democratic Party Chair Andrei Cherny to task for not being "gracious enough" for Gov. Brewer's veto of the "birther bill," and then making a false equivalency between their impolitic statements and the nuttiness of the "Birthers, Birchers and … Read more