One of Jesse Kelly’s chief arguments against Ron Barber was that he would be a “rubber stamp” for whoever was the appropriate boogie-person at the time: Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and, scariest of all, Raúl Grijalva. Well, it didn’t take long for Barber to distance himself from one of those. Barber and Grijalva took opposite [...]
Thursday, October 27, 2011
The National Republican Congressional Committee sent out a press release yesterday blasting Kyrstin Sinema. Here’s the headline: Sinema Heads to Washington with Hopes of Being the Next Obama-Pelosi Rubber Stamp Arizona Democrat Recruit Meets With Washington Party Leaders Who Hand-Picked Her to Push for the Failed Obama-Pelosi Agenda Okay. They also sent out a press [...]
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
When I heard the news that Gabrielle Giffords was one of the nineteen Democrats that didn’t vote for Nancy Pelosi for speaker, I put a call in to Giffords spokesman C. J. Karamargin for some sort of response. He e-mailed it to me, and it is printed below. This happens fairly often in the Democratic [...]
In one of the goofier pieces of political news this cycle, self-styled Phoenix political organizer Jarret Maupin has gone and endorsed Ben Quayle. Maupin’s reasons, as detailed in a piece in the Phoenix New Times, are that Democrat Jon Hulburd takes a conservative stand on a few issues, which makes him the impure Democrat. Whereas [...]
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Jason Rose has spent an awful lot of his tweetspace this week defending a sushi place from the cruel totalitarians in the Phoenix transportation bureaucracy (what, this Stingray joint a client?). He’s had other interests though. This from Rose’s Twitter feed: The chatter–Could ben quayle lose? Doubtful. But what would [Jon] hulburd win? Pelosi-play pass [...]
Thursday, August 26, 2010
The other night when Pima County Democratic Chairman Jeff Rogers read the Republican Primary Results from Congressional District 8, it was like the dropping of the Time Square Ball. Everyone in that room knew it was going to happen, but they were excited anyway. Jonathan Paton would have been a formidable candidate against Gabrielle Giffords. [...]
Friday, September 4, 2009
Our own Raúl Grijalva has caused quite a stir by publicly telling Barack Obama that the progressive caucus will not vote for a bill that doesn’t have a public option. The position that he and the progressive caucus have taken apparently caused Nancy Pelosi to later say that she won’t vote for such a bill [...]
Earlier this week, John McCain made an appearance in Southern Arizona. This was likely done to make it so carping bloggers like myself would stop writing that he never comes down here. He visited Baja Arizona on Tuesday for a town hall in Marana. According to the Arizona Daily Star (Emphasis mine): Whether it was [...]
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office has announced committee assignments for freshmen. Our own newly elected Ann Kirkpatrick has been assigned to the Homeland Security committee, along with the newly elected Ben Lujan of New Mexico. This means that Kirkpatrick will have oversight responsibilities for Janet Napolitano’s department. Hrm… By the way, Kirkpatrick’s website is up. Like [...]
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
I couldn’t find the article archived online, but yesterday’s Republic featured a “Newsmaker Q & A” with Republican Party Chair Randy Pullen. The article was entitled “State GOP Chief: McCain nomination a plus for Ariz.” This is ironic given who got Pullen into office. Anyway, what I found interesting was Pullen’s answer to a question [...]
