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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Thanks to the Arizona Democratic Party scheduling a Special State Committee Meeting on the same date and time as the originally scheduled event (doesn't anyone know how to do a calendar conflict check? Why do you think......
Blog For Arizona - 6:25 a.m. - 3 clicks 
By Michael Bryan Drinking Liberally in Tucson is looking to make some changes. This week one topic of discussion will certainly be moving the meeting night of Drinking Liberally from the current night, Sunday's at the Shanty on 4th Ave,......
Blog For Arizona - Fri 7:05 p.m. - 11 clicks
Arizona's biggest clown (Gage Skidmore/ Flickr ) On Thursday Sheriff Joe Arpaio held a press conference to announce the "results" of his investigation into whether the Democratic current President of the United States was really born in America at all or whether it was a decades-spanning plot to do (something) because (something) and because, obviously, the first non-lily-white Amer...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Fri 12:47 p.m. - 14 clicks
by David Safier NOTE: Craig Barrett, who is chairman of Governor Brewer's Arizona Ready Education Council (AREC), is one of the eight members of the Board of Directors of K12 Inc., a for profit, publicly traded online education corporation. K12......
Blog For Arizona - Fri 10:21 a.m. - 12 clicks
Today, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio took time out from not investigating more than 400 sex crimes to release the findings of his months-long probe into the President's birth certificate. When Trump's "people" in Hawaii were investigating President Obama's birth, he told reporters , "I have people that have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding." We never did...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Thu 10:09 p.m. - 18 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Well why not? Tea-Publicans have gone batshit crazy in Arizona. The Birthers-Birchers-Secessionists of our Tea-Publican legislature are at it again. A Senate panel approved a proposal to create an armed militia that could be deployed to the......
Blog For Arizona - Thu 3:01 p.m. - 16 clicks
by David Safier In one way, the comparison between Arizona education legislation and the Virginia anti-abortion bills is a stretch. In another, the comparison makes a scary amount of sense. Virginia was going to make a vaginal probe exam a......
Blog For Arizona - Thu 3:01 p.m. - 8 clicks
You may have heard that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Arizona's racist Gasbag-in-Chief, has a little problem with the Department of Justice , whose three-year probe turned up all kinds of nasty shit at the Sheriff's department. He also failed to investigate or prosecute more than 400 sex crimes , some committed on children as young as two. Violent crime has also increased in Arpaio's co...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Thu 1:06 p.m. - 24 clicks
The definition of "carpetbagger" from Merriam-Webster.com - 2 : outsider ; especially : a nonresident or new resident who seeks private gain from an area often by meddling in its business or politics Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley (R-Mesa) has announced that he is a candidate for Congress in the new CD9. He joins (at least) state senator David Schapi...
Random Musings - Wed 6:05 p.m. - 8 clicks
After having survived the entirety of GOP Presidential candidate Rick Santorum's victory concession fundraising incessant and rambling speech following his primary losses in Michigan and Arizona Tuesday night (and Wednesday morning... and Wednesday night... and Thursday morning - or at least it seemed that long), I had an epiphany. No, not the life-changing, religious transform...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Wed 4:04 p.m. - 16 clicks
Two weeks ago , the Arizona Senate passed one bill from their package of "bigger and badder than Scott Walker's" attacks on public employee unions; Tuesday, they passed another , this one banning "release time," in which union members can work on the clock to do some union business, such as bargaining contracts and handling grievances. The bill passed was amended to exempt police unions. R...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Wed 12:48 p.m. - 8 clicks
The word is that Phoenix City Councilman and tenacious watchdog of the taxpayer Sal DiCiccio is going to run for Congress in CD9. Well, I must say that as a Democrat, I find this development to be very troubling since Sal will undoubtedly win the GOP primary in a cakewalk and be a most formidable [...]...
Democratic Diva - Wed 12:25 p.m. - 9 clicks
by David Safier If Steve Yarbrough's SB1365 passes, any devout Muslim professional can deny service to Arizonans simply by saying, "Sorry, that violates Sharia Law." Unless, of course, Yarbrough adds a line saying, "Does not apply to adherents of Islam."......
Blog For Arizona - Wed 11:03 a.m. - 8 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission (AIRC) submitted the new legislative district maps to the U.S. Department of Justice on February 28 , 2012. The Notice of Submission (.pdf) says that a duplicate copy of the submission will......
