Wednesday, September 12, 2012
I first got wind of this earlier this week (because I talk to the wind, the wind cannot hear…) when someone pointed out to me that la Cervecera’s name had been scrubbed from Gabriela Saucedo Mercer’s website. I held off on writing about it to give Nick Martin a chance to do a story over [...]
La Cervecera announced that she will not be calling the legislature into special session. For those that don’t remember (actually, it was only the last post), the governor was going to call a special session to deal with a citizens’ initiative to give Arizona a “jungle primary.” I don’t pretend to know why the session [...]
This week, the State Supreme Court ordered that Jean Cheuvront McDermott could run under both her last names, but that she’d have to do it without the hyphen. Just to back up a bit, McDermott’s son, Ken Cheuvront, is looking to return to the legislature. His trouble is, he’d have to do it by beating [...]
I got a call from Bill Buckmaster and he asked me to be on his show next Wednesday. I’ll be on at 12:30 spinning tunes. Wait, that’s not the kind of radio show it is? Darnit. I have a bunch of old garage rock and an old Pop Will Eat Itself 12 inch I was [...]
Well, two of our congressional candidates are getting a wee bit of blow back for their previous careers as shills…I mean hired guns…I mean necessary parts of our legislative process. Jeff Flake’s previous career as a lobbyist is a not well hidden, but seldom mentioned, part of his past. It was left off of his [...]
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Odd moment this morning up on West Washington: Daniel Patterson told capitol security that he was on his way to the airport. He’s due to turn in a written response to the ethics committee today. The two capitol sources I talked to didn’t think he’d turned that in yet. Heck, he could be flying all [...]
A certain US Senate candidate has a little bit of trouble spelling the name of the second largest city in the state he hopes to represent. It is funny coming from a guy with so much family down here. This error, unfortunately, is not unprecedented. The mistake is so common that local music idol and [...]
The Yellow Sheet reported Saturday that Gabrielle Giffords and her advisors made up their mind on a candidate to replace her: Ron Barber. The plan would be to have Barber run in the special election, but not in the regular election in November. No word yet on if there will be a “Giffords pick” in [...]
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
I have been a bit negligent in checking on this session’s ill considered and whack job legislation. Two bills have crawled up to the surface though: HB2002: All I need to do is tell you that this is from Jack Harper and you know that it is likely another case of Rep. Harper confusing his [...]
No one captures it better than Curtis Mayfield:
