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.

Redistricting Update: Linda McNulty, lawyer from Tucson, appointed to AIRC

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by Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings Senator David Schapira, leader of the Democratic caucus in the Arizona Senate, today announced his selection for the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission (AIRC) via Facebook - … I am pleased to announce I have selected Linda McNulty as the final legislative appointment to the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission. Linda … Read more

Senate SWAG Update

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: In a state run by fringe lunatics, I suppose it's only appropriate that some flake is running for the U.S. Senate. Rep. Jeff Flake, that is. The former executive director of the Goldwater Institute (anyone associated with this pain-in-the-ass bad government think tank should be prohibited by law from ever holding public office), became the first … Read more

Update: Pimps for Private Prisons and Profit

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Well, what did you expect? This is what happens when state government is a wholly owned subsidiary of corporate lobbyists. Despite a bipartisan outcry last summer after three inmates escaped from a private prison near Kingman, bills to increase state oversight of for-profit corrections companies can't get a legislative hearing. Arizona private prison oversight … Read more

The GOP’s double dose of poison to kill Arizona

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: On Monday, Governor Grim Reaper called a special session for the purpose of passing a so-called "jobs bill" (a modifed version of Rep. Kirk Adam's corporate welfare tax giveaway plan from last year) secretly negotiated between our lame-duck governor, our de facto governor, Sen. Russell Pearce, and House Speaker Kirk Adams (aka … Read more

More Catfood Commission nonsense from the the media villagers

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I was watching the presidential press conference this morning when Chuck Todd (NBC/MSNBC), whom I consider to be an idiot, asked the president about his fiscal commission (aka Catfood Commission), asserting that the commission reached a "majority consensus" on recommendations, so why doesn't the president's budget contain the commission's recommendations? (I am … Read more