Monday, October 26th, 2009...10:26 am
What Was Weak Last Week
My weekly round up of stuff I was too lazy and neglectful to write about last week:
- Shaun McClusky makes things too easy for me. In response to a question posed by opponent Richard Fimbres, he admitted that the reason that he didn’t vote in city elections because he didn’t realize that council elections were at-large. I guess the mailers from Republican candidates in other wards and the sample ballots he got in the mail didn’t give him any clue (by the way, did he vote in mayoral elections?). Another gem from McClusky came from an article later in the week where he claimed that Prop. 200 isn’t an unfunded mandate because it doesn’t come from congress (I’ll let you mull that one over for a bit). Funny, I thought an unfunded mandate meant that you mandated spending without funding it. My mistake thinking that I had any knowledge of English.
- And speaking of Proposition 200, who among the people pushing it decided that Jon Justice would be the best person to have speaking on their behalf in tonight’s debate, the last one and the only one that will be televised (albeit on one of KUAT’s digital channels)? Justice spent a great deal of time on his show last week trashing the format of the debate and the questioners (which begs the question of why he wants to go) as well as leaving hints that he may try to be disruptive. This is the guy that they hope to turn around their plummetting polling numbers? They do realize that Justice may be the wrong guy to make their case in a town where most of the votes will be cast by Democrats, right?
So, will he pretend to drown puppies, or will he fondle a piñata?
- You’d think that the sycophants around Jan Brewer would just let last week’s decision to give Kevin Tyne a soft landing fade and bask in the glow of the praise they’ve gotten for moving Eileen Klein into his old position. But, naw, they can’t do that. Over at Chuck Coughlin’s firm’s blog, he blames the lack of leadership in the governor’s office on Janet Napolitano. Hey, we can argue with Napolitano’s budget choices, but Brewer came amid promises that with her office and the lege controlled by one party, that things would get done. She couldn’t get a budget passed even with both houses controlled by her own party. That can’t be blamed on Napolitano, that’s all the fault of la Cervecera and the people around her.
- One last note: some elements of the conservative movement won’t let go of the horrible “injustice” delivered onto Rush Limbaugh. The latest is this bit from a group called CURE. Yep, apparently Limbaugh is the moral equivalent of school children being blocked from going to school because of their race and racist things Margaret Sanger said decades ago are more relevant than racist things Limbaugh says now.
Hey, they won’t let me have an NFL team either. I’m marching on Washington. Who’s with me?
5 Comments
October 26th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Ted,
You are aware the Police and Fire are funded from the general fund. They can not have a special funding source because of the Constitution and appellate court decisions. This is not an unfunded mandate and to say so would show ignorance of the law.
I am hearing allegations that Fimbres, to put it nicely, lost about $275,000 that was slated for police agency’s to cover DUI expenses and he is under forensic audit. If these allegations are true I think I will ask for my ballot back so I can vote for him as he would be right in step with the rest of those knuckleheads on the City Council.
October 26th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Walt-
Great, but why do the people pushing Prop 200 continue to insist that it is budget neutral? Why do they refer to funding sources that you are now claiming are unconstitutional?
Nice timing on Alberto’s comments about Fimbres. If Fimbres was so darned incompetent, why did the Governor ask him to stay on?
October 26th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Ted, I’m glad you asked,
I believe they didn’t discover the “financial inconsistency’s”, or misplaced monies, until after he left, ergo the forensic audit. My understanding is this had nothing to do with Alberto but came to light as the result of a “freedom of information request”.
October 26th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Financial inconsistencies, not an unfunded mandate, freedom of information?
Get real Walt!
Prop 200 directs the city by amending its charter, Tucson’s constitution, mandating the city to hire more people for the police and fire departments – without a funding source.
This shell game was tried in that liberal bastion, Peoria Arizona, ten years ago and failed, miserably.
About those allegations you make that have come from your fellow Republican’s, Lori Oien and Alberto Gutier, they are baseless and unfounded.
Excuse me Walt, but your claims, a week before an election is something that comes from Karl “Turdblossom” Rove’s playbook. It also shows that the Republicans are desperately grasping at straws in this contest.
Richard left office in March and yet, seven days before Tucson voters will go to the polls, you make your allegations … a classic political hit.
Also, forensic audit, isn’t that something that is done on “CSI Miami?”
Walt, though to give credit, it is nice that you have voted already, unlike Jon Justice, who can’t because he isn’t registered, chose not to register while hypocritically supporting measures on a ballot that he can’t utilize.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:29 am
Hey, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe all owned slaves. I mean, talk about racist! How come the Great Limbaugh can’t own a NFL team? Huh?
I mean, when it came to signing free agents and deciding who to draft, he’d focus on making sure he didn’t get anyone who was ‘overrated,’ so he could spend all those bucks on some poor, starving white quarterback.
b-sides, racism is a great American tradition. Without racism we’d have never had great American politicians like Theodore G. Bilbo, George Wallace and Joe Arpaio to enrich our lives.