Nice to know that they are scared...

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Wednesday May 23, 2012 · 11:37 AM PDT

2012/05/23 · 11:37

I have a hypothesis:

The reappearance of birtherism in Arizona is DIRECTLY related to the fact that the republican's here feel vulnerable in the upcoming election.

Hear me out...

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Friday May 11, 2012 · 5:31 PM PDT

2012/05/11 · 17:31

The Morrison Institute released a poll yesterday that asked AZ voters about different issues that have discussed by the legislature this term.

What is most interesting to me and should be most interesting to you, Governor, is this:

[E]ight in 10 Arizona voters (84 percent) oppose allowing religious organizations that provide health insurance for their employees to ask female employees if they use birth control while only 13 percent support the measure.
Most telling, 60 percent “strongly oppose” this measure.

Opposition is equally high among men and women. Although registered Republicans are slightly less opposed to it (78 percent) than Democrats (90 percent), all subgroups included in the poll overwhelmingly oppose the measure.

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Thursday April 26, 2012 · 3:46 PM PDT

2012/04/26 · 15:46

I heard the argument today that the AZ legislature is just doing what they were elected to do. "They propose and pass laws they believe to be supported by their voting constituency. If they are re-elected (as frequently happens) then their actions in government are accepted by the voters."

This way of thinking implies that someone who votes for a candidate agrees with everything that candidate is saying. If that were the case, no one would get ANY votes.

Few votes are cast for a politician by people who pretty much agree with all their ideas. most are cast by people who agree with some of what they have said and have prioritized those things above the things on which they disagree.

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Wednesday April 25, 2012 · 10:38 AM PDT

2012/04/25 · 10:38

Over the weekend my husband and I spent some time talking about politics. Now, on almost every issue we generally agree with one another. Yet we regularly vote on opposite sides of any given issue. The reason, it seems, is priorities...

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Thursday April 19, 2012 · 5:58 PM PDT

2012/04/19 · 17:58

Former county attorney Andrew Thomas and two of his hench-women were disbarred/suspended for actions they took in their official roles. Apparently the county spent nearly $1.5MM defending them. The "news" is that they are being cut off from county funding and will have to pay for any appeals out of their own pockets.

So here is my question: Since they have essentially been found guilty of the offenses (hence their disbarrments), can we as tax payers sue them personally to recover that money?

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Thursday April 19, 2012 · 10:14 AM PDT

2012/04/19 · 10:14

E.J. Montini's column in the Arizona Republic today had a great quote from Darcy Olson, the President and CEO of Goldwater. Montini once called Goldwater "puppeteers" with respect to Arizona Politics. Olson's response was "I was so flattered."

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Wednesday April 18, 2012 · 8:37 PM PDT

2012/04/18 · 20:37

I first heard about ALEC 2 years ago, and was scared. However the story read kind of like some kind of weird conspiracy theory, so I shoved it to the back of my mind. But this last legislative session has convinced me that ALEC is very real, very rich and very scary. I figured that out BEFORE today's PFAW report came out, showing just how bad things are. ALEC appears to own Arizona outright.

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Tuesday April 17, 2012 · 11:39 AM PDT

2012/04/17 · 11:39

In 2000 I voted for Gore. I was still in NY, so there was no danger of him losing, but G.W. Bush scared me. I SCREAMED at the TV when the supreme court verdict was read. And I screamed at my fellow citizens for being taken in by that dumb redneck.

When I tried to figure out what had happened, I saw for the first time one of the key differences between republicans and democrats; the republicans were very good at the soundbite, and that fit the average american's attention span.

This makes me sad. So much of republican thought can be drilled down to "us vs. them" or "do this one thing and everything will be fixed". The ideas appeal to our lazy brains. (See this article that talks about a recent study showing that when little effort is put into thinking about an issue, the result is usually a conservative opinion.) The ideas also appeal to our bigoted instincts and our greed/selfishness.

In contrast, ...

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Monday April 16, 2012 · 1:03 PM PDT

2012/04/16 · 13:03

For most of my life I have paid minimal attention to politics. I voted each election (moving to early mail-in voting as soon as it was available) and paid attention to issues that might effect me, but generally found that most laws had only a minimal effect on my life. In other words, I was like most Americans; apathetic.

Who knew that moving to Arizona would change that....

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