Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Arkansas Rep. Mike Ross (D) – woo pig sooie! – is the leader of the Blue Dog Coalition of conservative (not "centrist") Democrats. He has been caught feeding at the trough of sweetheart real estate deals with a Pharma campaign contributor. Now, these sweetheart real estate deals are hardly new nor limited … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Donald Ijams, a retired law enforcement planner who worked 28 years for the Tucson Police Department as a management analyst, penned this guest opinion today in the Arizona Daily Star. Inflexible Prop 200 creates bad public policy: The Public Safety First initiative on the Nov. 3 ballot mandates a major increase in … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Pima County Republican Party, the Tucson Association of Realtors, the Southern Arizona Home builders Association, and the Tucson Police Officers and Firefighters Associations are the principle sponsors of the Public Safety First Initiative (aka Prop. 200) which will appear on the City of Tucson November ballot. The initiative seeks to compel … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Republican plan for health care reform has nothing at all to do with health care per se. Republicans, including our own Senator McNasty, have trotted out the GOP Trojan Horse of "tort reform" – it's those "junk lawsuits" driving up medical costs! – as a panacea for reducing the cost of … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Republican plan for health care reform has nothing at all to do with health care per se. The GOP proposal du jour is to allow health insurance companies to engage in interstate sales of health insurance plans. This would require a "federal government takeover" of insurance regulation (interstate commerce). Insurance by … Read more