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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: When you listen to last night's debate you will have to listen carefully or you may miss it. At one point Jan Brewer asserts that she was put in power by God to save the state from......
Blog For Arizona - 9:05 a.m.
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Wow. I can't believe what I just watched, it was just ... Wow. Now you all know why Jan Brewer will not agree to a series of debates. She does not want the public to see the......
Blog For Arizona - 8:03 a.m. - 2 clicks 
Umm...is Congressional Candidate Jon Hulburd a Republican? He Assures Us, He's Not - Phoenix News - Valley Fever ...
Blog For Arizona - 2:23 a.m. - 3 clicks
by David Safier AzBlueMeanie posted, and I reposted, about a great story run by KPHO Phoenix, ABC 5 CBS 5 [I apologize to KPHO for originally putting down the wrong network], detailing the lobbyist connections between the Accidental Guv and......
Blog For Arizona - Wed 5:01 p.m. - 10 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: If you listen to politicians from the Party of Hate (fka the Arizona Republican Party) tell it, illegal immigration in Arizona is a biblical-size disaster comparable to a swarm of locusts overruning the state. This is how......
Blog For Arizona - Wed 3:49 p.m. - 7 clicks
by David Safier AzBlueMeanie posted a link to a KPHO Phoenix story about the private prison scandal. It's too important to miss. Please watch it -- especially people in the media, who should pick this up. This is potentially a......
Blog For Arizona - Wed 3:49 p.m. - 7 clicks
Steve May, the former Republican legislator who is running in District 17 (Tempe/south Scottsdale) for state representative, has been insisting that the Tempe homeless folks that he recruited to run as Green Party write-in candidates are serious candidates who deserve the Arizona Green Party's support. From the blog of Luisa Evonne Valdez, a legitimate Green candidate in LD15, a Facebook ...
Random Musings - Wed 2:41 p.m. - 6 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: KPHO-TV in Phoenix continues its investigation into the private prisons and lobbyists scandal centered in the office of Gov. Jan Brewer. Here is a link to the video report http://www.kpho.com/local-video/index.html?grabnetworks_vide And the copy that accompanies the report......
Blog For Arizona - Wed 12:25 p.m. - 6 clicks
Governor Jan "Are-You-Scared-Yet?" Brewer and her challenger Attorney General Terry "How-Can-I-Turn-This-Around-and-Keep-My-Nice-Guy-Image?" Goddard will debate tonight on television. The debate will be from 7-8 p.m. on Arizona Public Media Channel 6 in Tucson and on KAET-Horizon Channel 8 in Phoenix. The Pima County Democrats are having a debate watch party at the headquarters on 1st Stree...
Tucson Progressive - Wed 8:40 a.m. - 8 clicks
The 100% true story from a real small business owner in Tucson: In May a few years ago, I decided to start cold calling local high-tech companies. I'd created a list of about 100 of them, and saved it as an Excel spreadsheet. Around this time I met a guy from TREO, and he said that his outfit was interested in helping local businesses, especially small businesses like mine. I'd heard that pick...
Sustainability, Equity, Development - Wed 8:40 a.m. - 7 clicks
This downtown development saga begins back in December 2008, but it keeps on... well...developing... The Cliff Notes version is that the City of Tucson was going to swap land for development services to be completed by Scott Stiteler (and his various other partners who have come and gone in the past year and a half). The Tucson Citizen (December 17, 2008) made a rosy announcement of the...
Tucson Progressive - Wed 7:00 a.m. - 7 clicks
Only a week after the Arizona Primaries, Governor Jan Brewer is running ads linking her opponent Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard to Obama, unions, and the "boycott cartel." OK, agreed, for some of us, these linkages are reasons to vote for Goddard , but his portrayal in these attack ads is damming. Blog for Arizona has an embedded video , and there is a similar but different radio ...
