There’s that story, most likely made up, that Rudy Giuliani said “Thank God George Bush is our President” when he found out about the attacks on the World Trade Center. But, every time I hear about another dumb ass publicity stunt perpetrated by Joe Arpaio, I say to myself, “Thank God Clarence Dupnik is my […]
Steve Farley reports that he will be debating Pat Buchanan (of all people) at 10:30 AM local time on MSNBC. Farley says that he has been assured that Buchanan is the most gracious of hosts, but we’ll see if he can snag a coffee mug like he can from Bill Buckmaster.
The topic will be on […]
Today is the birthday of former Attorney General, Governor and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt.
Babbitt was elected Attorney General of Arizona in 1974, the last Democrat elected to that office until Janet Napolitano won in 1998. He served as governor of Arizona from the death in 1978 of Governor Wesley Bolin until 1987 when he made […]
One of the things that has continued to amuse me in our state’s politics is the tendency of folks in the buisiness community to continue to support some of the retrograde freaks that run our legislature, but then expect Democratic officials to ride in and stop these guys from pursuing policies that hurt their interests.
I […]
Former Senator Robert Cannell has, if reports are to be believed, changed his voter registration to Republican and is planning a run for his old seat.
Cannell was regarded as a pragmatic, moderate Democrat who was also for many years the only physician in the legislature. His attatchment to party was never very strong (he’s been […]
Saturday, the Arizona Daily Star ran a short interview with Senate President Tim Bee. Interestingly, Bee names his cooperation with Senate Democrats as a major accomplishment. Also, he also says that he responded “to the reality that Democrats had gained numbers in both chambers” and the reality that there is a Democratic governor.
Good to see […]
In a previous post, I implied that Ed Ableser uses mousse. I have been assured by sources that he uses other hair products, but not mousse.
R Cubed regrets the error.
I’ve received a couple of e-mails from folks asking me when Tim Bee was going to resign. It didn’t occur to me that such a thing would be imminent, but he may need to sooner rather than later.
There are two things Bee has to do before he tries to take down Gabrielle Giffords in the next election. […]
Growing up, I’d see protests against dictators in Poland, South Africa, Chile or wherever, and the response by those in charge was always the same: call out the water canons and show ‘em who’s boss. It was even George Wallace’s and Ross Barnetts’s weapon against civil rights protestors in our country back in the 1960’s.
It […]
The Lege went Sine Die late last night. I don’t know the exact time, but the e-mail announcing the close of the session hit my box at 10:57 last night.
This leaves me with a gaping hole in material for months. Where will I go? What will I do?
Earlier this week, UFCW Local 99 presented a report to legislators regarding a pattern of ignoring employee complaints and intimidation of workers by management at stores owned by Basha’s. Kyrsten Sinema made a statement at a meeting arranged by her for Basha’s employees and State Representatives:
Their report paints a troubling picture of employment practices at Bashas’ […]
Our state’s long nightmare is over…Steve Farley is wearing proper pants again.
For those who don’t know, Farley waged a sort of one man protest against house leadership by wearing jeans until the senate budget was considered. Well, Farley announced in an e-mail to supporters that after house approval of a budget compromise yesterday, he will […]
One of Russell Pearce’s pet bills this session has been an act to allow candidates who are running for office circulate joint petitions with multiple names, so a voter signing one petition is signing for a list of candidates. If it were anyone but Pearce, I would chalk this up to concern about all the […]
I heard from some folks up in Phoenix about SEIU’s organizing effort among state employees. The effort only started late last week, but they are already above 200 members. This is way above the union’s own expectations.
Monday, several new members of SEIU showed up at the state capitol to make the rounds with legislators. They […]
Republican Mahout Randy Pullen blogged that Sen. Harry Reid should step down because of his statements about Gen. Peter Pace. For some reason, Reid is not allowed to say anything bad about the guy in time of war without it causing major damage, but the president can actually have the guy sacked in time of […]
My Lord.
Well, she’s gone and done it. It’s like she read my post about my doubts about her candidacy and Hillary Clinton went and decided that she would tick me off even more. She’s now descended down my hierarchy of Democratic nominee wannabees down to somewhere below Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel.
What, you may ask, […]
Last week, Jan Brewer raised hackles because of what she called fraudulent tactics on the part of petition passers. Apparently, she alleges, some folks passing a petition to change the composition of the Arizona Redistricting Commission used “bait and switch” tactics. This left me to wonder, where was Brewer when the anti-gay marriage and PAN […]
Tim Bee suggested last week that he may end the Senate session with a recess rather than Sine Die. The purpose of this would be to avoid violating a court order in the seemingly endless Flores case. Yep, far better to pull a parliamentary manuever than actually deal with the issue.
So far, there isn’t any […]
I’m torn about Hillary Clinton. For one thing, I don’t buy that her candidacy is DOA the moment she gets nominated (maybe it is in the press, but not the electorate). For some reason, John McCain can post similar “unfavorability” numbers but not be regarded this way by the wise reporters in the beltway. Oh […]
If people don’t want to come out to the ball park, nobody’s gonna stop ‘em. - Yogi Bera
More silliness from our friends that post on the Star and Citizen message boards: the Tucson Sidewinders’ possible move to Reno is all Raúl Grijalva’s fault. Yep. It’s a plan he and his reconquista buddies hatched on the […]
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