Scrooge or Santa? Your call, Vic
by David Safier State Representative Vic Willams (R, LD-26) in the holiday spirit.
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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.. š 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
A tax on sugar water
by David Safier (TASL) Nicholas Kristof has a great column this morning about a proposed 18% tax in New York on soft drinks with sugar and other nondiet sugary beverages. The reasoning is, sugar water doesn't curb your appetite. It actually increases it. So sugared beverages are as much or more of a contributor to … Read more