Arizona: Jon Kyl

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

"Senator Obstruction," Jon Kyl, issued a warning to the Obama administration on Bloomberg Television's "Political Capital with Al Hunt," warning not to remove the chief executive officers at banks that have received U.S. assistance, saying "the great fear" would be government management of companies. Kyl: Removing bank CEOs is a bad idea

"If you think that Washington can run car companies and banks and so on, well, then you've not been paying attention to how we've been doing back here," Kyl said of the Treasury's threat of management changes at banks getting "exceptional" aid.

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While a financial review showed most banks don't require new assistance from the Treasury, "the government appears to still have control over the major banks to the extent of saying they've got to raise capital.

Posted by AzBliueMeanie: Our own "Senator Obstruction," Jon Kyl, has voted against the bank rescue bill, the federal stimulus bill, and the Obama budget resolution designed to rescue our economy from sliding into a depression (see David Safier's post on...

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

On Thursday, Arizona's twin embarrassments "Senator Obstruction," Jon Kyl and "Senator Sore Loser," John McCain, scored a rare hat trick on MSNBC. Kyl made David Shuster's "Hypocrisy Watch" segment on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (he's a regular pick), and McCain was Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person in The World" on Countdown (also a regular pick). The Rachel Maddow Show completed the hat trick with a piece about McCain who appears to be trying to wrest away the title of "Senator Obstruction" from Jon Kyl. (Chris Matthews, per usual, babbled on about his own convulted political theories on Hardball and had nothing of value to say.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

The Tucson Weekly has its "Scramble Watch" to engage in wild political speculation. Here we just call it SWAG - "silly wild ass guesses" (with a measure of fact and solid rumors). Today's focus is on the potential and rumored Democratic candidates.

For those of you who would like to play along at home, here is a link to the Arizona Secretary of State's Campaign Finance - Committee Search page. For a general search, go to "committee search - by type" and use the "select" cursor to select "candidate" and "2010." When the page comes up, scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page to find the most recent entry, and work upwards.