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.

First hearing on public employee pensions today in Arizona legislature

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Senate today will consider major changes to three public-pension systems with a bill that would force police, firefighters, politicians and corrections officers to pay more to fund their retirements and suspend cost-of-living raises for retirees. Arizona Senate set to consider big changes to pensions: Senate Bill 1609 would improve the … Read more

Arizona’s Neoconfederate Insurrectionists Vote to Nullify the 14th Amendment And Join a Confederacy

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I am sure our squishy-soft Sally Sensitive political reporters will take exception to the above caption, but truth be told, this is in essence what occurred on Tuesday in the Senate Appropriations Committee. Arizona's Senate Appropriations Committee "became the first state legislative committee in the nation to pass a package of bills intended … Read more

The Farley Report – February 22, 2011

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Time once again for the Farley Report from Rep. Steve Farley (D-LD 28): The most important object on my desk on the House floor is my grandmother's Bible. It was given to her when she was 11 by her mother, a few months before she lost her mother to the 1918 outbreak … Read more

Pearce’s latest anti-immigrant screed passes committee

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By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings After more than two hours of discussion, and by a 7 – 6 vote, the Senate Appropriations Committee has approved SB1611, Russell Pearce's latest effort to one-up last year's SB1070. The four Democrats on the committee, Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, David Schapira, Paula Aboud, and Olivia Cajero-Bedford, were joined by Republican … Read more

Some pics from the early part of the day at the Legislature

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By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings The Senate Appropriations hearing is underway, and I am in the overflow room (SHR1). They haven't gotten to the "good" bills yet, but here are a few pics from earlier in the day – The targets of Russell Pearce's bills… Senate hearing room cordoned off by police, who … Read more