Recession Reality: John McCain and Jon Kyl’s Arizona.
Recession Reality: John McCain and Jon Kyl’s Arizona.
Arizona Sens. Jon Kyl (R) and John McCain (R) have vehemently opposed President Obama’s recovery package, both voting against the legislation today. McCain called the bill “generational theft, and in a Senate GOP press conference today, Kyl claimed that there are “a lot of earmarks and a lot of wasteful Washington spending in this bill.” As two of the most vocal opponents of the bill, Kyl and McCain need to better understand the “recession reality” facing their constituents. Watch it:
As the video above portrays, Arizona is plagued by an all-time high unemployment rate. “I’m just optimistic…that I’ll get something” from the stimulus, said job-seeker Eduardo Vivanco. Roughly 74,000 jobs could be created or preserved by the recovery package. Furthermore, the state legislature’s budget director says that the recovery plan’s “health and education money…could help close the state’s budget shortfalls.”
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the bank bill mccain wanted to skip the debate for was generational theft, keating 5 was a good start eh mccain?
god these people just need to shut the hell up.
February 10th, 2009 at 10:04 pmKyle’s an ignorant incompetent lockstepper; McSleazy McImpotent is just plain braindead and making a further jacka$$ of himself in public. Sore loser syndrome.
February 10th, 2009 at 10:06 pmAnd I look for Grandpappy McSame’s re-election campaign to be in serious trouble. It will be very hard for Willy Loman McSame to pitch a sale to the Arizonians on why he should be re-elected when he is leaving his own state into Pottersville. As far as McSame’s buddy, Kyl, I look forward to the USA firing probe into fired USA Paul Charlton and Kyl’s connection to Charlton’s firing. Seriously, these clowns have been in the Senate for a 100 years and their GOP party is falling by the seams. And their new RNC Chairman, the man of Steal, can’t help them. He has his own problems defending payments of his sis’ company, Brown Sugar Unlimited.
Also, I look forward to TP posting the recession realities on the following clueless senators of these states that voted against the bill: ID, KS, TX, MS, ALA, GA and TN.
February 10th, 2009 at 10:12 pmSo what does McCain propose to lower the unemployment in his state?
Drink more budweiser?
February 10th, 2009 at 10:16 pmGrampy’s just ticked off cuz there’s no money in the stimulus bill to pay for his Viagra so he can dump the Beer Queen and move on to his next bimbo wife…
February 10th, 2009 at 10:18 pmOh, and we should start a new drinking game: every time one of these republican’ts utters a phrase first made famous by one of their talking heads, you gotta chug a beer. Examples: “generational theft” (Malkin); “porkulus” (Limpballs); etc.
I bet if we all watch C-SPAN during the debate on the bill coming out of the House/Senate conference, we wouldn’t stay sober for very long…
February 10th, 2009 at 10:21 pmNever mind, we Arizonans will just pull ourselves up by our bootstraps… if we have any left after eating them for dinner…
I don’t know why we keep electing these bozos.
February 10th, 2009 at 10:26 pmSheesh! very wealthy Repukes dissing their constituents ? well what’s new,I am sure Johnny Mack still thinks the fundamentals of the economy are strong.
February 10th, 2009 at 10:27 pmNot everyone in our state can marry a beer heiress or our economy would just be fine.
February 10th, 2009 at 10:29 pmKyl? McIIIrd? Give half a shit about their constituents?
February 10th, 2009 at 10:30 pmThose idiotic AZ sheeple will keep voting Repuglycan from their graves. All they ask is that they are allowed to attend the all you can drink repuglycan pissing contest .
OK, that was a little harsh, I’m sure there’s a few good progressives in AZ. My question would be, why are you still there?
February 10th, 2009 at 10:30 pmMcCain called the bill “generational theft”…
Some might argue that holding a US Senate seat for more than one generation is “generational theft”. Why don’t you retire and give someone younger a chance?
February 10th, 2009 at 10:31 pmHey McIIIrd! Keating called, and he wants his money back!
