Capitol observers had thought the LD4 Senate race was going to get a lot quieter after State Representative Tom Boone announced that he would not be running in the GOP primary against former State Senator Scott Bundgaard. Well it might be time for them to [...]
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The special session for Thursday collapsed in failure before it even began on Wednesday (what a surprise) when GOP legislative leaders used the convenient excuse that Secretary of State Ken Bennett says he does not have enough time to hold an election on March 9. Special [...]
By Michael Bryan
Let's make this simple. The budget crisis proves that the Arizona GOP is unfit to govern. Here's why.
Arizona's GOP majority permanently cut taxes (mostly for the wealthy and corporations, and mostly without any minority party support) during a decade-long economic bubble based on the [...]
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Dawn Teo of the Huffington Post has more background on the accusations against Brett Mecum, Executive Director of the Arizona Republican Party Top Arizona Republican Accused of Using Voter Database to Stalk Woman:
More misconduct has been alleged against Arizona Republican Party executive director Brett Mecum, who [...]
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Arizona Republican Party Executive Director Brett Mecum just can't seem to stay out of trouble. Back in May he was arrested on a charge of criminal speeding and reckless driving, captured by a photo-radar doing 109 mph on Loop 101. The charges were later dismissed by Arrowhead Justice' [...]
For some legislative districts, next year will be full of furious activity as Republican candidates compete in hard-fought primaries to see who gets to represent the party in solid-GOP districts. For them, winning the primary is pretty much a guarantee of victory in the general. As [...]
YellowSheets is reporting that Arizona GOP executive director, Brett Mecum, is in hot water again. This time, Mecum is being accused of stalking a woman by accessing her voter information through Voter Vault.
In the YS report,
In the document (viewable under the “documents” section on yellowsheetreport.com), the woman who filed it [...]
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LATEST BEAUCHAMP ENDORSEMENT IN STEP WITH POLL
A new Rasmussen poll, released Tuesday, shows Bradley Beauchamp is the type of candidate that Americans want and the GOP needs. Beauchamp is a popular speaker within the influential [...]
The “woe is me” wing of the GOP should note those reports of their demise were a tad premature.
Pundits telling us the future is with Democrats based on youth and ethnicity ignore that the young grow up and ethnic minorities, even when artificially compressed into plantation districts by hack leaders, [...]
Wow!
Damning comments in the Washington Examiner today regarding the health of the Republican Party here in Arizona. (Byron York wrote the piece which I think is a pretty good assessment of the upcoming 2010 elections.)
According to a nameless Arizona politico,
The Republican Party in the state is a mess,” [...]
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
The Party of No continues to engage in rank obstructionism on health care reform. Two more attempts at GOP gimmicks backfired and blew up in their face.
Senate Republicans on Saturday continued their misleading fear mongering of seniors begun by Sen. John McCain reported here Sen. John [...]
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
As I've said before, nobody does bumper sticker slogan gimmicks better than the Republican Party. They have excelled at this "simple solutions to complex problems" that you can reduce to a bumper sticker for years.
Last week the GOP's "Gimmicks-R-Us" shop came up with "voluntary taxes" for Arizona [...]
Why McCain has a Republican problem
By Emil Franzi, Reprinted from The Explorer
Once upon a losing try for the GOP Presidential nomination, when John McCain was taking heat over an angry response, I announced I was chairing a new group — “Guys with a bad temper for McCain.”
I’m no McCain [...]
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Congressional Republicans love to cite reports from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) - except, of course, when the CBO report undermines the line of bullshit Republicans ae selling the American public, aided and abetted by a lazy stenographer news media who never fact check what Republicans are [...]
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Nobody does bumper sticker slogan gimmicks better than the Republican Party. They have excelled at this "simple solutions to complex problems" that you can reduce to a bumper sticker for years.
The latest gimmick from the GOP's "Gimmicks-R-Us" shop comes from Arizona Rep. Judy Burges, R-Skull Valley. Burges' [...]
The Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce is unlikely to exist in a year.
The Chamber long ago switched from pushing for a healthy business climate--lower taxes, less regulation--to advocating for a "healthy" government environment--subsidies for favored industries, higher taxes, more spending, light rail.
Naturally this transition led the Chamber to support Democratic Incumbent Mary Manross over GOP challenger Jim [...]
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
If you needed any further evidence that the Accidental Governor is a lame duck governor who is neither respected nor feared by her own Republican dominated legislature, Monday should have erased any doubt.
Governor Jan Brewer on July 1, 2009 in her veto message of the state budget:
I received [...]
News circulated today of some major developments in Rural AZ’s Legislative District 5 race. Good news to conservatives, a fresh face has entered the race for House. The other development being an unconfirmed report that Yuma County Republican Chairman has asked the state GOP for an investigation into LD5 candidate [...]
Tough days at the Capitol.This list comes from MSNBC, it is supposedly a resolution being e-mailed around to Republican National Committee members as a proposed litmus test for Republican candidates. So far it goes like this, you are a Republican if you support/vote for:
(1) Smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower [...]
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I know I have explained this before, but apparently some people up at the state capitol need a refresher course. The way a special session is supposed to work is that the Governor and House and Senate leadership get together and craft a bill that they can all [...]
