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.

Then they came for the trade unionists…

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: William Rivers Pitt writes an essay on the exact same thing I was thinking as I was watching the coup d'etat in Wisconsin on Wednesday. Then They Came for the Trade Unionists: On this day, it behooves us to remember the words of Martin Niemoller. "First they came for the communists," he wrote, "and I didn't speak out … Read more

Maricopa County Losing Influence*

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By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings * Maricopa County is still Arizona's "big dog" and is still growing, but AZ's other "dogs" grew more from 2000 to 2010.  Given that the overall "pie" of Arizona didn't get any bigger, that means that Maricopa is getting a slightly smaller part of that pie. Over a … Read more

Arizona’s census data released

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By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings I'm still sorting through the data – it's available on the Census website as three very large zipped files and is a bit of a pain in the _ _ _ to work with. However, Ronald Hansen of the Arizona Republic already has a story up.  It contains … Read more

Jan Brewer’s ‘states rights’ nod to insurrectionist secessionists

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: A defiant Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer told Southeast Valley business and political leaders on Wednesday that she would press her campaign against "an over-reaching federal government" until the feds back off. Spend too much time with the Alaska Disasta over the weekend? Governor Brewer brings 'federalism' message to Mesa: Brewer also struck … Read more