Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Legislative nativists getting clever in their dotage

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I missed this during my perusal of strikers earlier this week, but it was brought to my attention in an email forwarded from Humane Borders ...
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Throwing stones at Glassman while living in a glass house

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Greg Patterson, the former state legislator who writes the Republican blog Espresso Pundit , is widely considered the dean of R bloggers in ...
Tuesday, April 06, 2010

The end is near...

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...the end of the legislative session, that is. Steve Farley (D-LD28) sent out his weekly update on Tuesday, and in it he indicated the pos...

Scottsdale Councilman Nelssen reveals that he has cancer

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From AZCentral.com - Scottsdale City Councilman Tony Nelssen said Tuesday he has been diagnosed with cancer. Nelssen made the announcement ...

Glassman makes it official - the race for the Senate is on

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On Tuesday, Rodney Glassman ended months of speculation ( OK, it wasn't really "speculation" when he has an exploratory commit...
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Jon Kyl on the Supreme Court: Ideology is more important than qualifications

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From the Washington Post - There isn’t even a vacancy on the Supreme Court and yet the absurdities have already begun. Appearing on "F...
Monday, April 05, 2010

The coming week - legislative edition

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Yes, it's a little late. Monday's activity has already taken place, but the rest of the week (particularly Wednesday) promises to be...

Maricopa Supes appoint committee to vet interim replacement for Thomas

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...and while almost anybody would be an improvement over Thomas, whoever makes the grade with this bunch won't be much of an improvement...
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An imminent opening on the Supreme Court, Janet Napolitano in D.C...

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...and AZ's Republicans start sweating from their eyeballs... From NPR - Regarding the resignation of Supreme Court Justice John Paul S...
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Sunday, April 04, 2010

Late season candidate committees

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Yes, it is getting late for candidate committees to form, with only a little over seven weeks remaining before nominating petitions are due ...
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Trying to have their cake and eat it too, and making AZ's taxpayers foot the bill

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I'm leaning more and more to voting against the temporary sales tax hike on the ballot in May. Not because I don't think that the re...
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The coming week - everybody but the lege edition

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As usual, all info gathered from the websites of the relevent political bodies/agencies (except where noted) and subject to change without n...
Saturday, April 03, 2010

Trent Franks - coming through for his district...or NOT

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From AZCentral.com - Trent Franks pulls $10 million earmark for Surprise roadwork A team of Surprise officials received disappointing news ...
Friday, April 02, 2010

Strikers running wild on West Washington

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The "strike everything" amendment, aka "striker", is a tool in the legislature where the text of one bill is changed (am...
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Thursday, April 01, 2010

Thomas announces resignation...

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...of course, he made the announcement that he will resign to run for Arizona Attorney General on April 6 (next Tuesday) on April Fool's...