Rum, Romanism and Rebellion

Congressman Tom Cole is coming to town to raise money for Tim Bee today. He’s a huge draw; I’m suprised that they didn’t rent Mckale Center.
Okay, so you haven’t heard of him. Cole is head of the NRCC, which is the Republican counterpart of the DCCC (cue Colonel Flagg). Basically, he is the head of Republican […]

Last week, Tim Bee had George Bush come to town to raise money for him. No pictures, no reporters and according to Daniel Scarpinato, participants were asked to put all possible recording devices away.
In contrast, Gabrielle Giffords brought Janet Napolitano to town to raise money for her. She was more than happy to release a […]

Daniel Scarpinato noted in his Political Notebook column that local potentate Jim Click was not present at that fundraiser for Tim Bee held by George W. Bush.
This would be a bit weird, I mean, Click was one of those oft noted “pioneers” that raises money for the president. You’d think he’d be excited to see […]

Hey, just got this. I’m just going to throw this out there for y’all to ponder. This is from a polling memo released by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, who surveyed 502 likely voters in CD 8.
Gabrielle Giffords 59%
Tim Bee 35%
The memo also notes Giffords has a 92% name ID and a 57 - 26 favorable/unfavorable […]

Big news, George Bush is coming to town. I know that none have you have heard, this thing has been so much on the down low.
Here is what gets me: how ungrateful Tim Bee is for the support of Our President. I mean, first of all, the guy dissed him back in May when he […]

The news about Jim Kolbe’s resignation from Tim Bee’s campaign has even made the Hotline, who noted that this was far different from Kolbe’s non-endorsement of 2006 candidate Randy Graf.
It’s funny, I took some grief from Sonoran Alliance who said that I “got in a lather” about their reaction to Kolbe. Actually, I didn’t react […]

Of course, this HAS to happen when I am out of town. Thank God for WiFi.

According to Bill Hess, Jim Kolbe has withdrawn his support for Tim Bee. Kolbe has not given the reason, but come on, we all know what it is.
The knuckledraggers over at Sonoran Alliance will no doubt be celebrating this as […]

A couple of days ago, one of my ultra-secret sources calls me up to tell me that a PAC was being formed by Tim Bee’s campaign, the Pima County Republican Party, the Republican National Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee. The committee is called the Tim Bee Arizona Trust, and is a “Joint Fund […]

So, I suppose you are wondering what the hold up is. I mean, why is it that our Republican legislative “leaders” have still not presented a budget?
Well, two of those leaders, Russell Pearce and Bob Burns are apparently hoping to drag this silliness out for a couple of weeks. That will take it past the end […]

Here is a video of Tim Bee after leaving the John McCain fundraiser last night. Is it just me, or is he hedging on support for George Bush? I mean, is he for our Commander-in-Chief or not? Why does he hate our troops so much?

There was a rumor going around the capitol that Richard Kimball, the Democratic nominee to US Senate in 1986 and now the head of Project Vote Smart, was going to endorse Tim Bee.
This sounded weird to me, since Kimball’s current work keeps him from taking sides in elections by necessity. The closest he’s come is […]

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 […]

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 […]

Tim Bee is having a fundraiser with new BFF Grover Norquist.
Yep, that Grover Norquist.
For some odd reason, he’s having it up in Phoenix. That’s right, outside of his district. I figure, if this guy is so wonderful, shouldn’t he bring him down here so we all can meet him?
Well, maybe he doesn’t want us to. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

I’m hearing various theories about John McCain’s coattails here in Arizona. I’m not buying that he’ll have much of them. Even Barry Goldwater’s candidacy didn’t produce much in the way of coattails here (even though it did in the South). His friend Richard Kleindienst lost to Democrat Sam Goddard for Governor at the same time […]