February 10th, 2009 at 10:31 pmRUCerious Says: OK, that was a little harsh, I’m sure there’s a few good progressives in AZ. My question would be, why are you still there?
Arizona is fine. The real question is why do Kyl And McCain keep getting reelected?
February 10th, 2009 at 10:36 pmgus smith
Beats me. And I live here.
February 10th, 2009 at 10:46 pmBackward reps sent by backward states, and they want the rest of the country to fall with them. I’m liking this series, TP. “Recession Reality: Mitch McConnell’s Kentucky” is a must.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:05 pmArizona’s Senators forced to give head to their right wing masters, even as they willingly turn their backs on their own constituents. What a lovely sight. Ain’t politics great?
February 10th, 2009 at 11:05 pmWhy guvmint? Relax, SC Gov. Sanford talks of a “savior-based economy.” The idea is for a fat cat to leave a wad of cash in his diaper, then peasants locate it and quickly spend on fast food. Then cops arrest the peasants who took the diaper full of cash. That would provide business not only for places like McDonald’s, but labor for cops.
That would be creating work. Now what to do about jobs?
February 10th, 2009 at 11:13 pmWill someone please tell McCain that the Iraq war he supports is the real “Generational Theft”? And that as the gift that keeps on giving that it is, it continues to drain our economy while the eponymous package is cheaper and is designed to stimulate the economy?
February 10th, 2009 at 11:19 pmI went from Webb-Warner in Virginia, both dems, to Burr-Hagan in NC. I still don’t know much about Hagan; I voted for Warner right before leaving VA. I’m nervous about the prospects of ousting far-right lemming Richard Burr, he should not be conferred career status as a senator.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:19 pmThis Arizona native hopes McNasty and his cohort Kyl fall into the Grand Canyon! McNasty has ignored numerous phone calls from concerned Arizonans regarding the budget cuts to schools in this state. Didn’t take the undynamic duo and the new governor long to lambast former Governor Napolitano. That’s all Republicans do is play the ‘blame’ game. We might have lost a terrific governor but Washington is going to be alot better for getting her. I wish her nothing but the best. Meanwhile…we have to put up with Frick and Frack!
February 10th, 2009 at 11:23 pmjaramilr Says:
Will someone please tell McCain that the Iraq war he supports is the real “Generational Theft”?
They know they’re revisionists but don’t care. Lack of education quality among chunks of the electorate provides them job security.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:25 pmYou peopple are just stuck on STUPID! I have never read such TRASH being passed off as commentary in my entire life.
If you had any class or integrity at all, you would be ashamed of the vile rhetoric you spew here…
Pathetic!
February 10th, 2009 at 11:37 pmMaybe those in Arizona will realize how shallow those Republicons they have elected to the Senate…are. They have no clue as ti what should be happening…As for John McCain he still believes the Fundamentals are still sound. Wake up folks…Elect some new People…at least.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:39 pmTim Vaculik Says:
Waahh! Waah! Waaaaaaah!
February 10th, 2009 at 11:47 pmDo Timmy you got nothing huh?
February 10th, 2009 at 11:50 pmAh…Both of these Senators are clueless, which is why I begin my days emailing them and filling them in about JUST how clueless they are!Jobs are being lost,hours cut, foreclosures are rising and even our new Governor drinks the same water those out of touch guys drink. She just had a little closed door meeting with with the Republican legislatures, on a Saturday, and cut the state deficit by slashing education to death. Doesn’t seem to matter that we’re 49th out of 50 in education…sorry state of affairs. You know WHY she had a rush vote on the state budget without discussion? SO SHE COULD GO TO THE SUPER BOWL!! Education has never been a priority of hers. She spent a lot of time bashing Napolitano and fained outrage over the state’s budget situation. Where the heck was SHE these last years? She was the Sec. of State for crying out loud!Not like she wasn’t included in the conversations.I send her scathing emails, too. Too stupid to be a Gov, but then in this state, seems like a prerequisite. There are good people here trying to do good work for the people of AZ, but they are overlooked or drown out by the terrible ones. There’s more of them. McCain and Kyl need to go. If they keep this up…shouldn’t be too much of a problem. Their state is really hurting, and they either don’t have a clue, or don’t care.
