Well, our next special session has been called. Whether it actually will accomplish something or will be a series of ten-minute “pledge and pray” sessions remains to be seen.
(Yep, each day’s business opens with a prayer. To paraphrase Mo Udall’s old joke: the chaplain looks out at the assembled legislators [...]
I could call this self parody, but for AZ legislators of the Republican persuasion, it's business as usual.
You probably remember that both the East Valley Trib and the Republic ran a number of investigative articles starting a few months back exposing all kinds of problems with the tuition' [...]
Over the summer, the Arizona Daily Star implied that certain Arizona legislators were taking orders from Grover Norquist on the issue of not raising taxes “Are no-new-tax lawmakers merely puppets?” (an editorial so error-ridden that the Star had to correct themselves not once but [...]
Idiot's Guides have been big over the past few years. Goldwater Institute has created one for Republican legislators, a list it calls 100 Ideas for 100 Days: Budget Solutions and Ideas for State Elected Officials.
To be fair, nowhere does G.I. say Dems can't use it as well, [...]
... industry lobbyists pushed through a special law in 2000 allowing them to charge fees that far [...]
by Matthew Ladner, Ph.D.
Goldwater Institute
The movie Zombieland delivers a humorous take on the zombie movie genre. The protagonist has survived the outbreak of zombie-ism by following a set of self-developed rules. Rule number one: cardio. You must stay in shape so you can out run the zombies [...]
Earth to U of A: if you are going to have President Robert Shelton make the rounds doing the “Republicans hate education” chant:
“sadly, we also have legislators in this state who not only fail to grasp the value of a highly-educated, technologically literate citizenry; they actively work to suppress [...]
by David Safier
The Rs planned to cut $144 million in soft capital funding from district schools. The snafu Thursday only delayed the move.
But now some legislators are asking, Why aren't charter schools feeling the budget ax as well?
Here is among the lamest reasons imaginable for not making cuts to' [...]
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Republicans have controlled the Arizona House since 1967 -- 42 years. And with a few short-lived exceptions, Republicans have controlled the Arizona Senate during the same period of time. Arizona's governors, Republicans and Democrats alike, have been hostage to Republican legislators.
With this kind of iron-fisted control over' [...]
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Nothing is ever the fault of Republicans (just ask our governor and legislators). And nobody shirks personal responsibility better than Sarah Palin. "True Americans" (white American Christian conservatives) are the true victims. And Sarah Palin in 2012 would allow conservatives to snatch "victimry" from the jaws of their defeat.
[...]Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Earlier this year, the Accidental Governor and several Republican state legislators toyed with the idea of rejecting federal stimulus aid to the state. It was purely ideological grandstanding. Wiser heads prevailed and Arizona accepted the federal stimulus aid. The current budget deficit would have been far worse without the federal [...]
