Random Musings

Summary: ESAs/school vouchers - protected; public education - hosed. For those readers with longer attention spans, the AZMirror has an arti...

...And for the first time in a long time, Arizona Democrats have a deep bench. Caveat: No elected officials were talked to about this; I tru...

While, on the surface, the coming week is shaping up to be a quiet one, below the surface, there is a lot of activity budget-wise as legisla...

In Friday's mail, I received the first "hit piece" mailer of the cycle (in CD1); I expect there to be many more. This one was ...

Some shameless hypocrisy coming up this week, which, perversely, may indicate a real budget proposal is nigh. Or certain Rs are just looking...

Mark Lamb, the former sheriff of Pinal County and erstwhile candidate for Congress in CD5 had a very bad week last week. From the website of...

 * = "It's OK If You're A Republican" I think it is, but rarely are Republicans (quite) so open about embracing it. From A...

As of right now, there are no committee meetings on the AZ lege's schedule, and while that *may* change, I don't expect that it will...

On May 14, the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission held a debate for the Republican candidates in LD3. This post will focus only on...

While silly season grinds on and while the Republicans at the lege voted to abandon ship go on vacation a couple weeks ago, there is still ...

Term Limits are all the rage right now.  People want to impose them on members of Congress in an effort to "fix" Congress. I think...

Silly season grinds on at the state legislature, but with a twist - the Republicans are now doing budget negotiations by abandoning their po...

Found this hanging on my door on Tuesday - The "Paid For By" line was on both sides - The Libre Initiative, from SourceWatch - Th...

From Arizona Daily Star , written by Howard Fischer of Capitol Media Services ( emphasis  added by me) - DES chief: Fraud not fully behind h...