Blog For Arizona - Wed 9:08 a.m. - 5 clicks
Inexplicable that working-class voters don't love Mitt. ( Matthew Reichbach ) Despite his Michigan and Arizona primary wins last night, Mitt Romney continues his trend of underperforming among working- and middle-class voters. In Michigan , according to exit polls, Rick Santorum topped Romney in all categories of voters earning less than $100,000, while Romney won voters earning $100,0...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Wed 8:42 a.m. - 8 clicks
Posted by AzblueMeanie: I posted about this last week. Birther Joe Arpaio to release his findings re: Obama birth certificate. The Phoenix New Times reports that "Crazy Uncle Joe" Arpaio will broadcast the results of his investigation "Live!" on wingnut......
Blog For Arizona - Wed 8:42 a.m. - 11 clicks
By Jonathan Blazer, Advocacy and Policy Counsel, ACLU On March 1, a federal Appeals Court in Atlanta will consider the constitutionality of anti-immigrant laws passed last year in Georgia and Alabama . And as with April's Supreme Court consideration of Arizona's "show me your papers" law, the legal stakes are high and the rulings much-anticipated. But in a sense, the verdict is al...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Wed 8:01 a.m. - 8 clicks
The crested skull of the Hadrosaurus is believed to have evolved for long-distance vocalization before the days of the Internet In the end, "Operation Hadrosaurus", launched by the famed Hadrosaurus markosii , w...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Wed 7:43 a.m. - 7 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: ABC15 news reported on reactions to their investigative report from Arizona's elected officials on Tuesday night. Gov. Jan Brewer, other leaders sound off on ABC15 investigation into Sheriff Paul Babeu's past: Governor Jan Brewer and other political......
Blog For Arizona - Wed 6:45 a.m. - 9 clicks
Sign up here to have the Daily Kos Elections Digest emailed to you every weekday morning Big night tonight -- while Arizona will be an easy victory for Mitt Romney, Michigan is neck-and-neck. If Romney wins Michigan handily, it'll mark the start of the end of this primary campaign. If he wins narrowly, he can claim a moral victory. But if he loses, the race will continue in chaos at l...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Tue 6:47 p.m. - 7 clicks
Sign up here to have the Daily Kos Elections Digest emailed to you every weekday morning Big night tonight -- while Arizona will be an easy victory for Mitt Romney, Michigan is neck-and-neck. If Romney wins Michigan handily, it'll mark the start of the end of this primary campaign. If he wins narrowly, he can claim a moral victory. But if he loses, the race will continue in chaos at l...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Tue 5:49 p.m. - 8 clicks
Given the general tone of idiocy that pervades the GOP primary process, it seems only fair to describe it in foolish poetic terms. With this in mind, your intrepid diarist will chronicle tonights results in limerick form. You're welcome to contribute your own limericks or other absurdly-scripted commentary. We’ve heard little from Newt for a while (Being reticent isn’t his style) But fear no...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Tue 5:22 p.m. - 8 clicks
Sign up here to have the Daily Kos Elections Digest emailed to you every weekday morning Big night tonight -- while Arizona will be an easy victory for Mitt Romney, Michigan is neck-and-neck. If Romney wins Michigan handily, it'll mark the start of the end of this primary campaign. If he wins narrowly, he can claim a moral victory. But if he loses, the race will continue in chaos at l...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Tue 5:00 p.m. - 8 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Our Tea-Publican legislators appear not to believe that they were elected, but were divinely selected for office, which imbues them with power and priviliges far beyond the "citizen legislator" they are supposed to be. Under the Arizona......
Blog For Arizona - Tue 3:23 p.m. - 7 clicks
Tonight we will have primaries in two states where Mitt Romney should be favored: Arizona, which has more Mormons than most other states as a portion of its population, and Michigan, where his father was governor. The latest polls show Romney is a strong favorite in Arizona: ARIZONA (PPP): Romney 43, Santorum 26, Gingrich 18, Paul 11 ARIZONA (We Ask America): Romney 43, Santorum 27, Gingri...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Tue 2:29 p.m. - 8 clicks
by David Safier Craig Barrett, the man Brewer appointed to head A-Wreck (that's how it sounds. The acronym is AREC: Arizona Ready Education Council), likes to brag about BASIS schools, where he's the President and Chairman. But he doesn't talk......
Blog For Arizona - Tue 2:29 p.m. - 5 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: It's only Tuesday and already this is a disturbing week of men abusing women. No, not that guy. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu and the GOP's Rose Law Firm. The Arizona Daily Star reports Babeu camp attacks......
