Some may have seen the guest opinion in today’s Tucson Citizen announcing the Drinking Liberally / Smoking Conservatively Summit this Thursday starting at 6pm at the Shanty on 4th Avenue and 9th Street: Partisanship has acquired a bad name of late. It’s become closely associated with the name-calling, character assassination, fear mongering and actively misleading … Read more
"It’s like Hitler just invaded France," said a source in the moderate wing of the Pima County Republican Party of Joe Higgin’s likely primary challenge of Ann Day for Supervisor in District 1. That’s not just Godwin’s law in effect; my source only meant that a war that everyone knew was coming, and that many … Read more
Mr. Huckelberry: I got wind of your latest memo on election security [pdf download] by reading about it in a Tucson Citizen article. Given that you mentioned my name in the memo, I would have expected to receive a courtesy copy of the memo. Maybe my copy went astray. On page 14 of your memo … Read more
Posted by: AzBlueMeanie I am pleased that GOP Spartan agrees that the "McClinton Gas Tax Holiday Gimmick" is a bad idea and recognizes that the Bush administration’s weak dollar policy and reckless fiscal mismanagement of our economy, including the doubling of our national debt over 7 years, is largely responsible for our present economic condition. … Read more
Posted by: AzBlueMeanie (Artwork courtesy of BuzzFlash.org The John McCain for President, Hillary Clinton for Vice President War Party Fusion Ticket | BuzzFlash.org) Sen. John McCain has proposed a gas tax holiday for this summer, suspending the 18.4 cent-per-gallon federal gasoline excise tax and the 24.4 cent-per-gallon federal excise tax on diesel fuel between Memorial … Read more