Who woulda guessed?
April 29, 2009
by David SafierYou know that Republican budget plan to sweep $210 million from city impact fees I posted about last night? You'll never guess where the idea came from. A legislative plan to balance the state budget by stripping cities of $210 million collected from developers is actually coming from the people who have been
Voters: No education cuts, temporary taxes OK
April 29, 2009
by David SafierArizona is going to be an interesting place for the next few months, maybe all the way to November, 2010. "Interesting," of course, is a two-edged sword. It makes for lots of good blogging, but "May you live in interesting times" is usually thought of as more of a curse than a blessing.
The gang that couldn’t get anything straight
April 28, 2009
by David SafierSo the Republicans have come out with a budget proposal. Though they say it's not a real budget, just a bunch of ideas they're throwing around. But even as ideas, some of these things are so loony, the great minds behind the plans are already in the process of taking them back. One
Minnesota Voters to Sore Loser Coleman: “Concede”
April 28, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: h/t politicalbase.com Voters Tell Coleman To Concede Two new Minnesota polls reveal that its state's voters want former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) to concede his narrow loss to Al Franken (D), believe the election was fully fair, don't approve of his continued legal appeals, and want to be fully represented in the
Let me count the ways
April 28, 2009
by David SafierWhere do I start with Cap'n Al Melvin's op ed in the Star? From start to finish, it's a hodgepodge of talking points without connections. There are so many ways to go after what he says, it's hard to know where to start. My overall statement about the piece is, Huh? I guess
The Republican shrinkage problem
April 28, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: No, I am not referring to a classic episode of Seinfeld where George Costanza gets caught with his swimsuit down. From Chris Cillizza's The Fix blog The Republican Shrinkage Problem: The new Washington Post/ABC news poll has all sorts of intriguing numbers in it but when you are looking for clues as
Kavanagh: Make the poor pay, it’s good for them
April 28, 2009
by David SafierThat's what happens when you go away for a few days (I'm back, by the way). You have to endure the shame of linking to Tedski for an education-related story. It wasn't supposed to be this way! But you gotta do what you gotta do. John Kavanagh, who is in the running for
Snarlin’ Arlen Specter: the GOP abandoned me, so I’m joining the Democratic Party
April 28, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The big news today for the Beltway bloviators and media villagers is that Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) announced that the Republican Party has abandoned moderate Republicans like him for the Club for Growth (Grover Norquist) conservatives. "There ought to be a rebellion, there ought to be an uprising" against these Club for