Blog For Arizona - Tue 2:29 p.m. - 9 clicks
The Republican roller coaster ride continues on to Michigan and Arizona tonight. While Arizona doesn't seem like it'll present much challenge for Mitt Romney, polling in Michigan in the last few days has shown a dead heat between Romney and Rick Santorum, and we'll probably be watching the count for a looooooong time tonight. In Michigan, Romney and Santorum have both been hovering in the hi...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Tue 1:24 p.m. - 9 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: On Wednesday, February 29, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will host a dinner at the White House to honor our Armed Forces who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn and to honor......
Blog For Arizona - Tue 10:48 a.m. - 8 clicks
For more than a thousand years, American Indian agriculturalists have been living in villages in what is now Arizona and New Mexico. When the Spanish first encountered these villages, many of which had multi-story apartment complexes built from stone, they referred to them as “pueblos,” the Spanish word for village. ...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Tue 7:21 a.m. - 7 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: ABC15 in Phoenix reported on child abuse and sexual abuse at the DeSisto boarding school in Massachusetts when Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu was its headmaster. Babeu's own sister, Lucy Babeu, stated that Paul Babeu was having......
Blog For Arizona - Tue 7:21 a.m. - 9 clicks
From HP : An Arizona House committee passed a bill last week that would require every student at a public college in the state, regardless of economic status, to pay a minimum of $2,000 in tuition. As Think Progress noted, nearly 100 Arizona students attended the committee hearing to speak out against the bill, HB 2675, expressing concern that it would make it more difficult for many studen...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Tue 4:27 a.m. - 8 clicks
This is what you get when your legislature is controlled 2:1 by some of the most lamebrain excuses for thinking, caring public officials imaginable. And here you thought Arizona was Looneyville before . Just take a gander at the list of "38 extremist bills" that the Democratic Party has released. We're driving off a cliff, into a sewer of ALEC-sponsored dangerous stupidity. It's a goddamn dem...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Mon 11:06 p.m. - 10 clicks
Per Dylan Smith of The Tucson Sentinel on Rep. Daniel Patterson’s latest domestic violence allegations: Patterson said Escobar has bipolar disorder, PTSD, and ADHD. “I think she’s stopped taking her medication,” he said. Patterson said Monday that he won’t resign from office. “I’m not going to be blackmailed,” he said. Escobar “wants a lot of [...
Democratic Diva - Mon 7:02 p.m. - 9 clicks
This week the primary season brings us to two very different states, each of which are a source of creative inspiration but in very different ways. The first of these states we will visit is Arizona. We start in the northwest corner, travel along the southwest landscape to the Grand Canyon and the Petrified Forest/Painted Desert. We pass through the Phoenix area and its massive highway i...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Mon 6:23 p.m. - 7 clicks
Just a typical sleepy Monday here at the Wrap. If, by "sleepy", you mean 21 separate polls taking the pulse of either the GOP primary for the presidency, or taking a distant glance at what might happen come November in the general election. And even these numbers are subject to change, and fast. Our polling pals at PPP tweeted earlier tonight that Rick Santorum might be staging a finis...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Mon 6:05 p.m. - 9 clicks
by David Safier Both House Minority leader Chad Campbell and Arizona Democratic Party Director Luis Heredia have called for Daniel Patterson's resignation. Patterson needs to face the music one way or the other. I only see two reasonable choices for......
Blog For Arizona - Mon 2:23 p.m. - 8 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: When your leadership tells you it is time to go, it is time to go. Statement from House Minority Leader Chad Campbell: Arizona House Minority Leader Chad Campbell calls for resignation of Rep. Daniel Patterson STATE CAPITOL,......
Blog For Arizona - Mon 1:05 p.m. - 6 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I do not know why this is not coming from First Vice Chairwoman Harriet Young, who is Acting Chair of the Arizona Democratic Party until a new Chair is elected in March, but ADP Executive Director Luis......
Blog For Arizona - Mon 12:42 p.m. - 3 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The U.S. Postal Service announced last week that it will move all mail processing operations from Tucson to Phoenix. Once the transfer is complete, the mail processing operation in Tucson will cease. Specific dates have not been......
Blog For Arizona - Mon 7:47 a.m. - 4 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: ABC15.com in Phoenix reports on a child abuse scandal in Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu's past. Documents: Babeu ran private boarding school with history of physical abuse: The DeSisto School sits abandoned in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It was......
