Arizona: Jim Click

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Shaun McClusky saved his biggest lie for last, after the local media has gone into its "black out" of election coverage on the Friday preceding election day. We don't have such a stupid policy here. You have the right to know.

This latest action is directed by the GOP "brain trust" of Bill Arnold, Bruce Ash and Jim Click (who spoke to volunteers walking for McClusky on Saturday, according to his campaign web site). This has their brand of Roger Ailes/Lee Atwater/Karl Rove "politics of personal destruction" fingerprints all over it. The kid really doesn't like this.

I received two large glossy attack mail pieces on Saturday from the McClusky campaign (despite having already voted), one with a big, bold headline screaming that "Fimbres even had 'secret bank accounts,'" citing an Arizona Daily Star article and an East Valley Tribune article -- selectively quoted and taken entirely out of context to once again suggest in the minds of voters that Richard Fimbres was somehow engaged in illegal conduct while he was an officer of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), to make the scary Halloween claim that "we can't trust Richard Hombres with public money.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

With the self-inflicted death of the newspaper industry, Tucson is left with only one daily newspaper, the Arizona Daily Star, and one weekly newspaper, the Tucson Weekly. Both newspapers have weighed in with their endorsements of Tucson ballot propositions.

The Arizona Daily Star first provides an explanation of Prop. 400 lets city spend the revenue it gets:

Proposition 400, known as the "home rule" option, just lets the city spend what it already takes in, even if that is more than what would normally be allowed by the state, based on a formula that takes into account population growth and inflation.

This year the city will go over the limit by about $21million, which city voters authorized in Tucson's first home-rule election in 2005.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

A Republican campaign worker dropped off walk pieces for the GOP Tucson Council Council candidates at my door today. (I understand that Republicans have $1 million to drop on this city council race and have the money to piss away on Democratic voters). Well, I'll make you pay for littering my doorstep with your trash.

Time for a Fact Check, since the practically useless Arizona Daily Starsure as hell won't do it. Too much advertising money is being spent by GOP money-man Jim Click lately on full page color ads. If you believe advertising revenue does not affect news content, I've got some ocean-front property in Arizona I'd like to sell you.

by David Safier
I've mentioned before that Al Melvin didn't sign the recent No Tax Pledge, even though he supported it earlier, because he liked the idea of new taxes to improve local roads. He was absolutely against taxes . . . until his backside met too many potholes. "I feel my pain," he muttered and supported the tax.

Most conservatives, I've found, are "limited self interest liberals." They support government spending to help themselves, their families, people who give money to their campaigns and rich people in general, but they stand proud and strong against government giveaways to anyone unfortunate enough to have problems they can't relate to.