In my interregnum of negligence last week, I failed to say anything about Sylvia Allen’s comments in support of a memorial supporting more uranium mining in Northern Arizona. You’ve seen a lot of commentary about it already in the blogosphere, and it even got national attention:
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A guy named Anon2008 (I’m guessing that that is not his real name) has a post over at Daily Kos detailing the 33 governors who have resigned over the last fifty years to refute Sarah Palin’s claim that “countless” governors have resigned for reasons just like hers and that she is being held to different [...]
Irony watch, complete with an Arizona tangent.
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Jan Brewer’s lawyers go to court today for a hearing to see if they have enough of a case to force the legislators to present her the budget so she can veto it. You can check out the precedings yourself. Don’t expect a ruling today. In fact, today’s case is just a hearing on whether [...]
I hesitate to talk smack about Daniel Scarpinato since he’s always been a decent guy to me, but I gotta take issue with his column yesterday.
(See CORRECTION below)
Check out this bit from Political Notebook yesterday, where he wrote about Janet Napolitano’s visit to Tucson:
And after keeping everybody cooling their heels for a couple of hours, [...]
As many of you know, Janet Napolitano is being mentioned as a possible nominee to replace David Souter. The crew over at First Read are hinting that she may have an inside track, but whether this is based on insider knowledge or just pundits trying to say something interesting is hard to tell.
Should she get [...]
House democrats complained in yesterday’s media briefing that La Cervecera is not active enough in the budget debate. The governor’s staff, to her credit, has been talking to members of both caucuses, but the complaint is that she hasn’t done much in those meetings except to reiterate her vague outline of a “five point plan,” [...]
There’s an article in the American Prospect about the lurch that Barack Obama left some state Democratic parties in due to his cabinet picks. The article has a short bit on Arizona and features a photograph of our own Janet Napolitano.
As per usual, I have to take issue with something:
Meanwhile, high-profile Arizona Democrats are queuing [...]
Anyone remember Republican reaction to Janet Napolitano’s budgets? In those, she borrowed money against future revenue. This led to all sorts of allegations from the dexter side of the legislature. According to them, her budgets were irresponsible and full of gimmicks.
So, Tlatoani Kirk Adams and Marszałek Senatu Bob Burns suggested at a meeting of the Greater Phoenix [...]
La Cervecera has recinded Janet Napolitano’s executive order that allowed for state employees a vote on whether to have a union. Her stated reasons for this are rather weak. This is from her press release:
Governor Jan Brewer today signed an executive order to reaffirm the State of Arizona’s longstanding prohibition against mandatory union activity as [...]
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