Roy Warden, a good and intimate friend of this blog, decided to post the same rather long notice as a “comment” for four different posts. I don’t like deleting posts (despite the accusations thrown my way, I’ve only done it once before to a non-”spam” post), so I deleted three of them, leaving the one which […]
The Republic reported yesterday that Rep. Trish Groe was caught by a La Paz county Sheriff’s deputy driving without a valid license and with a BAC of 0.16%.
I really don’t feel like piling on. She herself admitted to the deputy that she’s got an alcohol problem. She needs to get some help, and even snide […]
The new story going around in legal circles is that Paul Charlton was fired not for investigating Rick Renzi, but instead for the leak of the investigation just weeks before the election.
Not that I would know anything about that.
The story made the Washington Post, but was ignored by our state’s paper of record. Well, worse […]
Because we don’t have any pressing problems before our fair State, the house homeland security committee will be taking up SCM 1002 tommorrow. What important issue does this non-binding memorial bill tackle? It is a resolution against plans to unify Canada, the United States and Mexico into one super state.
You haven’t heard about this? Well, […]
Guy I talked to the other day suggested that Elaine Richardson would be an excellent candidate for mayor. I don’t know if this is anything resembling a “draft” or even if she’d be the least bit interested. I’m throwing it out there because, well, he’s a talker and I can’t be the only one he’s […]
The date has been set for the largest union election in Arizona history. Pima County employees will get to vote on April 3rd and 4th to decide whether or not they will be represented by SEIU.
Expect the SEIU to push for a big turnout in this election. They feel that a decisive victory and a […]
A message went out from John Edwards yesterday:
Elizabeth and I are so grateful for your prayers and wishes. Your support means a great deal to us during this difficult time.As you may have heard, yesterday we found out that Elizabeth’s breast cancer is back, but confined mainly to her bones. Although this isn’t the news […]
Here’s some information that is useless based on the fact that I can now give it to you:
This site was down today. According to the folks at DreamHost, there was some trouble with the domain name server. I have to give the DreamHost credit: they responded to my report of the problem immediately, and took […]
Ya know, if they were going to have a gap of missing e-mails, wouldn’t it have been prudent to choose a number of days other than 18? The words “gap” and “18″ have a bit of resonance with a certain earlier scandal.
Anyone check the times on those? Was it, in fact, an 18 1/2 day gap? Just curious. […]
Funny you should ask.
Earlier this week, Congressman Raúl Grijalva introduced the Clean Money, Clean Elections Act, which would in essence make Arizona’s Clean Elections System for state office holders the law for federal candidates as well. The bill has been assigned a number, HR 1614, and is also sponsored by Democrat John Tierney and Republican […]
It’s about to boil over. The AP and UPI are both running pieces on the Paul Charlton firing and questions on whether or not it was connected to an ongoing probe of Rick Renzi (I’m not saying he’s a carpetbagger, but his favorite Western is The Virginian).
The AP story is really an Arizona Republic article on the matter. […]
Over at Sonoran Alliance, they have been critical of what they believe is footdragging by the Pima County Republican party in the upcoming Tucson Mayor’s race. They have complained twice about having to get information on their own candidates from a “Democrat Leaning Blog” (that’s me, but, only “leaning”?) rather from their own party.
They have […]
The Nation published a piece yesterday about the firing of Paul Charlton. As with most pieces on this subject, it leaves me with more questions than it answers. It does introduce a heretofore unknown (to me) character, a former US Attorney named Brent Ward. Ward prosecuted many pornography cases and became an ally of Ed […]
An article in the latest Roll Call (not linking article since a subscription is required) entitled “National GOP Hits Arizona Frosh” details the way the Republican Party has chosen to go after Harry Mitchell and Gabrielle Giffords. Of course they will: Giffords’s district had been represented by a Republican since 1985, and Mitchell’s has been since, […]
I received a missive from an individual who took issue with my post on the rhubarb between David Schapira and Bob Robson. Well, they only took issue with one particular part of it: the fact that I quoted the Arizona Republic’s snarky comments on the incident, and their quote of Robson’s later comments towards Steve […]
I recieved an e-mail today from Daniel Patterson who wanted to tell me that he pulled papers his papers to run for mayor. From the props where props are due department: I spoke to Patterson the other day and he actually understood and appreciated the reference to Henry A. Jaastad in my last entry about his […]
Many of you probably know that most parliaments and congresses have rules against directly insulting members. Attempts of people to not quite break the rules can often have amusing results. I once caught a debate of the Australian Parliament on CSPAN where then-Prime Minister Paul Keating said “Unfortunately, I cannot think of any reason for an […]
Check out this letter from Jon Kyl in this morning’s Arizona Republic. Kyl is claiming that he was not “fine” with the firing of US Attorney Paul Charlton. This would be in conflict with earlier e-mails that said that Kyl knew about the firing and had approved it.
Okay, three things could be happening here:
Kyl is […]
I got a missive from Steve Emerine, who wanted y’all to look at his column in Inside Tucson Business. The column will be published tommorrow, but is already available online.
Emerine is highly critical of the lack of the lack of leadership from the mayor’s office. Yes, many people have been critical of the dearth of […]
The Democrats are hunting for a mayoral candidate now. Steve Leal was such a presence in the race that it kept many others from seriously making a go of it. The trouble now is finding a candidate that is more than just a name on the ballot. Yesterday, Daniel Scarpinato floated the name Roger Pfeuffer, the […]
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