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		<title>&#8216;Gang of Eight&#8217; immigration reform bill advances in the Senate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 21:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AZ BlueMeanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by AzBlueMeanie: It has often been said that people do not want to see the "sausage making" process of legislation, and nowhere is that a truer statement than with the "Gang of Eight" immigration reform bill. After multiple attempts...]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Robb is right: refer a clean Medicaid (AHCCCS) restoration bill to the voters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 19:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AZ BlueMeanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I hate it when I have to agree with the Arizona Republic's &#252;ber-conservative columnist Robert Robb, but even a broken clock is right twice a day, am I right? Keep in mind that this latest column from...]]></description>
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		<title>Action Alert: Call your state senator now to oppose SB 1493</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 12:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AZ BlueMeanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Craig McDermott posted about the upcoming week in the legislature, and covered the Medicaid (AHCCCS) restoration and budget which moves to the House this week. The Senate held the omnibus elections bill last week from its marathon...]]></description>
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		<title>Budget Update: Medicaid (AHCCCS) restoration plan passes the Senate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 02:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AZ BlueMeanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by AzBlueMeanie: In 2004, a handful of Republican senators joined with Democratic senators to wrest control of the Arizona Senate chamber from an obstructionist Senate President. It hasn't happened since -- until today. A bipartisan Senate coalition, led by...]]></description>
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		<title>Neo-Confederate dead-enders put the long discredited and unconstitutional theories of &#8216;nullification, interposition and secession&#8217; on the 2014 ballot</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 16:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AZ BlueMeanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I posted about this previously, Arizona's Neo-Confederate dead-enders and secession: Remember the "Checks and Balances in Government" citizens initiative aka the "nullification" initiative from a nutty Scottsdale millionaire businessman, Jack Biltis, that failed to qualify for the...]]></description>
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		<title>Action Alert: Call your state senator now to oppose SB 1493</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AZ BlueMeanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Craig McDermott posted earlier about Senate President Andy Biggs' budget package introduced yesterday, and mentioned the omnibus elections bill tacked onto the appropriations bills. Here's Biggs' deal: Medicaid restoration in exchange for reducing voting rights. After a...]]></description>
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		<title>So how&#8217;s that GOP rebranding working out?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 21:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AZ BlueMeanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by AzBlueMeanie: On Sunday, the Arizona Republic for some reason felt compelled to publish a guest opinion (and video) by the disgraced and recalled former Senate President, Russell Pearce, writing on behalf of his anti-immigrant nativist hate group, BanAmnestyNow.com....]]></description>
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		<title>More B.S. from the Goldwater Institute and Tea-Publicans on Gov. Brewer&#8217;s Medicaid (AHCCCS) restoration plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 20:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AZ BlueMeanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by AzBlueMeanie: You can file this one under stupid shit the Goldwater Institute says and that reporters unquestionly repeat as mere stenographers. You can cross-file it under stupid shit that Tea-Publicans believe but which has no basis in the...]]></description>
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		<title>Crony Capitalists Invent the &#8220;SIFI&#8221; Shield for Protection from Competitors and Taxpayers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 19:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.westernfreepress.com/?attachment_id=120950" rel="attachment wp-att-120950"></a>Tea Party Conservatives and Occupy Wall Streeters don&#8217;t agree on much, but they do agree on one thing &#8212; both groups despise crony capitalists and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism">crony capitalism</a>.</p>
<p>Huge corporations, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_systemically_important_banks">especially banks</a>, <a href="http://www.pwc.com/us/en/financial-services/regulatory-services/publications/fsoc-rule-for-sifis-and-nonbank-financial-companies.jhtml">insurance companies</a>, and other big financial institutions are nominally born of free-market capitalism where success and growth comes from providing the best services at the lowest prices.&#160; One might think that these huge corporations would therefore favor unfettered competition.&#160; And they do &#8212; when ...</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Heritage Foundation jettisons white supremacist autthor of its immigration study</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 22:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AZ BlueMeanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Oh, like no one saw this coming. Heritage Foundation fellow Jason Richwine, who subcribes to the controversial "science" of hereditarianism and eugenics, long championed by white supremacists and segregationists, is out of a job today. Maybe the...]]></description>
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