House Speaker moves forward to address problems with IRC The Arizona Capitol Times is reporting that House Speaker Andy Tobin has introduced a host of measures that would set a special election enabling voters to decide whether to use legislative and congressional maps drawn by elected legislators representing constituencies — as was the practice prior to [...]
Democrat Greg Stanton was sworn in as Phoenix’s 52nd mayor this past Tuesday. In his speech, he promised those often repeated but elusive qualities of “transparency, openness and inclusion.” Talk is cheap. His oversized transition team, which he claims “looks like Phoenix,” doesn’t. “Over the past year, I came to understand that not everyone was [...]
There’s nothing Independent about AZ’s Independent Redistricting Commission This is how the daily newspaper plays the potential pitting of two conservative first-term Arizona Republican congressmen — David Schweikert and Ben Quayle — against one another in the newly drawn Congressional districts. The new maps also set up roadblocks for Congressman Paul Gosar, another conservative first termer. [...]
Within days of testifying before a Congressional committee about his office’s role in the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms gun-smuggling operation known as “Fast and Furious,” U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke has submitted his letter of resignation — effective immediately. His resignation comes amid fallout of his knowledge of the ill-conceived and [...]
Olbermann, Gallardo serve as stooges for one another Last Thursday Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne took the bold step of suing the federal government in reference to the constitutionality of a portion of the Voting Rights Act requiring Arizona to pre-clear all voting changes with the Justice Department. The 16-page Complaint for Declaratory Judgment and [...]
Single issue of non-enforcement behind campaign training There’s a new brand of political gamesmanship in town passing itself off as campaign education. It’s called the AZ Political Academy and offers a two-day course in political strategy, campaign management and public policy. It has a ring of authenticity until closer examination causes one to ponder who [...]
A laugh a day, like the venerable apple, is said to keep the doctor away. So we are happy to contribute to your well-being with this chortle inducer. It seems a collection of lefties has decided to try to pull the wool over Arizonans’ eyes with the introduction of a new “middle of the road” [...]
Normally an article about over-the-hill comedian and recently fired Muscular Dystrophy telethon chair Jerry Lewis would be relegated to a fill-in space of the entertainment section. Instead we find an illogical article about the 85-year-old retired, never-all-that funny, slapsticky foil to 60’s crooner Dean Martin on the front page of the Valley section in today’s [...]
