Rum, Romanism and Rebellion

Okay, here’s something vaguely disturbing for all y’alls.
Go ahead…do a Google image search on the name Raul Grijalva. Do it now; I’ll wait.
(cue Jeopardy theme)
Check out that fourth picture.
Yep. That’s me at the fan tournament at MLS Cup in Dallas back in 2005. The picture was taken by a Cambridge resident by the name of […]

I had more important things to do last night than watch the debate. I did, however catch the so-called highlights. Those of you who watched it: can you tell me if the two of them were asked any questions about, you know, substantive issues? I even caught an exchange about flag pins…
UPDATE: I caught this […]

Bob Lord’s vassals are touting his haul of $220,000 in his latest finance report, which out paces John Shadegg’s comparatively meager $150,000.
I guess that “Well, wait, I’m running after all” routine put a damper on Shadegg’s fundraising.
So much for that “incumbent advantage,” eh?
Am I smelling an upset here? Or is that just my new cologne?

Well, it looks like Tim Bee is able to raise money after all. Good for him, I suppose. Although, as a well known Gabrielle Giffords Yes Man, I’d like to point out that Giffords raised slightly more money than Bee, and still has far more cash on hand than Bee. She’s beating him by more […]

Wow, John McCain has this innovative proposal for a “gas tax holiday.” Yeah, he understands economics (and, as the son of an admiral and husband of an heiress, he certainly understands the plight of the working man more than that Barack Obama).
John, you let those lefty yahoos go on about how the gas tax represents […]

What, an anouncement on Friday? Naw…Monday? Hey, it’s Tuesday…
The new word on the street (because, as Howard Devoto said, I am the street where you live) is that Ken Bennett will not run for congress. Heck, he already was a senator and a president, why would he want to settle for representative now?
The talk is […]

Josh Marshall on the “bitter” kerfluffle:
This has been one of the more comedic aspects of this 72 hours — watching a cavalcade of extremely wealthy pundits, editorialists and political operatives from New York and Washington tell me how rural Americans won’t stand for this.

The announcement was supposed to be Friday, but folks were actually expecting it today. That’s right, Ken Bennett will be back in the race for congressional district 1. As we all know, CD 1 is the size of Pennsylvania.
The story goes that the mahouts have been talking to Bennett for a couple of weeks. When […]

Yeah, Tim Bee was hoping everyone forgot about that ad. Well, now he has an FEC complaint about the ad hanging over his head.
Attacks on Bee a few months back over his not resigning his office while “exploring” a congressional run had no legal result, but seemed to make him dial back on campaign activities. Even if […]

The Yellow Sheet reported that Kris Mayes has decided against running for congress. Does this mean that her time working for Janet Napolitano gets re-inserted in her resume?
This leaves the Republicans’ “top” candidate mining lobbyist and knuckle-dragger Sidney Hay, who has already promised to be as good as Rick Renzi. For those who don’t have a […]

Weeks ago, someone told me that Democrat-turned-at-least-officially-Republican-turned-Democrat Slade Mead has a blog. I couldn’t find the darned thing. People kept telling me, “you should see it,” but never told me the name or address.
Well, I found it; it is called The Dry Heat. Since he is up in the Greater Phoenix Conurbation, he is able […]

Poking around yesterday, I found out that the Tim Bee ad that I wrote about the other day was paid for by an organization called the Education Finance Reform Group. As Daniel Scarpinato reported in this morning’s Star, this organization is funded by several local school districts to lobby the legislature.
So, why on earth is school district money […]

Okay, check out this ad running now for Tim Bee. You tell me what is missing:

Yep, no disclaimer to tell us who is paying for the darned thing.
I can already see the arguments from the Bee camp:
“Oh, it isn’t a campaign ad. Citizens are just saying, ‘Thank you’ to Tim Bee for supporting education.”
Yeah, right. […]

It looks like Kyrsten Sinema managed to put the kibosh to the plans that top Republicans had to put gay marriage on the ballot again.
How’d she do it? Well, by amending the bill to codify protections for domestic partners. Protections which, by the way, polling shows a majority of Arizonans would be in support of.
Sinema […]

The first quarter is over, so this is the time that the various campaigns spin how wonderful or gawdawful their fundraising was in anticipation of the official numbers that will come out in a few weeks.
According to R-Cubed’s crack research team (yes, they are on crack), the only one to have filed their official report already […]

We will soon be blessed with another candidate for Corporation Commission, Cochise County Supervisor Paul Newman. Yes, check your calendars, it is not 1998.
Some of you may remember that the then-State House member from Bisbee narrowly lost a race for the Corporation Commission to State Treasurer Tony West. As it turned out, West was ineligible […]

Okay, y’all can stop e-mailing me: I’m doing a post about crAZyspace.
The Arizona Democratic Party debuted this site a few days ago to highlight some of the more moronic statements and actions by some of our Republican “leaders.” I guess they must have been worried about bandwidth, because I can think of at least a half-dozen more […]

Well, I guess I can’t complain about John McCain having lobbyists work his campaign anymore since Charlie Black is taking a leave of absence from his firm to work full time on the campaign. I guess that means that Black will no longer be making lobbying calls from the Straight Talk Express. Carping lefties like […]

From this morning’s Phoenix Gazette:
Pearce Mulls Party Switch
M. Piltdown and Bob Oso
Special to the Gazette
Capitol observers were shocked today by rumors that conservative lion Russell Pearce (R - Mesa) is considering a move to the Democratic Party.
Some lobbyists noted a change two weeks ago during an exchange at a meeting of the House Appropriations committee, […]