February 11th, 2009 at 12:06 amAh, but see there’s the rub. We think of constuents as the population of their state. The ones who actually vote.
McCain and Kyl think of constuents as their donors who, if they can raise enough cash, will enable them to buy the air time to spread enough lies to deceive the voters into re-electing them.
PEACE
February 11th, 2009 at 12:08 amSpencers mom….Absolutely right!
February 11th, 2009 at 12:10 amAZ just held Progressive Lobby Day, unfortunately [rather... fortunately] I had to work that day. They didn’t have a huge turn out, but it just shows the state is filled with more than Repugs. We’re still here because we’re trying to flip it to a blue state. I hate to say it this way, but I think the economy will have to completely bottom out before people will vote democrat. I’ve talked with people out here that voted McCain for Pres. not because they agreed with his policies, but because they just wanted to spite democrats. There are still people around that aren’t willing to be bi-partisan. They’re not willing to meet halfway, and it isn’t surprising that McCain and Kyl both took this position.
February 11th, 2009 at 12:24 amTim Vaculik Says:
You peopple are just stuck on STUPID! I have never read such TRASH being passed off as commentary in my entire life.
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Proving once again, beyond any possible shadow of a doubt, that wingnutters JUST DON’T GET irony.
February 11th, 2009 at 12:38 amWayne A. Schneider Says:
McCain called the bill “generational theft”…
Some might argue that holding a US Senate seat for more than one generation is “generational theft”. Why don’t you retire and give someone younger a chance?
February 10th, 2009 at 10:31 pm Recommend (4)
Tim Vaculik Says:
You peopple are just stuck on STUPID! I have never read such TRASH being passed off as commentary in my entire life.
If you had any class or integrity at all, you would be ashamed of the vile rhetoric you spew here…
Pathetic!
February 10th, 2009 at 11:37 pm Recommend (0)
Please point out the “vile rhetoric” in what I said, or else please don’t paint all of us with the same broad brush of hate you wield so well.
February 11th, 2009 at 12:51 amI guess that the Republican’ts weren’t too bothered by the “generational theft” that they produced during the Bush administration… I seem to recall Clinton leaving office with a… now what was that word again???…. oh yeah, a surplus.
February 11th, 2009 at 1:05 amTim Vaculik Says:
You peopple are just stuck on STUPID! I have never read such TRASH being passed off as commentary in my entire life.
Jobs/Work 2012!!
February 11th, 2009 at 1:23 ambenmaller Says:
Arizona is making a start toward recovery.
And what gives Arizona a head start? Is Cindy McCain dropping by the realtor’s office a couple more days a week?
February 11th, 2009 at 1:30 amYour harrassing comments toward the current Secretary of Homeland Security have been flagged by the way, benny.
February 11th, 2009 at 1:33 amLibertyLover Says:
I am in Arizona too. Flagstaff. Kyl is a sad joke. McCain is a weasel and Obama snaked our Governor. Things are getting dark here in AZ.
February 11th, 2009 at 1:35 amRUCerious Says:
Personally I am here because it is a great place to work my job. Also I live in Flagstaff which is pretty progressive and VERY beautiful. I LOVE living in Flag
February 11th, 2009 at 1:37 amTim Vaculik Says:
My GOD you are ignorant you brainless punk. It takes a real lack of self awareness for someone as pathetically stupid as YOU to talk about us. I mean when it comes to MONUMENTALLY stupid you redefine the term. You blaze all new trails into stupidland. You are one of the most ignorant and pathetic posters in the history of the internet. The scum my wife scrubs off of our shower is brighter than you. I FLUSH things every morning that show more higher brain function than you will EVER achieve. I pick things smarter than YOU off of my sweater. You would need to climb a couple rungs on the evolutionary ladder to be FOOT FUNGUS. You SHOULD know pathetic what with living your sad and worthless life as, well, YOU, but you are just too stupid to recognize problems with anyone elses cognitition. You are an ignorant moronic punk Timmeh. Give up trying to judge anyone else until you gain the two dozen or so IQ points it would take for you to qualify as a MORON.
