It’s so crazy it just might work!

by David Safier From a post on Daily Kos: Call Their Bluff! Tie CEO pay in the U.S. to CEO pay in Europe and Japan: In 1950, the average pay of an S&P 500 CEO was less than 30 times that of an average U.S. worker; by 1980, prior to the "Reagan Revolution, the average pay … Read more

The latest on Deposit-gate

by David Safier Here's an email from Tasha Downum in response to my question, "Any more word from Vic or his 'people?'": nothin yet.. šŸ™ no email, no phone calls.. nothing If you've been following the recent installments in the saga of the $400 rental deposit Republican Vic Williams (LD-26) didn't return to Tasha, an … Read more

Southern Insurrection: Destroying The Big 3 to Kill The UAW

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Eugene Robinson noted in a recent column that the Republican Party has positioned itself as being against unions, against America's domestic auto industry, against the blue-collar middle class — and also, incredibly, against the Rust Belt states that are home to UAW-represented auto plants and that also regularly tip the balance in … Read more

Tucson to Jonathan Paton: Don’t Tread on Me!

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Ah, senator-elect Jonathan Paton (R-Dist. 30) is up to his old tricks again. Paton is in the business of "gimmicks-R-us" to generate news ink to keep his name in the newspapers. (Unfortunately, I will have to indulge his narcissism once more here.) Who could forget when Paton got the vapors and his … Read more