Tucson Progressive - Tue 8:29 p.m. - 12 clicks
Courtesy Ballot Access News (The text in italics is footnoted in the text of the letter; bolded text is bolded in the original. Since the table in the letter couldn't be copied-and-pasted as a table, that text is set aside by using the Trebuchet font.)- August 30,2010 VIA EMAIL AND HAND DELIVERY The Honorable Terry Goddard Arizona Attorney General 1275 West Washington Street Pho...
Random Musings - Tue 5:26 p.m. - 8 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Press release from the Arizona Democratic Party: Governor Brewer, cut ties to your lobbyist cartel As Arizona's working families struggle through crisis after crisis, Brewer surrounds herself with special-interest lobbyists who profit PHOENIX -- It's time for......
Blog For Arizona - Tue 5:26 p.m. - 15 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Now the urgency of the "Republicans Hate Unions" special session to rescue the "save our secret ballot" proposition is becoming clearer -- it was part of a broader GOP strategy to smear unions and the working people......
Blog For Arizona - Tue 5:26 p.m. - 6 clicks
by David Safier Now that the primaries are over and Glassman has his campaign team together, it's time for him to kick into high gear. The odds are for McCain winning the general by a sizable margin, but those are......
Blog For Arizona - Tue 5:26 p.m. - 6 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Republican Party has a long history of voter registration fraud and voter suppression activities, see for example GOP voter registration fraud: Mark Jacoby arrested, Nathan Sproul under investigation (again), but the Arizona GOP's latest endeavor to......
Blog For Arizona - Tue 9:48 a.m. - 11 clicks
DFA-MC Monthly Link-Up Wed, Sept 1 at 6:30PM Old Spaghetti Factory – on Central South of McDowell Meet candidates Sherry B. Williams, candidate for Clerk of the County Superior Court; John Thrasher, running against Trent Franks for Congress in CD2; Rita Dickinson, running for AZ Senate in LD 11; and others who may drop in. [...]...
DFA-MC - Tue 4:07 a.m. - 6 clicks
Ummm...don't the defenders of SB1070 in the legislature and the other nativists in Arizona like to say that they aren't opposed to all immigrants, just "illegal" ones? From AP via the Arizona Republic (I don't normally quote MSM articles in their entirety, but this one is very short) - The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against the Maricopa County Community College District alleging i...
Random Musings - Mon 5:08 p.m. - 20 clicks
by David Safier In a Star article I linked to yesterday about the domination of the far right in the Arizona Republican Party, Wade McLean, who came in third in the LD26 Republican primary, said he was shut out at......
Blog For Arizona - Mon 5:08 p.m. - 10 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Five years later, the anger still remains. "Let them eat cake," indeed. Time to fire John McCain....
Blog For Arizona - Mon 5:08 p.m. - 6 clicks
Let's see - - Alabama's then-Governor (and staunch segregationist) George Wallace objected to the federal Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act in the 1960s. - Arizona Governor (and staunch nativist) Jan Brewer has objected to the inclusion of SB1070 and Arizona in the Universal Periodic Review report submitted to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights...
Random Musings - Sun 10:49 p.m. - 13 clicks
It hasn't even been a week, and the Schweikert campaign dirty tricks have already started... Sighted on the northeast corner of 48th St. and Chandler Boulevard today - And in case anyone questions the source of the signs... There were others, calling Mitchell "union owned" and more. The ones I saw were also located in the 48th...
Random Musings - Sun 8:40 p.m. - 10 clicks
Since Tuesday's primary results came in, showing David Schweikert to be the Republican nominee in CD5, television viewers have been inundated with ads deriding Democrats in general and Representatives Harry Mitchell and Ann Kirkpatrick in particular. The spots are the product of a Republican front organization named " Americans for Prosperity ." (AFP)( The spot specifically targeting Mitch...
Random Musings - Sat 11:41 p.m. - 20 clicks
Tucson Choices » Blog Archive » Gabby’s Got Some Splaining To Do Wow. That is a piss-weak ad. This is the best the independent committees can come up with. Gabby's going to have a cake-walk. ...
