East Valley Tribune Jilts DemocraticDiva.com

With all the hoopla over the federal election, I’ve been remiss in my local political reading. Color me jilted when I found this Oct. 30th Halloween surprise over at the East Valley Tribune:
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/129288
In case you’re too lazy to click, it’s a story about Andre Campos, his shady Clean Elections expenditures, and his unethical funneling of […]

Since we’re talking about LD23…

which happens to be a district I know a bit about, let’s just mention how lucky we are to have Senator Rebecca Rios running for re-election.
Now, if you’re from the Pinal County ‘hood, you may have your own views on the Rios clan. The truth is, the Rios clan isn’t perfect, but we’ve gotten […]

It’s official, ACORN is the new Willie Horton

Even local crank Doug MacEachern got the memo.   His quick hit in this morning’s Republic:
The level to which Americans have funded their own financial firing squad will be a fascinating story when it’s told. Tens of millions of taxpayer dollars have been funneled to groups like ACORN, the “community organizers” so consistently in hot water […]

Right wing talking point du jour: Bill Clinton, ACORN, and brown people caused financial crisis.

A cackling chorus of conservatives are blaming the current fiasco on subprime mortgages going to poor minorities because Bill Clinton and those evil community organizers turned Fannie and Freddie into Democratic patronage mills.   Did you catch that? 
I mean, I thought that the banking system was on the brink of collapse because investors created these funky things […]

McSame’s House of Smoke and Mirrors

This just came on CNN:
John McCain suspends campaigning to work on economy, requests postponing Friday debate; asks Obama do the same.
What do you think? Is it a smooth move on McSame’s part, or is he trying to get us into his madhouse full of smoke and mirrors?