Blog For Arizona - Mon 7:04 a.m. - 7 clicks
The Paul Babeu saga continues: We have reports that while Headmaster of the DeSisto School, a notorious behavior modification gulag school that has since been closed as of 2005, Babeu has been accused of aiding and abetting physical abuse towards children. ABC15.com (Phoenix): The DeSisto School sits abandoned in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It was a private boarding school for trouble...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Sun 7:06 p.m. - 21 clicks
by David Safier I usually don't read the Travel section in the Sunday Times, but the cover story on Nogales by the well traveled author, Paul Theroux, is an exception. It's a complex, nuanced story by someone who knows how......
Blog For Arizona - Sun 4:09 p.m. - 9 clicks
...The big "news" today was Jan Brewer's announcement on NBC's Meet The Press that she is endorsing Mitt Romney for the GOP nomination for president. Umm, if the endorsement was supposed to matter to R voters, wouldn't she have issued the thing a few days before early ballots went out, rather than a few days before the close of voting? I couldn't find the statewide numbers for the 2008 GO...
Random Musings - Sun 9:02 a.m. - 11 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Rising of American workers that began with the Madison Revolution in Wisconsin in February 2011 is now showing signs of life in Arizona. Protest rallies have been held in Tucson and Phoenix in recent weeks, and......
Blog For Arizona - Sun 7:09 a.m. - 12 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Announcement from the Democratic Club of the Santa Rita Area: Democratic Club of the Santa Rita Area PRESENTS An evening with Randy Parraz President of Citizens for a Better Arizona and former US Senate candidate “Promoting Civic......
Blog For Arizona - Sun 5:06 a.m. - 4 clicks
Welcome to Science Saturday, where the Overnight News Digest crew, consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors ScottyUrb, Bentliberal, wader, Oke, rfall, and JML9999, alumni editors palantir and jlms qkw, guest editors maggiejean and annetteboardman, and current editor-in-chief Neon Vincent, along with anyone else who reads and comments, informs and entertains you with this week's news abou...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Sat 9:26 p.m. - 5 clicks
As has been the case approximately three dozen times in this GOP campaign (and that, friends, is only a slight exaggeration), we seem to creeping inexorably back to the Romney inevitability theme in the fight to face Barack Obama in November. New polling shows the former Massachusetts governor solidifying his lead in Arizona, and quite possibly edging into the lead in Michigan. If those ne...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Feb 24 - 9 clicks
Sheriff Joe Arpaio (Gage Skidmore/ Flickr ) Mark your calendars, because Sheriff Joe has somethin' to say. From The Hill : Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio will reveal the findings of his office's investigation into the authenticity of President Obama's birth certificate on March 1st, he announced Tuesday. Oh my goodness! Will we at long last, and for only the 374th time, know the truth ...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Feb 23
At last night’s GOP primary debate in Mesa, the audience booed a question about contraception. Each of the candidates then proceeded to filibuster about abstract gobbledygook while CNN’s John King sat there, befuddled. Santorum was particularly disgusting as he invoked racist Charles Murray (author of a book about the supposed intellectual inferiority of black people) [...]...
Democratic Diva - Feb 23
You'd think that people elected to office and exercising authority under the Arizona Constitution would occasionally read the think. But you'd think wrong. From HTRNews - A state House committee has approved a bill that will make thousands of Arizona university students dig a little deeper into their pockets to pay for school. The legislation would require full-time students to pay a...
Random Musings - Feb 22
...though I'm in my living room watching CNN. Seems the AZGOP didn't want to give out tickets or press credentials to lowly liberal bloggers. Not sure why... ;-) Anyway, it's time to hide the women, children, minorities, and small animals. The GOP's presidential candidates are in town. Well, hide them if you think the civil rights of ethnic and racial minorities (and e...
Random Musings - Feb 22 - 2 clicks
I had been holding off on doing Arizona for some time because I didn't want to have to deal with the Hispanic VRA seat issues, but I'm finally getting around to it and this is my attempt at finding the limit of what Democrats could do gerrymandering the state. I've created 6 seats Democrats should win, 5 of which were carried by Obama and Dem on average. This map also uses a lot of t...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Feb 22
If the Ohio, Georgia, Arizona, and Michigan primaries were tonight, the most likely outcome is that Willard would lose all four. That is shocking. I do wish for Rick Santorum to win the Republican nomination for President for the obvious reasons. ...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Feb 21 - 3 clicks
AZ Republicans Steve Pierce , Senate Pres., & Andy Tobin , House Speaker (right) House Democrats disappointed by influence of special interests and lack of transparency, long term vision in Legislative Republicans’ Tea Party budget plan STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX -- House Democrats criticized Legislative Tea Party Republicans for offering a budget proposal – crafted behind cl...
