When you grab a tiger by its tail you go where it takes you
Pity poor Glenn Hamer, President of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry and former executive director of the Arizona Republican Party, for he’s feeling terribly hurt and confused by how mean some of (well, a lot of) his Republican compatriots are being to Governor Brewer over the Medicaid expansion. Time for adult leadership at [...]
Brain trust trying to recall Chad Campbell
Oh this is cute: Arizona House Minority Leader Chad Campbell, D-Phoenix, could face a recall election… …Former unsuccessful legislative candidate Bob Thomas of Phoenix, who is involved with the recall committee, called Fire Representative Chad Campbell, said: “People are concerned about some of the issues he’s been promoting. The list (of issues) is too long [...]
Tom Horne rebels against his Mommy
AZ Attorney General Tom Horne says that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (requiring Dept. of Justice pre-clearance of election law changes in certain jurisdictions) is “now irrational”. This amendment was reverse-engineered to take in Arizona, which adopted bilingual ballots in 1974, not 1972. Now, more than a third of a century later, we [...]
Councilman DiCiccio suggests that transgender people are child predators
Sal DiCiccio posted a long note on his Facebook page today: Churches Under Assault/Catholic Diocese Objects/Mayor Stanton Proposes Radical Agenda Mayor Stanton’s proposal (see here:http://phoenix.gov/district6/news/index.html) is a radical left turn for Phoenix. Labeled the “Bathroom Bill” it allows grown men in the girls’ bathrooms at our parks, businesses and restaurants and it imposes criminal sanctions [...]
You are not the boss of me, Bill Montgomery
Here’s Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery’s stunningly inept and condescending statement on the Connecticut massacre: “Gun control” will not end tragedies. At best, it would simply change the circumstances of tragedies. In THIS case, early indications are that the mental health of the killer, or lack thereof, is the determining factor. That should not be [...]
Partisan politics intrudes in non-partisan school overrides
Some of the winners in this year’s elections have to be the number crunching nerds whose models and analysis accurately predicted the outcomes of countless races. As a scientist and a proud nerd, who bases just about everything on reliable data and verifiable facts, I am encouraged enough by this outcome to write my first [...]
Good to know the Maricopa County Attorney has nothing better to do than insert himself into the CD9 race
Sonaran Alliance posted an Arizona GOP press release demanding that Democratic CD9 candidate Kyrsten Sinema release a list of her criminal defense clients. I’m not going to link to it but if you’re curious you can find it on your own. Normally I would ignore it as the sort of last-minute flop sweat of Vernon [...]