February 11th, 2009 at 1:42 amOkay, I see that EugeneDebs disagrees with Tim Vaculik. That makes at least two of us. Any more?
February 11th, 2009 at 1:44 amWhiny trolls still think poking with sharp objects trumps reasoned debate.
Hey ben, Napolitano is a member of the cabinet. Your sexist behavior isn’t going to change that.
February 11th, 2009 at 2:11 ambenmaller Says:
Not to worry, Nappy can take it, if you know what I mean.
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Hmmm… strong undercurrent of self-pity here.
Oooooo… another sore loser.
Heh… get used to it.
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How is that phony Global Warming induced drought working out for ya. SRP is releasing more water from the reservoirs tonight due to all the Climate Change. What have you got 2 to 3 feet of new snow tonight?
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Anybody here who can translate Gibberish? WTF is this supposed to mean?
February 11th, 2009 at 2:12 amThe Republicans all have a one track mind. The only two words in their vocabulary are “Tax Cuts”. I suppose they think that tax cuts will save the planet by ending global warming. Would someone please ask them how in the heck tax cuts will help the economy? How will tax cuts help people that are out of work? THEY ARE OUT OF WORK AND NOT PAYING TAXES. And please tell me how tax cuts will create jobs.
February 11th, 2009 at 2:25 ambenmaller Says:
Best thing Zero has done yet.
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Like I said above… another sore loser wallowing in self-pity.
Sniff… sniff… I feel for ya, Li’l Feller… no, really, I do.
February 11th, 2009 at 2:57 amBenny too stupid to make sense I see. Sorry but since I dont speak gibberish I would need a translation to make sense of your incredibly stupid post and I have no intention of wasting the time to get one. Adult education moron. Look into it
February 11th, 2009 at 3:06 amThere are far too many Mormons and morons living in AZ. They will retain GOP Senators via one simple bumper sticker: GOD-GUNS-GAYS. How’d that simple thing work out for ya, average Arizonian?? Mmm? Good work keeping these two as your reps in the Senate…real quality there. You just keep thinking that GGG thought all the way to the unemployment office this year. I am thinkin’ that Nixon’s Southern Strategy is now starting to backfire.
February 11th, 2009 at 5:38 amrepugs should stop their bald face lies and say what they put into the stimulus is more tax breaks for the same folks who got us deep into this situation of hell in the first place.
start your repug invasions then pay for it with monopoly money and see where this will getcha repugs. Next give more of our money away like lint to fall st. and your gawddamn buddies at the banks. I think that about covers your chimpy prez.
then your false “for the people” bs is just pathetic, deceitful and dubious. YOU LOST MF.
you starve children, slaughter innocence and deprive people of a decent life. you can’t sit down with folks and look them straight in the eye because your party old, full of hatred, scheme, recklessness, backwards policy and surely racist and people see that in your type.
your party will do, say, propagate financial crisis, invasions and worn-out ideas solely for the benefit of your own fat pale wrinkly flat asses.
repugs chose to cut their own people out of a better life.
February 11th, 2009 at 7:05 am“Generational theft” sounds like a really good description of the Iraq war, which both of them supported. It stole both money and people from this generation and the next.
February 11th, 2009 at 7:07 amHow can Arizona pay for all the additional aid? mcchimpy is a dope if he doesn’t stimulate Arizona’s economy.
February 11th, 2009 at 7:09 amI would hate to have the john’s (Kyl & McCain) suffer through the shame of having their state on Welfare. We in Ohio will take their share and save them the shame.
