Trent Franks.
By now I’m sure y’all are aware of his recent comment:
FRANK: In this country, we had slavery for God knows how long. And now we look back on it and we say “How brave were they? What was the matter with them? You know, I can’t believe, you know, four million slaves. This is incredible.” [...]
Buh bye for now HB2701
This afternoon the lege killed the solar jobs killing bill.
House Bill 2701 was killed two days after hearing from several solar companies, including Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd., which threatened to abandon plans to locate a factory in Goodyear.
The bill was seen as a potential showdown with the Arizona Corporation Commission, which had [...]
Abbreviated version of Sen. McCain on Sunday Square Off this morning.
Just got home from a weekend trip to Lake Havasu City. This morning Mark and I watched Sunday Square Off on Channel 12 (they get the Phoenix channel there) from our room.
Good job to Brahm Resnik, who did his best not to let McCain slide with his talking points on government spending. [...]
Why is Andy Thomas waiting so long to resign?
Michael Kiefer and Yvonne Wingett have an article up at the Republic about Andy Thomas’ expected departure from his position as Maricopa County Attorney. I knew that Thomas was collecting signatures for state AG as an exploratory candidate but I didn’t know this:
Bill Montgomery, a Thomas employee, and attorney Jason “Jay” Beckstead [...]
Tuesday Energy: The most important race in AZ for an office you’ve never heard of.
CAWCD. The Central Arizona Water Conservation District. There are 15 members on the board and they are elected. Here’s what they do:
The Central Arizona Water Conservation District acts as a Board of Directors for CAP and as primary managers of Arizona’s Colorado River water entitlement.
The Board is responsible for system maintenance and [...]
John McCain’s brother pwns a teabagger
Pulled this off a rightie blog:
To Arizona Tea Party Groups.
As a former member of Senator John McCain’s Presidential campaign, (The Senior enlisted military advisor for retired military endorsements on his website) I have just told Senator McCain I cannot support and will not help him with his current senate campaign.
Instead I am backing [...]
I’m sorry, Arizona, but we can’t stupid our way out of this mess either
A commenter to a local RW blog vomited forth this pearl of wisdom:
You can’t tax and spend your way to either a recovery or a balanced budget. jan (sic), please step aside with the other RINO’s and let the fiscal conservatives fix the mess Napolitano made and you continued.
Why are they getting away with [...]