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 ‘Undesirable’ Voters

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: "King" Russell Pearce gets a lot of media attention for his anti-immigrant hate mongering. But one of his early "successes" (sic) was Prop. 200 in 2004, which required that voters be able to produce both identification and proof of citizenship prior to being allowed to vote in any election. This was a … Read more

Krugman: The Truth About Pensions

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: What Paul said. The Truth About Pensions – NYTimes.com: Dean Baker has a deeply enlightening analysis of state pension shortfalls (pdf), containing a lot of stuff I didn’t know. The basic moral is that the official story these days — of years and years of huge giveaways to unions, resulting in gigantic, … Read more

Unions are critical to the survival of the American middle class

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Tea-Publican plan is simple: kill the unions, and thus kill the American middle class. "All hail the new serfdom of the corporatocracy and our benign (sic) plutocratic leaders!" These batshit crazy loons hate government (and by government I mean "We the People" democracy) so much so that they would rather trade democracy … Read more

Arizona Legislature week in review

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By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings For lege-watchers, it was a colorful week, with a LOT of bad bills gaining passage in one of the chambers, and one going to the governor… …State Sen. Scott Bundgaard's domestic violence incident kept him in the news all week, as did the fact that he used legislative … Read more