Arizona: Rhonda Bodfield

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Shaun McClusky is a political neophyte. Hell, he admits that he wasn't politically active and didn't even bother to vote in city elections before he was recruited by the GOP to run for city council. So I know the latest actions are being directed by the GOP "brain trust" of Bill Arnold, Bruce Ash and Jim Click. This has their brand of Roger Ailes/Lee Atwater/Karl Rove "politics of personal destruction" fingerprints all over it. The kid doesn't like it.

I received a large glossy flier from the McClusky campaign with big, bold headlines screaming that money destined for the Tucson Police Department has "disappeared" and is "missing," and that Richard Fimbres won't say what happened to it.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Rhonda Bodfield of the Arizona Daily Star has a report today about the faux outrage coming from the Tucson Tea Party over being "slandered" by the use of the term "teabagger." Potential sexual slur in release raises Tea Partiers' ire; Uhlich apologizes This is known as manufacturing a story from nothing.

Let me help you out with a little research you obviously did not do, Rhonda. It was the Tea Party Patriots and their free advertising promotions at Faux News who first used the term "teabaggers" as you can see from this report below from the Rachel Maddow Show from this past April.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Rhonda Bodfield of the Arizona Daily Star fact checked, in a roundabout manner, the wild claims being made by the "Republican" candidates for Tucson city council and their Tea Party supporters. Tea Party organizers, Dems square off at downtown events. Here is her fact check reformatted:

Claim: Members of the Tea Party criticized the City Council's February decision to lease the building to the Museum of Contemporary Art for $1 a year.

Fact: The museum, which plans to move into the building in the next few months, was the sole bidder for a five-year lease that can be revoked with one year's notice.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Rhonda Bodfield, an accomplished political reporter who was recently assigned to cover local politics by the Arizona Daily Star (in addition to her education reporting assignment), dutifully reported in advance that the League of Women Voters would be holding a forum on the Tucson ballot propositions on Monday. Political notebook So I expected to read Rhonda's recap of the forum in Tuesday's Arizona Daily Star. I'm still looking for it.

Instead, readers were treated to yet another teabagger temper tantrum. Tea Party organizers, Dems square off at downtown events I know your publisher and editor made you cover this, but Rhonda, you're so much better than this.