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 coming week: Legislative edition

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by Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings As usual, all info gathered from online sources, mostly the website of the Arizona Legislature, and subject to change without notice.  While there are more active committee agendas than last week, they're still short enough for both the Senate's and the House's work to be combined into one … Read more

Breaking: Sen. Scott Bundgaard involved in a domestic violence incident

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By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings From the Arizona Republic – Scott Bundgaard, R-Peoria, the majority leader of the Arizona state Senate, was briefly taken into custody with marks on his body Saturday, indicating he had been involved in a fight, an act of domestic violence, Phoenix police officers said. Sgt. Tommy Thompson said … Read more

Ronald Reagan: one of the most elemental human rights is the right to belong to a free trade union

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I really resent the fact how extremists on the right today invoke a revisionist and fictitious false idol of Ronald Reagan as their justification for doing the most outrageous and most extreme things in his name. This false idol they worship (they may want to recheck the Second Commandment) is nothing at all like the complex … Read more

Nonpartisan organization ‘US Uncut’ to demand corporations pay taxes

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: One of the favorite talking points of the right is that we have to lower corporate tax rates to make our state or country more economically competitive in the World. In fact, the Arizona legislature just approved lowering corporate tax rates in Arizona based upon this theory. Corporate tax rates are largely irrelevant when … Read more

Gov. Scott Walker’s Wisconsin Lie Exposed

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: NOTE: The following report should cause public employee pension fund managers and trustees, Arizona legislators, and knowledgable financial reporters to reexamine the facts and numbers asserted in the multi-part investigative report on Arizona's public employee pensions by The Arizona Republic from several weeks ago that relied heavily upon research and liberal use of quotations … Read more