Daniel's News & Views - Feb 21
With no notice, the Rs running the Arizona lege have scheduled the state's budget for committee hearings Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. Senate Appropriations agenda is here . House Appropriations agenda is here . Between this and last week's ejection of a 12 News reporter from the House floor by a Republican functionary who cited an unannounced security policy, it's obvious that the Rs h...
Random Musings - Feb 20 - 3 clicks
Polling rarely takes a holiday, and this Presidents' Day weekend was no exception. In addition to the first set of fairly sobering poll numbers for Barack Obama in recent memory (whether we call these outliers or not is going to depend on what we see in the next couple of days), we also see three new polls which hint at an exceptionally close race not only in Michigan, but also in Arizona. W...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Feb 20 - 4 clicks
Two weeks ago, Rick Santorum shocked Mitt Romney to the core by sweeping Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado. Then a few days later, Romney's victory in Maine turned out to be not much of a victory, as the state GOP botched the whole affair. Now we are a week out from big contests in Michigan and Arizona. Not big because of number of delegates, but big because of perception and momentum. For Ro...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Feb 20 - 2 clicks
Wow. Romney's seriously coming under pressure in Arizona where Santorum has spent no money. Latest from PPP : The Republican race for President in Arizona looks like a close one, with Mitt Romney leading Rick Santorum only 36-33. Newt Gingrich is third at 16% and Ron Paul fourth at 9%. Santorum is better liked by Arizona Republicans than Romney, but the gap isn't as wide as we're finding in...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Feb 20 - 6 clicks
It's shaping up to be a relatively quiet week at the Arizona legislature...emphasis on "relatively". There are still going to be a number of controversial bills, but not the large number that we've seen in recent weeks. Of course, agendas, particularly those for meetings later in the week, are subject to change without notice. While many sources have reported that bills that have...
Random Musings - Feb 19 - 2 clicks
Some elected officials should be barred from using social media...but I'm glad they're not. Wiseasses like me have more to write about. :) From the Arizona Republic, Tweet of the week: "Heard the Governor read a proclaimation (sic) and she looked young! Does her husband know she left the house looking great?" -- Rep. Jack Harper , R-Surprise, tweeting under the handle @H...
Random Musings - Feb 18 - 2 clicks
...I don't often make predictions about Republican primaries (mostly because I'm usually wrong - something about not being a Republican :) ), but I don't think that it's going too far out on a limb to predict that Pinal Sheriff Paul Babeu is toast in the R primary in the new CD4. One thing that I won't predict is whether the information in the linked article from the Phoenix New Times was ...
Random Musings - Feb 18 - 2 clicks
TUCSON -- For the first time in Arizona voters may now sign our petition and donate a clean elections $5 online . Voters in Tucson LD29 downtown, south and southeast ( map ) please go to DanielPatterson.net right now for the link to sign and donate clean $5 to help me win re-election in the new LD3 this fall. With your support I will keep fighting in the Arizona Legislature for stronger ...
Daniel's News & Views - Feb 17
According to this story from the Arizona Capitol Times, written by Caitlin Coakley Beckner (subscription required), Rep. Richard Miranda (D-Tolleson) has resigned from the Arizona House of Representatives, effective Monday. In his letter, he cited health and family concerns as the reason for his resignation. In short order, the Democratic PCs in LD13 will gather to select three nominees, whose...
Random Musings - Feb 16 - 3 clicks
Here’s what Arizona Congressman Trent Franks said in an interview with Concerned Women of America (motto: “We’re concerned!”): The greatest challenge we have, and I’m going to be partisan for a moment but its reality, we must change presidents. At all costs, we must change presidents. This is the most pro-abortion president in the history [...]...
Democratic Diva - Feb 15
The Arizona Corporation Commission is an independent branch of the state government, enshrined into existence by Article 15 of the state constitution. The Commission is responsible for regulating utilities, securities, and corporate entities registered in Arizona. But all that independent authority is apparently too much of a burden for Commissioner Gary Pierce, who wants to [...]...
Democratic Diva - Feb 15
...and I'm not talking about just East Valley Congressman Jeff Flake choosing to run for US Senate, opening up his spot in the US House of Representatives. The creation of a new Congressional district, combined with the continuing fallout from the now-famous recall election loss of former state senator Russell Pearce, is serving as the catalyst for a shake up among politicos in Mesa. While che...
Random Musings - Feb 10
