Jim Overmyer 
Photo source: William Hancock blog at Substack.com A major theme in the United States, that of “affordability,” the chances of the average American coping with rising prices, is being overwhelmed by the attention to the misbegotten Iran War. (We call it “Donald, Pete and Juan’s War” after the impulsive but confused president who started … Read more
Photo source: Reddit.com The campaign season is on. One indication is the sudden growth of candidate signs on Tucson street corners, including a wave of three-foot tall blue ones for Juan Ciscomani. Advertising is good for the subject of the ad, right? Well, maybe not so much, if you’re Juan Ciscomani, the endangered congressman … Read more
Pete Hegseth and Juan Ciscomani are buddies. But GasBuddy is not their buddy. We were going to write about Affordability, the mid-term election topic important to voters. But it turns out, one can’t write about Affordability without first addressing the Iran War. We call it Donald, Pete, and Juan’s War because Donald Trump mindlessly … Read more
Most of the election polling we see these days is done on the national level. Despite his fervent efforts to appear great and strong, Americans give Donald J. Trump abysmal ratings for his Presidential job performance, and they are steadily sinking to new depths. The polling site FiftyPlusOne, which combines many polls, has Trump’s average … Read more
Source: Congressman Ciscomani official Facebook page, with constituent comments Republican Representative Juan Ciscomani has a Facebook page. He posts to it regularly, more frequently now that the November election is looming over the horizon (and he has an energetic Democratic opponent, JoAnna Mendoza). Ciscomani’s postings are almost entirely “good news” photo ops of his meetings … Read more