Blog For Arizona - Sat 2:02 a.m. - 11 clicks
From the Arizona Republic - Gov. Jan Brewer and Attorney General Terry Goddard, fresh off primary-election victories this week, shared the podium at the annual League of Arizona Cities and Towns meeting Thursday, painting completely opposite pictures of the state's economy and direction. Brewer, a Republican, and Goddard, a Democrat, are vying for election to the Governor's Office in November....
Random Musings - Fri 10:42 p.m. - 11 clicks
Come learn about our Democratic candidates for the general election. If there is any hope for Arizona we must elect our democratic slate! Please come and discuss where you can best help. Learn about the propositions on the ballot especially Prop 106 which endangers our health. Learn how. OLD SPAGHETTI FACTORY Central Avenue South of [...]...
DFA-MC - Thu 10:50 p.m. - 10 clicks
...but instead of using her words to do it, she's using our money... From ABC15's website - The state hopes a public relations agency can convince people to travel to Arizona despite concerns they might have about the state’s immigration law. The Arizona Governor’s Task Force on Tourism and Economic Vitality hired HMA Public Relations to come up with a campaign to help tackle any negative b...
Random Musings - Thu 2:06 p.m. - 19 clicks
Thanks to Cigar Man for sending me an email that suggested I produce the graph showing total enrollment figures for the University of Arizona and Pima Community College. The graph reflects the solid data that public institutions are mandated to submit to the Department of Education. The counts reflect real students taking courses for credit. As you can see from the graph, Pima College enrol...
Sustainability, Equity, Development - Aug 26 - 18 clicks
I have lived in Tucson for almost 30 years, and repeatedly, I have seen the City of Tucson-- and the taxpayers-- get screwed on real estate development. I am not a high-powered lawyer, but I have written and signed a few contracts in my day. My multiple life experiences lead me to ponder one question: Who writes the real estate development contracts for the City of Tucson? Why do I ask? Beca...
Tucson Progressive - Aug 25 - 17 clicks
Since I so willingly spouted off with predictions before the vote results came in, it's only right that I dissect the accuracy (or inaccuracy) of those predictions. On to the post-mortem... R Senate primary prediction: McCain, with a caveat that it might not be the blowout that it should be. Reality: At a 24 point margin (almost 122K votes), this race was the blowout it should ha...
Random Musings - Aug 25 - 8 clicks
During the primary season in CD5, one of the Republican candidates for the nomination sent out a hit piece targeting Schweikert's vulture investment fund that targeted "distressed homeowners" facing fiscal difficulty in Arizona's depressed economy. Greg Patterson of Espresso Pundit led the chorus of support for Schweikert, criticizing Salvino for criticizing a fellow Republican for doing some...
Random Musings - Aug 25 - 10 clicks
Andrei Cherny , former Assistant Arizona Attorney General, White House staffer, and Democratic nominee for Arizona State Treasurer, in a letter today challenged the Republican nominee Doug Ducey to a series of debates. The letter, from an emailed press release - Dear Douglas, Congratulations on your victory last night in the primary. Yesterday’s outcome sets up the clearest choice ...
Random Musings - Aug 25 - 6 clicks
Wielding David’s Hammer Against the Federal Health Care Goliath GI files yet another frivolous lawsuit Two Arizona Prison Escapees -- and Fiancee/ Cousin Who Helped Them Escape -- Charged With Murder in New Mexico - Phoenix News - Valley Fever FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Dog Days Diversion: A Preview of Tomorrow's Primaries in AZ, AK, VT, and OK CQ Politics | McCai...
Blog For Arizona - Aug 25 - 4 clicks
It's still to early to call most of the primaries in statewide races, but here are some results from the East Valley part of Maricopa County (OK, and a little bit on statewides...can't resist)... :) - University Lakes Justice of the Peace: With 33 of 47 precincts reporting, outgoing Democratic State Sen. Meg Burton Cahill has a comfortable lead over Kathy Hayden, 2554 - 1388. I'm comfortab...
