For those who don’t know, former midtown Tucson legislative candidate and head blogger at Sonoran Aliance Shane Wikfors is now the spokesperson for the State Republican Party. Wikfors took to his blog to complain about Arizona Republic columnist Laurie Roberts and Republican activist Kathy Petsas. Wikfors was angry about a blog post by Roberts about [...]
Ben Quayle is a legislative genius, right? I mean, take a look at this release from his office: The “Capital Expansion Act” changes an outdated requirement that banks with 500 shareholders or more register with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The bill revises the shareholder threshold upward to 2000, in order to make the process [...]
After the jump is a release from Raúl Grijalva demanding the resignation of Joe Arpaio after new allegations that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s office dropped the ball on hundreds of sex crimes cases. I guess if Steven Segal can’t help out with it, it isn’t that important. I say new, but the charges are not [...]
I’m a bit confused about the Arizona Republic’s endorsement of Wes Gullett. I kinda thought they’d endorse him, but it’s their reason that confuses me. Greg Stanton is too “tied to the existing power structure.” I suppose I could think that haven’t noticed that the guy that Stanton is running against has been a lobbyist [...]
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,” [...]
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
It’s been hard for us bajaarizonenses to follow the goings on with Andrew Thomas’s disciplinary hearing. For us, I’d like to recommend Yvonne Wingett Sanchez’s Twitter feed. She’s been covering the hearing for the Arizona Republic and the details on her feed are borderline obsessive. For those who need a good starting point, check out [...]
Friday, September 16, 2011
Props to E. J. Montini for yesterday’s column about the group that is spending money in Phoenix’s mayoral election. Who provided the money for this group doesn’t need to be revealed because of the recent Citizens United decision. The group, by the way, is unsubtly named Arizona Citizens United. You may be wondering what they [...]
Yesterday: A potential candidate in the recall election against state Sen. Russell Pearce was struck in the groin with a padlock thrown from a pickup while he was out jogging, Mesa police said. Connected? I don’t know. Is there some rash of people throwing padlocks at random joggers in Mesa? Pearce has a record of [...]
The Tucson Sentinel announced yesterday that 40 people have been laid off by the Star. By this morning, that number has been updated to 52. The Star, by the way, calls this a “realignment.” I suppose because nobody buys the term “rightsizing” anymore. We lost the Citizen a couple of years ago, and now the [...]
I’ve tried to do some poking around about the poll that Jim Nintzel reported on last week. The poll, according to Nintzel (they didn’t poll me for some reason), was a computerized survey asking people their feelings on Jonathan Paton and Democratic mayoral candidate Jonathan Rothschild. Interestingly, filed Republican write-in Rick Grinnell’s name went unmentioned. [...]
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