Sunday, September 23, 2012
Becky Pallack has a story in this morning’s Star about national Republicans throwing in the towel on the CD 3 race. I’m always struck that people are shocked about how resilient Raúl Grijalva is. The Republicans had their best shot at taking him down in 2010, when the national mood gave every Democrat a strong [...]
Tim Stellar has a piece in the Star this morning about Paul Babeu using Pinal County Sheriff’s Department employees in an ad, even though he’s under federal investigation for using his employees for his congressional campaign on county time. I’m not stunned that he’d do such a thing; I’m stunned that he’s still running for [...]
It’s really unfair for our morning daily, known to us in the know as the Red Star, to pick on Frank Antenori for his FEC report. Brady McCombs throws around math and numbers to make his case that Antenori’s campaign is not doing well. I’d like to point out to comrade McCombs that “math” also [...]
The folks at the Star this week had a bit of fun at Frank Antenori’s expense. They ran a piece on Tuesday about his driving record and unpaid tickets. Given his jihad against red light enforcement, I suppose it makes some sense. Hey Frank, I feel for you. I’ve been there. What never got on [...]
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Here’s a bit of a follow-up to something I wrote last week. You may remember that I posted a press release from Richard Carmona’s campaign which announced that the entire Tucson City Council, including Republican Steve Kozachik, endorsed Carmona. It was my inclusion of Kozachik that raised hackles with one of my frequent commenters. The [...]
Thursday, October 20, 2011
So, remember last week when poor Tyler Vogt didn’t want to meet with those awful people from the Star editorial board because they were going to be mean to him because of their liberal bias? Sure enough, he refused to meet with them. I gave him some stick about it because, well, the Star hasn’t [...]
As the latest congressional map passes into the “draft” phase and thus officially open to public comment, I want to give some credit to Rhonda Bodfield of the Star who was willing to call out some of the whinier and mathematically inert arguments from Republican office holders. I expected an editorial complaining about “both sides,” [...]
Remember when Tyler Vogt first filed to run for City Council? He sent out a strongly worded open letter that demanded the immediate resignation of Shirley Scott. Big talk. He was so proud of this obnoxious flourish that for a while excerpts from the letter were on every page of his website. I guess we [...]
There has been some deck chair rearranging at the Star this morning, with Rob O’Dell being taken off of the city beat and replaced by long time political reporter Rhonda Bodfield. Bodfield’s old position as political reporter is being left open for now, with the Political Notebook column being taken over by a rotating cast. [...]
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Okay, as it turns out, the Star story I quoted the other day was an excerpt from a longer story about the Paul Johnson-led effort to change our state’s primary system to a “jungle primary.” I didn’t realize that the excerpt was from the same story, and so much was left out it was hard [...]