Random Musings - Aug 25 - 2 clicks
On Thursday, September 23, a group of civic organizations, including Arizona Town Hall , the Arizona Foundation for Women , Center for the Future of Arizona , Girl Scouts - Arizona Cactus Pine Council , and The OʼConnor House , will hold an all-day event at the Wyndham in Phoenix. The goal of the event is to bring together Arizonans interested in working to improve Arizona through civil...
Random Musings - Aug 24 - 3 clicks
Today, August 24, is primary election day in Arizona. For those of you who were asleep in high school government class, a primary election is when the major parties pick their candidates to run in the November general election. Several statewide offices will be decided in November, including governor, secretary of state, attorney general, treasurer, and superintendent of public instruction. In ad...
Tucson Progressive - Aug 24 - 3 clicks
Pic taken at approx. 8:45 a.m. The woman on the right is CD5 R candidate Susan Bitter Smith with some campaign operatives (hers mostly, but at least one was a Salvino volunteer) looking at the signs in the dumpster at the Scottsdale Elks Club on Oak St. Turns out that while the Elks are willing to allow their facility to be used as a polling place, they are not will...
Random Musings - Aug 24 - 4 clicks
Arizona Star reporter Rob O'Dell must have obtained a keen sense of smell for the cloth, for he has an article in today's paper that reeks, and I mean REEKS, more strongly of the concept than anything I have seen in the press. I'm not sure I've written anything that quite captures the stench of the scam so succinctly. Cigar Man can say better than myself the clothified nature of the bloated bu...
Sustainability, Equity, Development - Aug 24 - 5 clicks
The City has posted on its website the agendas for next week's meetings of the Scottsdale City Council, and the Council will be jumping right into controversy upon its return from its summer break. At the tail end of the agenda for next Monday's meeting is an item titled "Alternative Service Delivery Options for Residential Solid Waste Collection." In other words, "privatizing trash pick ...
Random Musings - Aug 23 - 5 clicks
= On the ballot, the CAP Board will be listed as the "Central Arizona Water Conservation District." In a year when many school board races aren't races at all because they have just enough candidates to fill the open spots on the boards (and many other entities, like local fire boards, don't have enough candidates to even fill the open seats; full candidate listing here ), the CAWCD has 15 ...
Random Musings - Aug 22 - 6 clicks
From an email from Congressman Harry Mitchell - Dear [cpmaz] Since coming to Congress, I have been working to improve our nation’s energy policy by making investments in clean, green American-made energy , such as solar and wind power. These investments will not only help meet our energy needs, but also be a major and sustainable boost to Arizona’s economy. In 2008, I successfully fought t...
Random Musings - Aug 20 - 3 clicks
On AZ's economic situation, as with the ( formerly ) escaped murderers, Brewer continues her silence, perhaps hoping the problem will go away before she has to demonstrate anything resembling real leadership...or even a simple awareness of the problems facing the average Arizona family. From the Yuma Sun - The troubled economy continues to take its toll on jobs in Yuma County, as seen in...
Random Musings - Aug 20
From the Arizona Republic - After nearly three weeks on the run, Arizona fugitives John McCluskey and Casslyn Welch were caught in Apache County on Thursday evening. The fugitive couple were caught at a campground near Sunrise Ski Resort at about 7 p.m. With state, local and federal law-enforcement agencies around the country participating in the manhunt, it was the work of a keen-eyed for...
Random Musings - Aug 19 - 2 clicks
There are a myriad of reasons why people either support or denounce SB1070 , Arizona's harsh anti-illegal immigration bill. Pro: "America's under attack! The brown people are coming to take our jobs! Stop the border-crossing terrorists and drug dealers." Con: "This is a racist policy-- and an unfunded mandate-- that could foster racial profiling, discrimination and wrongful imprisonmen...
Tucson Progressive - Aug 17
On Monday morning, I posted a rather fiery blog post about political signs being removed in midtown Tucson. Well, I kicked a hornet's nest with that story. After multiple e-mail exchanges with the Ward 6 Office-- including Steve himself-- and neighborhood association leaders, I learned that the sign sweep was not in just Ward 6 but citywide. I also learn that only illegally-posted signs woul...
Tucson Progressive - Aug 17
