Anyone remember how, week before last, the legislature took Thursday off with the implicit promise that the Republican leadership would have a budget to present to the full legislature by the following Monday?
Well, today is the Monday following the following Monday. One more Thursday off for the house, and still nothing.
I’ve talked to a couple […]
From an article in this morning’s Arizona Republic:
The complaints echo a common refrain heard from local McCain critics in just about every demographic. Namely, that since emerging in the 1990s as a top national political figure and presidential contender, McCain has neglected his Arizona constituents and responsibilities.
Tim Bee is bringing Labor Secretary Elaine Chao to Tucson for a fundraiser on Tuesday. It would be so easy for me to go after Chao for being an anti-worker Secretary of Labor: whether it comes to being dismissive of organized labor, undermining worker safety or hunting down whistleblowers. Having Chao in charge of the Department of […]
Once again, David Safier over at Blog for Arizona just doesn’t get it. His bleeding heart is once again staining his shirts and making a mess of everything.
According to his post over at Blog for Arizona, he asked Tom Horne about his plans to end social promotion during his live chat that the Star staged […]
On Monday, Independent Annie Loyd announced that she is not going to run for congress after all. Her press release didn’t mention the name of Democratic candidate Bob Lord, but this is good news for him. I doubt that Lloyd was going to get a pile of votes, but I’m sure that Lord is helped […]
Some of you have noticed that I haven’t yet written anything on the lobbyist that was working for both John McCain and the junta that runs Burma.
I am still trying to get over the shock that a straight talking reformer like John McCain even knows any lobbyists, he is their scourge after all. I’m sure […]
When she decided to vote for the anti-gay marriage amendment, Marian McClure gave an apology of sorts. Folks at the capitol have seen this before; McClure does these things and the rest of us are still supposed to see her as a level headed moderate because she feels bad for herself. I don’t have an […]
I’ve read this post over at Sonoran Alliance a couple of times. I fail to see how this is a “nightmare scenario.”
The only thing I can figure is that they are worried that Jan Brewer will become governor. Yeah, that would be a nightmare.
I haven’t written anything yet on the alliterative Robert Robuck, the candidate who is taking on Ramón Valadez in the Democratic primary for County Supervisor. One Valadez booster I talked to was convinced that Robuck was recruited by Ray Carroll to run against Valadez. If so, he didn’t prepare this guy for his run too […]
I this e-mail was forwarded to me this weekend. If you plan on making a call, make sure to do it this morning.
Hi Everyone,
Last night, I attended the annual Southern Arizona Stonewall Democrats banquet, held in conjunction with the conference of the National Stonewall Democrats. It was great to see many friends and elected officials […]
I keep hearing from folks what a screwed up process we have on the Democratic side to decide our nominee. Those Republicans don’t have these superdelegates, and their primaries are mostly winner take all. Heck, even some high ranking people in Hillary Clinton’s campaign point to the Republican rules being so much better because, well, […]
I was chagrined yesterday when I saw that after Barack Obama had met with Gabrielle Giffords, Gifffords rzecznik C. J. Karamargin had given Greg Sargent the news that Giffords was, well, still officially uncommitted.
I mean, how am I supposed to keep up my reputation as a Giffords toady if these people give their exclusives to […]
In a moment of masochism, I checked out Politico’s Superdelegate page. Here was something that struck me: American Samoa has six superdelegates; Arizona has eleven.
That’s right. Arizona has nearly 90 times as many people, but barely gets twice as many supers as American Samoa. American Samoa has about 67,000 people, a bit fewer than Apache […]
I was corrected by a legislator today when I ribbed him today about the day off he and his colleagues had been given today. I said that they were a bunch of bums. He corrected me and said that they were, in fact, slackers.
They aren’t all taking the day off. Republican leaders are stuck up there […]
This hit my e-mail box mere moments ago…
May 8, 2008 (Washington, DC) — MrSuper.org is a website which was created in March to debunk myths, offer insight and answer questions about the 2008 Democratic nomination process for President. The author, who has been posting under the pseudonym “Mr. Super” will announce his identity today.
The site […]
After reading this about Hillary Clinton’s chief strategist Mark Penn, there are some other bits of advice that he might need before embarking on his next competitive endeavor:
Those pieces that look like horses can jump over other pieces
A flush beats a straight
The goalkeeper can use his hands
You can’t strike out on a foul
Those big dots […]
Ah, funny thing this politics.
The line from many pundits (and two Barack Obama supporters I talked to) is that Obama may not want Hillary Clinton to drop out yet.
The reason is her lead in West Virginia and Kentucky, two of the states which vote next week. Obama being beaten by active candidate Clinton in those states would be […]
Michael Bryan is taking a bit of heat over at his blog for suggesting that Joe Higgins is a stalking horse for Al Melvin. I’m a bit leery of that one. The guy just doesn’t seem like Melvin’s cup of tea. I’ve been involved in disagreements with the man and never once did his veins […]
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