Jason Rose twitter fiasco illustrates important points about humor, civility
Hey kids! So my Arizona Guardian digest email (I should get around to renewing my subscription) reported that Arizona PR magnate Jason Rose got himself in hot water and was fired from his gig with Special Olympics for the following dickish tweet about spectators of a Coyotes game. “usc-ucla? Felt like was sitting at a [...]
Ciphers, the lot of them
ci·pher noun, often attributive \ˈsī-fər\ Definition of CIPHER 1 a : zero 1a b : one that has no weight, worth, or influence : nonentity So much going on today! Hard to pick what to write about. Let’s see: The independent redistricting outrage (public meeting going on in Scottsdale as we speak, with many of [...]
America’s Toughest Governor!
Tough tough tough! So tough, she can call a special session to unseat the independent Chair of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission from New York City, where she is slinging her ghostwritten hagiography Scorpions For Breakfast. Sure, she safely avoided having to answer questions from the “liberal media” here in AZ about this latest move [...]
What a guy
The AZ Board of Regents has a new member. Governor Jan Brewer announced the appointment of Jay Heiler to the Board on Wednesday, saying “Jay’s extensive leadership in education, business, government and strategic planning makes him uniquely qualified to serve in this role helping direct the future of higher education in Arizona.” Uniquely qualified. Before [...]
The sexism that really sucks
I was working on a project today that required me to research powerfully influential Arizona Republicans. It led me to the website of HighGround, the public affairs and political consulting outfit led by Chuck Coughlin, who is known as Governor Jan Brewer’s “brain”. HighGround has a blog that they update from time to time and [...]
Brewer book co-writer: “Single Women as a Threat to Freedom”
EDIT: Oops, sorry, the book is called Scorpions for Breakfast. Howie Fischer reported that Governor Brewer claimed that President Obama’s recent moves on immigration may cause a delay in the completion of her much-awaited memoir, Breakfast with Scorpions. Hagiography writin’ and governorin’ are hard, as it turns out. What caught my eye about Howie’s piece [...]
As long as the unemployed are going to have conditions put on them
The AZ lege has until Tuesday to extend 20 weeks of federal unemployment benefits to jobless people out of work for 79 weeks. The Republicans are balking at this because Freedom Fairy Unicorn Economics dictates that not starving people makes them unwilling to take the thousands of jobs not actually being offered by philanthropic employers. [...]
