Martha McSally

Pink Out Day

Planned Parenthood Supporters Fight Back: Pink Out Day, Sept 29

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Pink Out Day Republicans in Congress have been yammering for weeks about shutting down the US government — again— rather than compromise on a budget.

Since the Tea Party took over in 2010, their thing seems to be to throw temper tantrums until they either shut down the government or get their way on their issue du jour.

This time around, they want to shut down the government unless they are given a budget that defunds Planned Parenthood (PP). What do they have against affordable healthcare for women?! We are 51% of the US population. 

The deadline to sign a budget or shut down the government is September 30, 2015. That is why Planned Parenthood is sponsoring a national Pink Out Day on Tuesday, September 29. Planned Parenthood is asking supporters to wear pink, change their Facebook profile photo background to pink, attend a local rally, join the Twitter Thunderclap or share a #PinkOut selfie on social media. People are also being prompted to share their Planned Parenthood stories on FB. (Local event details after the jump.)

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Martha McSally ‘needs to get a better grasp of what it means to follow the rules’

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McSallyI previously posted about this: Questions for Martha McSally: What’s up with your FEC Reports?, and The FEC has some questions for Martha McSally.

The Arizona Republic finally got around to reporting the story this week. McSally’s donation report errors draw complaint.

The editors  of “The Arizona Republican” even published an editorial opinion critical of Martha McSally because she is embarrassing Republicans with her inability to comply with campaign finance laws like the rest of Arizona’s Congressional delegation. Our View: McSally must follow rules on reports:

The Republican lawmaker’s chronic inability to follow the Federal Election Commission’s rules for filing information about her campaign contributors is getting embarrassing.

It is reaching the point that it is difficult to ascribe the word “error” to her reports; this many failures begins to look intentional.

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Tea-Publicans in Congress are bereft of foreign policy grown ups

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When it comes to climate science denial, Tea-Publicans are all “I’m not a scientist, but...” But when it comes to nuclear non-proliferation, suddenly they all deem themselves to be “experts” in nuclear science.

See today’s op-ed from Rep. Martha McSally (R-AZ), a protégé of Neocon war monger and co-conspirator in the Bush-Cheney regime’s unnecessary and illegal war in Iraq, John Bolton. Martha McSally: A dangerous deal for America and our allies.

Iran-nuclear-deal-1024x576Serving in the U.S. Air Force does not make you a nuclear scientist or nuclear non-proliferation “expert,” Congresswoman. You would do better to admit “I’m not a scientist, but...” and listen to the actual experts — the overwhelming majority of whom support the Iran deal.

Republicans used to take foreign policy and diplomacy seriously; they always claimed that they were the adults or the “grown ups” in the room on foreign policy. But that was in the days before the Neocon intelligentsia of the Bush-Cheney regime came to town.

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Questions for Martha McSally: What’s up with your FEC reports?

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Chalkboard with Math ProblemDylan Smith at the Tucson Sentinel has been digging into Congresswoman Martha McSally’s FEC reporting, and finds a disturbing pattern of either gross incompetence or reckless indifference towards campaign finance reporting. There also seems to be some serious GOP “fuzzy math” going on.

Last week Dylan Smith reported Errors in McSally campaign reports add up to millions:

U.S. Rep. Martha McSally has raised a sizable war chest for 2016 — but nowhere near as big as what she has just claimed.

Filings by McSally just don’t add up. They have included a pattern of overstating her fundraising, with her latest report showing an apparently phantom total that is $3.3 million more than her actual campaign haul. Federal regulators have repeatedly knocked the Republican’s campaign for errors and incomplete reports.

McSally’s latest campaign finance paperwork was filed with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday, meeting a July 15 deadline. That filing claimed that McSally has raised a total of $5,633,681 in the current election cycle.

However, her reports only substantiate $2,343,608 in campaign contributions since last November’s election, leaving an unexplained difference of $3,290,000.

That’s some serious GOP “fuzzy math.” Is it possible that Rep. Paul Ryan’s dynamic scoring is now being used to create imaginary windfalls for GOP politicians in addition to his fantasy GOP budget numbers?

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