State Senator Thayer Vershoor was not present for the vote yesterday on SB 1003. Senate President Bob Burns went public with his displeasure at Thayer’s absence. Sen. Verschoor has responded through his Facebook page with the following message (unedited by us.)
Subject: Need your Help!! Vote to raise taxes on [...]
From Rasmussen:
Senator John McCain’s future in the U.S. Senate may be a little less assured than previously thought.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely 2010 Republican Primary voters in Arizona finds the longtime incumbent in a virtual tie with potential challenger J.D. Hayworth. McCain [...]
Recently, we mentioned the website “Harry Mitchell Watch” and how that site is keeping a watchful eye on Congressman Harry Mitchell.
Now, thanks to the brilliance of radio talk-show host, Hugh Hewitt, a new political action committee called Reverse the Vote Victory Committee has [...]
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
The Special Session will begin Tuesday afternoon. My sources say that the Republicans are still short a vote and will have to play "Let's Make a Deal." Howard Fischer, however, says the GOP has the votes and maybe some Democrats to spare. Budget, Rio Nuevo on' [...]
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Back in April the Tucson City Council voted to fire its city manager, Mike Hein, for cause. Tucson City Manager Mike Hein fired; to get six months' pay
Hein was named city manager in April 2005. He also has served as a Deputy Pima County Administrator and had' [...]
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
I have already taken to task the allegedly 40 anti-abortion conservative Democrats who threatened to scuttle the House health care bill if they did not get a vote on the Stupak-Pitts Amendment. House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) says it actually netted about 10 votes for the Dems'' [...]
Despite Gov. Brewer’s optimism, our sources indicate a Special Session of the Legislature will not happen any time soon. Reports indicate the Senate cannot line up the votes to pass a fix to start addressing the $2,000,000,000 gap in the FY 2010 budget.
It will probably get even harder to [...]
Arizona State Capitol, PHX
It’s been official for a few days, and it looks like Steve Kozachik is already putting a staff together for his council office. I’m curious about what he is going to be able to accomplish.
First off, he needs three other votes. On paper, this would be [...]
Faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, are crying foul about the millions of dollars in subsidies directed to the school's athletic department.
The campus Academic Senate on Thursday voted 91-68 in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling for an end to campus support of the' [...]
Dave Perry, Editor and Publisher of The Explorer, wrote an editorial about the passage and failure of school funding initiatives using the squeaker in Amphi School District as his case in point. At press time, Perry wrote, the Amphi property tax extension was up by 26 votes. [...]
The Tucson City election was both historic and extraordinary. Nina Trasoff was the first Democratic incumbent to be thrown out in like 40 years. Karin Uhlich survived by around 150 votes; all the over rides went down and even Proposition 400 which allows the city to spend money it has [...]
State Senator Sylvia Allen, R-LD5
Goldwater Institute released their much anticipated annual report card. The 2009 Legislative Report Card scores AZ’s legislature as a whole, and per each member, on how their respective votes measured up in four areas affecting the expansion or limitation [...]
Thanks and congratulations are due to our AZ Democratic delegation to the U.S. House. All of them voted Yes on the health care bill -- Raul Grijalva, Gabriel Giffords, Ann Kirkpatrick, Harry Mitchell and Ed Pastor.
Keep up the good work (he said hopefully).
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“Nighttime. Sometimes politicians think it’s the right time to do the wrong things.” –Gabrielle Giffords, 2006
That, of course, was from Giffords’ 2006 “Blocked” ad where she portrayed state legislators via “night vision” effect as sneaking into the capitol for a dastardly midnight vote while she turned on [...]
There's much wailing and gnashing of teeth among the Tucson Intelligentsia over the defeat of the school overrides. How could the enlightened voters of Tucson--after years of training by the Star--overwhelmingly reject much needed budget overrides? Perhaps the university professors, think tank operators and newspaper editors' [...]
