As it happens, there was a resolution in the United States House of Representatives honoring Real Salt Lake for winning MLS Cup this year over the Los Angeles Galaxy. The resolution was sponsored by Democrat Jim Matheson. There is also a similar resolution in the United States Senate, but for reasons that are typically obscure [...]
The US House of Representatives voted for a motion to disapprove of the behavior of Joe Wilson, 240-179 with five voting present.
The Arizona delegation voted along party lines, with two exceptions: Gabrielle Giffords voted “no” and Jeff Flake voted “yes.”
I’m not happy with Giffords’s vote, although it does give her a chance to blunt the [...]
I’m hearing Ken Bennett’s name as a possible candidate for governor next year. I asked if this meant that the thinking was that Jan Brewer wasn’t running. I was told that Bennett was running regardless of her plans.
It is worth noting that Bennett is in his current office because Brewer appointed him.
There have also been [...]
The current talk among politicos is that La Cervecera will not be running for a full term next year, and that the candidate that the Republican establishment will rally around will be Jeff Flake.
Sounds plausible. I have no doubt that Flake would be a formidable candidate in the general election. In addition to his stature [...]
I went over the roll call vote on the bill to impose a 90% tax on bonuses employees of companies taking stimulus money. It goes without saying that this was in reaction to the huge bonuses being given to the employees of AIG Financial Products, who, if anything, should be giving back their bonuses, business [...]
The National Journal has released their 2008 Vote Ratings. The results are really no surprise, but after the jump are the ratings for the Arizona delegation, broken up by “issue categories”. I’ll post the Senate ratings later.
An entry on Talking Points Memo this afternoon brought a smile to my face. It featured a beaming photo of our own Jeff Flake under the headline “Militant Ignorance.”
Heh.
Anyhow, the post details a couple of the odd arguments that Flake and company has made against the stimulus bill. Flake has dredged up the argument that [...]
I heard the news that John McCain has gone ahead and filed the initial paperwork to run for yet another term in the US Senate in 2010. By the way, should he be re-elected and serve out his term, that would be thirty years in the Senate, edging out Henry Fountain Ashurst’s 29 years, but [...]
For those that have asked…here is the Arizona delegation’s vote on the “rescue package.” The rescue package…you used to get to buy that for those Adventure People figures, right?
Jeff Flake (R – Mesa) – Nay
Trent Franks (R – Glendale) – Nay
Gabrielle Giffords (D – Tucson) – Aye
Raúl Grijalva (D – Tucson) – Nay
Harry Mitchell (D [...]
Russell Pearce is, once again, mulling a challenge against Jeff Flake. Some of you may remember that he publicly toyed with doing this (and a race for governor) in the past. This time though, he is term-limited and has to go up or out. This circumstance coupled with Flake’s more high profile endorsement of pro-immigration [...]
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