Where did Gila Courier get that phony op ed?

by David Safier Tedski makes a good point at R-cubed. The conservative Gila Courier — self titled "Arizona's leading political news site" — put a bogus version of an op ed on its site, an adulterated version of the one Lisa Suarez wrote for the Star praising Prop 200. I commented yesterday that it showed … Read more

Lyin’ Joe’s Blowin’ Smoke

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: If Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) had followed my advice after the election last November, Joe Lieberman (the party of me! – CT) would have found himself stripped of any committee chairmanships and his Senate office would have been reassigned to the janitor's closet of the Hart Office Building. The janitors … Read more

Gila Courier and blogger/journalistic integrity

by David Safier The Gila Courier, a right wing blog/news site (take your pick) printed what it thought was a version of an op ed Lisa Suarez published in the Star saying people should vote for Prop 200. The version on the Courier site had Suarez making a comment implying City Manager Mike Letcher drinks … Read more

On Political Apathy

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Bob Herbert, columnist for the New York Times, continues his excellence in journalism with this opinion Changing the World: [For context, the opinion is framed around the history of the Civil Rights Movement and Andrew Goodman, Michael Shwerner and James Chaney, the three civil rights workers who were murdered by the Ku … Read more

Face Off on Arizona Illustrated discusses propositions, Tucson election

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Commentators Bruce Ash and Vince Rabago weigh in on the City of Tucson election and the Propositions. Vince Rabago brings his A-game and destroys the bogus arguments of GOP National Commiteeman Bruce Ash, who is also the chief financial backer of the Tucson Vision Committee The Vision Thing: Independent Campaign Donors Revealed which is running false attack ads on television. For more about Mr. Ash's smear campaign see GOP culture war smear campaign reduced to Ash.

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