I will be out for a few days as I will be travelling to Washington to see the New England Revolution decimate the Houston Dynamo’s vaunted flat back four.
But, fear not! Here are some leavings for you to chew on:
- Some of Hillary Clinton’s top staffers got into a bit of hot water this week […]
A brand new “grass roots” organization has hit the streets called Arizonans for Financial Reform. These community oriented Arizonans are demanding that the legislature get off its collective rear-end and reform the payday loan industry. From their website and their mailer:
For too long, the Arizona State Legislature has debated the issue of payday loans without […]
Sometimes, there is no need to elaborate.
A fella named Frank Schmuck is running for State House up in the East Valley.
Yep.
Yesterday’s CPS hearings didn’t turn into nearly the zoo I thought they would be, despite Ray Barnes’s best efforts.
Both Jonathan Paton and Kirk Adams seem to be endorsing more funding for CPS and giving them more power to intervene when situations warrant it. I’m still doubtful that they can get support for this from their […]
Linda Lopez has taken the plunge and filed papers to run for State Senate. The trouble is, Victor Soltero has not yet announced whether he will retire at the end of this term.
Lopez had been trying to convince Soltero to step down and run for house again. Apparently, she either gave up trying to convince him […]
Cochise County Supervisor Paul Newman is not going to run for another term. Newman has been serving on the board since 2001. He worked hard on conservation and environmental issues, which didn’t win him any friends among his colleagues or the county’s buisiness establishment.
Occasionally, his fights against the “development at all costs” attitudes and the […]
Just got a release from the Hillary Clinton campaign announcing that Marsha Arzberger, first lady of Kansas Settlement, has endorsed her. The release also named a raft of elected officials who have also endorsed her: Sen. Paula Aboud, Sen. Amanda Aguirre, Sen. Ken Cheuvront, Fountain Hills Councilwoman Ginny Dickey, Rep. Martha Garcia, Maricopa County Supervisor […]
In an e-mail to supporters, Pima County Recorder F. Ann Rodriguez has declared her support for Barack Obama. No, I don’t know what the “F” stands for either.
In the 2004 primary, Rodriguez supported Wesley Clark. We came into the race late, and many legislators and elected officials had already signed on with a candidate (many […]
The Citizen ran an editorial yesterday lauding Jonathan Paton’s planned hearings on Child Protective Services. For once, I see both the media and elected officials recognize that the directive to CPS to intervene when children may be in danger is in conflict with the policy of the Department of Health Services to keep families together.
Although Paton […]
Everytime there is one of these big busts of some corporate titan for malfeasance, there is something that I never get tired of seeing. It seems that when one of these guys gets busted, they claim that they didn’t know anything, that they were victims of some nefarious doings of the underlings. This is something […]
There was an interesting bit in Daniel Scarpinato’s article on Tim Bee, published in this Wednesday’s Star:
After initially sidestepping a question about the Iraq war, Bee said, “I believe that this war has been poorly executed, and there have been many mistakes made along the way, but at the same time, it’s going to be […]
My brother was in Boston for the National Conference of State Legislatures meeting. Yes, the name of the group has the word “Legislatures” and not “Legislators.” Shortly after he got back, he flew to Denver for a meeting related to his “civilian” work. So, it is only just now that I got his rundown of […]
A while back, in an effort to avoid having to deal with the City of Tucson’s cable regulations, Cox cable sent out e-mails to customers asking for them to contact the state legislature to allow the poor, beset, put upon pobres at Cox to lower cable rates so that Tucson families would no longer have to decide […]
I love looking for fissures among the Republicans as much as the next guy. Heck, I try to encourage such things. Then I go and get a bucket of popcorn and watch the fun. I’m thinking of calling them as home, “Hey, I saw Tim Bee talking smack about you at the bus stop…”
The Yellow […]
Word has gotten back from me from the National Conference of State Legislatures meeting in Boston that our own Steve Farley has been using much of his free time riding the local public transit system. No word on what happened when the conductor told him “one more nickel.”
NB - So, my New England Revolution haven’t lost […]
Last night, Coconino County Democrats met to decide what three names to forward to the Board of Supervisors when they select a replacement for the recently resigned State Representative Ann Kirkpatrick.
The folks they picked were:
Flagstaff City Councilmember Kara Kelty - Kelty was the top vote getter. She has had a variety of jobs in Flagstaff including […]
I’ve written before about the relative anonymity of our legislators. My brother encountered this himself the other night while at Plush. He related the dialogue on his MySpace page:
Friend of a Friend: Hey…you got one of them shirts…a…what’s it called…
Me: Guayabera.
FoaF: Yeah…guay-a-ber-a…that’s it. Growing up I thought they were called “Barber Shirts” because all the […]
Ernesto Portillo Jr. started off his column this morning in this stunning manner:
State Rep. Tom Prezelski is my model.
Later, he says this:
He’s my model for cool clothes…
Uh, okay.
The article is really on the guayabera, which has been a choice of southern Arizona politicians for years. The shirt is casual, but acceptable in some formal settings. […]
From a letter signed by Russell Pearce and Bob Burns urging Janet Napolitano to sign the employer sanctions bill:
Notwithstanding all of our efforts, we understand that no bill is perfect and changes may be needed as the bill is imlemented. For that reason, we believe that dealing with this issue through the legislative process is […]
So, the Democrats have a candidate in mind to run for the other District 26 House seat that will in all likelyhood be vacated by Pete Hershberger when he makes a bid to move up to the State Senate.
His name is Don Jorgensen.
Okay, I didn’t make a mistake there. See, actually you did. You thought […]
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