Some of you may have read about the attempts by the White House to recruit Surgeon General Richard Carmona and Lute Olson’s wife, Christine Toretti Olson, to run in the now-open Congressional District 8.
Let’s think about these choices for a minute.
Carmona has been an important member of the local community, but his previous political experience […]
Greg Patterson at Espresso Pundit says nice things about me at times, which worries me. Over the last couple of weeks, he has gone after two Democrats, it seems in an attempt to deflect criticism away from the Republicans.
For example, yesterday, he went after Rep. Ted Downing for being a university professor. Patterson’s trouble is […]
One of the odd features of our politics is that the best way to show that you are “doing something” is to engage in some meaningless gesture that attacks a problem that doesn’t exist.
I remember several years ago when Rep. Jim Kolbe, who at the time had already served more than half a dozen terms […]
Corporation Commissioner Kris Mayes is concerned because three of the state’s largest utilities are in danger of being unable to meet their pension obligations to the tune of $585,000,000. By far the largest share of the shortfall is Arizona Public Service’s $472,000,000.
This has been a big problem nationwide. Many corporations see their pension obligations not […]
The gnomes that live in my walls are telling me that Supervisor Ray Carroll has decided not to run for congress, and will announce this in the next few days.
Carroll was probably the strongest possible Republican candidate if he got nominated. Pima County Supervisors are political rock stars (okay, maybe not rock stars, but very […]
Maricopa Superior Court Judge Mark F. Aceto has upheld a ruling by the state’s Clean Election Commission that Rep. David Burnell Smith violated campaign finance rules and that the commission had the power to remove him from office.
The ruling stated:
The court finds that Representative Smith has usurped, intruded into and unlawfully holds or exercises the […]
Reports are that “top national Republicans,” including some at the White House, are urging Surgeon General Richard Carmona to run for congress.
Why do I keep thinking of the last few lines of Raiders of the Lost Ark?
I don’t think Carmona is going to do it. He’s got the best gig in DC. He also is […]
I didn’t make it to the swearing in ceremony for Nina Trasoff and Karin Uhlich, I’m a blogger that works for a living.
I heard about it though, and that is almost as good, right?
Kathleen Dunbar showed up after all, but her behavior was reported as “ungracious” by those that were there.
Another interesting attendee: Clear Channel […]
One of the drawbacks to now being a rich and famous blogger, okay, a broke and mildly infamous blogger, is that people tell you things and then tell you, “You can’t put this on your blog.”
Well, what fun is that?
Someone told me something the other day. Now I have heard it from three people, which […]
Former Tucson Mayor Lew Murphy died of a heart attack yesterday.
Murphy, a Republican, was the longest serving Mayor in Tucson’s history. He was first elected by defeating Democrat Jim Corbett (he liked the ladies) in 1971 and managed to serve until 1987. He was one of the few on the council that survived the […]
Len Munsil is throwing his hat into the ring to get the chance to get flattened by Governor Napolitano. Munsil is the head of the Center for Arizona Policy, an organization for people that are angry that someone, somewhere, is sleeping with the wrong person.
I checked out their home page. It, of course, features two […]
Senator Gabrielle Giffords resigned her state senate seat today, although she did not officially announce a run for the congressional seat being vacated by Jim Kolbe. That cat is still inside a rather tanslucent bag.
Interesting factoid that I touched on before: both of the previous two occupants of the southeast Arizona seat, Kolbe and […]
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