Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The KUAT/AZPM story on the District 1 race this morning said that there is no incumbent in the race due to redistricting. Well, not quite: there is no incumbent because after redistricting, Paul Gosar saw that he would have to actually talk to non-Tea Party voters and run in a general election and he couldn’t [...]
Unfortunately, I gave up being shocked years ago that there are men like Rep. Todd Akin with some supremely ignorant views about rape and how the female reproductive organs actually work. What is disappointing is that people that are so unenlightened are rewarded with high office, even worse that they are probably there precisely because [...]
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, December 29, 2011
Every couple of days, an elected official or political organization sends out a strongly worded press release demanding Joe Arpaio’s resignation. After the jump is a epistle from Sen. Steve Gallardo that lists the various problems with Arpaio’s reeveship. I’m still waiting for the first Republican, or even leaning Republican, organization to come out and [...]
Friday, December 16, 2011
Paul Gosar was among the 147 Republicans to vote this morning for the omnibus budget bill, known officially as the Fiscal Year 2012 Consolidated Appropriations Act. He voted for it, despite calling it a “crap sandwich.” A matter of fact, he called it that in bold characters. Just an aside here, I gotta give the [...]
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,” [...]
Bruce Wheeler called me this afternoon (why? because I’m that big of a deal) to tell me that he will be on Arizona Week tonight at 8:30. His interview with Michael Chihak will mostly cover issues surrounding the wildfires and the legislative study panel that met earlier this week. If you miss the interview, it [...]
I was forwarded an invite to a lunchtime fundraiser that was held yesterday at a public affairs firm for Paul Gosar. It was called “Gruel with Gosar.” I’m not making that up. It was called “Gruel with Gosar.” I’ve heard fundraising has been slow for him, but gruel? What, the campaign treasury is so bad [...]
Paul Gosar tries to cry poor at a meeting in Tusayan: According to the folks at Think Progress and his own financial disclosure reports, Gosar is doing a heck of a lot better than his constituents’ median income of $32,900. I don’t begrudge the guy for being well off, but when a person making a [...]
I had heard a few weeks back that Paul Gosar had hired Alaska attorney Thomas van Flein as his chief of staff. Several conservative bloggers in this state crowed about the genius of this pick, even though it seems his best qualification is that he protected Sarah Palin from having to face the music for [...]
