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.

CD 7 and CD 8 Count Update

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Secretary of State's web site was last updated 11/4/2010 12:13:17 PM. Congressional District 7   Congressional District 8   As you can see, Congressman Grijalva has approximately a 4,000 vote lead and Congresswoman Giffords has approximately a 2,300 vote lead. Pima County Democratic Party Chairman Jeff Rogers says that he … Read more

Lame-Duck Special Session Looming

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Just as I predicted when the Legislature enacted the "Jan Sham Budget" earlier this year with the GOP gimmicks of Props. 301 and 302 to "balance" the state budget, voters resoundingly rejected these propositions by approximately 70% of the vote — exposing the "sham" of Jan Brewer's "balanced" budget. Tuesday's defeat of … Read more

The “shadow governor” – Sen. Russell Pearce

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I flagged a comment Jim Nintzel reported in his election night coverage at the Tucson Weekly. Sen. Al Melvin (LD 26) said, "We have a historic thing happening where we're going to have a veto-proof Arizona Senate with over 20 out of 30 Republicans, and we think a veto-proof Arizona House with … Read more

Descent Into Madness

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The 49th Arizona Legislature is the most recklessly incompetent and fiscally irresponsible Republican-dominated legislature in the history of Arizona, without equal. Led by our Accidental Governor, Jan Brewer, it is the only Arizona Legislature to fail to balance the state budget by July 1 in each of the last two years, as … Read more