Yes, I haven’t been posting a lot here lately. I’m dealing with my own issues right now and don’t have the inclination to post as often.
I know that one poster here has decided that my lack of frequent posts is due to some political issue. If projecting such motives makes him sleep better at night, more power to him.
Am I the only one to notice that Jesse Kelly is basing his campaign on defending the two federal programs that are the closest thing we have to socialism?
It wasn’t too long ago he would have pointed that one out himself.
From Al Melvin’s Twitter feed:
#azright We’re a cntr right country & state made up of Catholics, Evangelicals & Mormons who are pro life & traditional family & marriage.
Well, the assertion the country agrees with him on social issues isn’t borne out by the polling data. But, besides that, what is with his list of religions? Heck, he doesn’t even include mainline Protestants. Where does that leave Jews, Muslims atheists and everyone else?
Al doesn&#...
I have a lot of repsect for Ken Bennett. Admitedly, this may be in comparison to at least one of the neanderthals that have succeded him as senate president. And hey, he was born in Tucson…at least I hope he was.
Also, he reads this blog. Obviously a man of impeccable taste.
That said, there are a few things out there that deem a person useless to try to have a sane, rational discussion about politics with. One is birtherism. If you are willing to propogate that one, either you don’t...
My chief frustration with Mark Stegeman in this whole ethnic studies mess is his assumption that Tom Horne and John Huppenthal have any incentive to act like reasonable people who can be bargained with.
So, what we have now is this plan for a “multicultural cirriculum.” They’ve put a first rate guy in charge of developing it, but I figure it won’t fly. Heck, it’s got the word “multicultural” in it.
I mean, do we think any cirriculum that includes more Hi...
Ron Barber has a new ad up, and I’m happy that it’s out there. A previous ad aired by the DCCC noted Jesse Kelly’s previous and rather inconvienient statements on Medicare, but Kelly just brushed it aside and called it “lies.” Now, it will be hard to do so because he’s talking on video.
Hard to deny that one. I don’t think that will stop him from trying. If the responses I get from his supporters on here are any indication, the response will be “O...
Monday, Speaker Andy Tobin announced that he isn’t going to run for congress. In his press release he talked about work that he’s left undone.
Yeah, that’s exactly what the rest of us were afraid of.
The budget got signed yesterday has already generated the threat of a lawsuit. It turns out that $50 million dollars were transfered from a fund that the legislature has no control over. The fund was from the settlement of a lawsuit against mortgage lenders, and legislators claim t...
I got a call from someone the other day and they felt that my post on Jesse Kelly was too easy on him. They said that I was calling him uninformed instead of calling him a liar.
They had a good point. Kelly proudly called Social Security a Ponzi scheme in 2010, and talked up the abolition of Medicare. Now, he could, I suppose, have handled his change of heart by saying that he learned to appreciate Social Security and Medicare during his sojurn in Texas, but he didn’t.
His response is to c...
Joe Biden came out for marriage equality this morning. On the TV even.
Below is the press release from Catholics for Equality:
WASHINGTON – Catholics for Equality, the country’s largest national political organization of pro-LGBT equality Catholics, issued the following statement in response to Vice President Joseph Biden’s announcement this morning on Meet the Press that he supports civil marriage equality:
Catholics for Equality is proud of our Catholic brother, Vice Preside...
I was out and about on the East Side yesterday and I saw that Jesse Kelly’s signs now have a bright yellow banner that proclaims his love of Medicare.
This would come as a great shock to the Republican nominee who ran in 2010.
For those not paying attention, that was Jesse Kelly.
Not suprisingly, the Ron Barber campaign has set their phasers to “full outrage” on this one, pointing out Kelly’s anti-Medicare statements in the past.
I’m willing to cut Kelly a bit of a ...
So, we are supposed to believe the folks at Rosemont Copper will be responsible in running their proposed mine in the Santa Ritas and that they will remediate the place when they have taken the copper out.
I’ve never been sure how we are supposed to judge these claims. Other than a few local hired guns, they are a foreign owned company with no presence in the area. It makes it hard to take them at their word that they will feel any responsibility for the environmental consequences.
Their l...
I try not to seek out conservative bias in the media. I’ve talked to enough reporters to know that what looks like “bias” could be poor editing or, yes, laziness at times. Still, once in a while I see something that makes me wonder.
Today, JT Ready was killed after he massacred a family. For those who don’t know much about Ready, he was a white supremacist and candidate for Sheriff up in Pinal County. He had been a buddy of Russell Pearce at one point, until they had a fa...
From Jan Brewer’s Twitter feed:
Dem lawmakers call it shortsighted to set aside funding for a rainy day. Trying to wrap my brain around that one. This may take a while …
The blog Arizona’s Politics did a good job of summing up the rebuttal to the ridiculous attack that Ron Barber is looking to destroy Medicare.
Well, as we’ve learned, actual facts will not get in the way of this hit. Give it a couple of weeks, they’ll be droning on about Barber personally running a death panel.
The funny part is that Jesse Kelly, along with every Republican running for anything, is a supporter of the Paul Ryan budget plan. The Ryan plan would shift more of the ...
Tim Stellar has a piece in the Star this morning about Paul Babeu using Pinal County Sheriff’s Department employees in an ad, even though he’s under federal investigation for using his employees for his congressional campaign on county time.
I’m not stunned that he’d do such a thing; I’m stunned that he’s still running for congress.
I’ll have a real post up later today. In the mean time, check out this article on Cracked.com.
Word from our solons up North is that Steve Montenegro is circulating a letter asking that the budget include a $260,000 compensation to Russell Pearce for expenses he incurred durring the recall election.
What, he lost an election and we should compensate him? By the way, it was money that was donated to him. It’s not like he dipped into his savings.
The reasons for why this is probably the most asinine idea that the legislature has had that doesn’t involve firearms or birth control...
The White House released its list of who will be awarded the Medal of Freedom this year. Among them is Dolores Huerta. This is from the official citation:
Huerta is a civil rights, workers, and women’s advocate. With Cesar Chavez, she co-founded the National Farmworkers Association in 1962, which later became the United Farm Workers of America. Huerta has served as a community activist and a political organizer, and was influential in securing the passage of California’s Agricultural Labor ...
The Justice Department has “precleared” Arizona’s legislative maps.
This puts me in district 9, but kinda-still-the-chair of 28, a district club that no longer exists. I’m the Arizona politics equivalent of a Hapsburg.