Pull Arizona’s share of the welfare and see if the john’s get reelected.
February 11th, 2009 at 7:45 amLooks like Kyl & McCain are still taking their daily GOP prescribed dosage of twisted logic of Malkin and Rush Limbaugh.
February 11th, 2009 at 8:33 amThanks for that article Dr.H Matt,
February 11th, 2009 at 8:58 amIt’s rare to read something online anymore that doesn’t have a link to another article every third line.
The two Republican senators have no shame questioning Obama’s request for money to help the economy when they approved just about every penny Bush asked them for that went to wars,contractors,and many other unncessary spending avenues that put the country in this difficult situation we are in now.
February 11th, 2009 at 9:10 amBush and Cheney were the biggest Federal dollar spenders of all time, yet they were supported and backed by the same two senators who are now crying foul.
After all, this big economic problem that Obama is trying now to solve was created by Republicans,and they cannot escape from this,because it was under their watch in the White House,the Senate and the House.
I totally dig these ‘Recession Reality’ clips. I wonder how the citizens of Arizona, waiting on line for a job at the Target warehouse, would feel if their state didn’t recieve a dime of the stimulus package money? President Obama should go there – it would be very interesting to see what McGrampy would do.
February 11th, 2009 at 9:16 amI would guess that Arizona receives more money back from Washington DC than is sends to Washington DC, what with all of the seniors living there. Those seniors should also help stabilize the economy in Arizona. So, why is Arizona being so hard-hit by this recession? Could it be because they are being poorly represented by the likes of McCain and Kyl? That is certainly a strong possibility.
February 11th, 2009 at 9:21 amYou have to give these two jokers (and their buddies) credit. They are salesmen of the first order. Or even better, some of the best grifters ever known.
First they manage to send billions of dollars out of our country funding an unnecessary war. Then they continue to spend every penny they can get their hands on to benefit about 1% of the population. Then they hand another monstrous chunk of cash out gratis, no strings or controls.
And now they stand on their fiscal responsibility credentials saying investing money in the country is foolish. And the bulk of the con artists are from the red states with the hardest hit economies.
It boggles the mind.
February 11th, 2009 at 9:41 amI was under the impression that America “did not negotiate with terrorist” So why is president Obama giving these terrorist so much power??
February 11th, 2009 at 10:25 amCan someone elucidate ?
I just sent the following to both of my Senators:
Just so you know what’s going on in your state, my niece works at one of the universities, her raise has been approved and the approval process shows that she’s already being paid 10% less than she would be as a legal assistant in the private sector. Yet she will not get that raise and will be asked, along with all other employees of the university, to take unpaid furlough days at least this year and next due to economic conditions, and this is just one example of the cuts to the universities funding.
So when I hear you and your colleagues and the head of your party saying the state budgets have increased etc, blah, blah, blah, I really get angry. Perhaps you Senators should try taking a cut in your budgets, and a further cut in your personal income and see how well you fare. What I want to know is what you intend to do about it!
In the meanwhile, I have some additional information for you:
FY09 STATE BUDGET CUTS FORCE ASU TO CAP ENROLLMENT,
FRESHMAN APPLICATIONS CLOSE MARCH 1, FIVE MONTHS EARLY
Budget cuts scale Poly and West campuses down to one college each;
Four dozen academic programs, many in Tempe, to be closed
Additional state budget cuts in FY10 could result in closing two entire
campuses
TEMPE, Ariz. – The funding lost in the recently revised FY09 state budget
has forced Arizona State University to cap enrollment and to close
applications to next year’s freshman class on March 1, five months earlier
than usual. In exceptional cases, applications will be accepted after the
March 1 deadline, although admission would be limited to ASU’s University
College.
ASU is also closing about four dozen academic programs, many on the Tempe
campus, and scaling down administrative operations at its Polytechnic and
West campuses, in response to state budget reductions, which have totaled
$88 million or 18% of the university’s base state budget since June 2008.
The social work program in Tucson will also be closed, and ASU is also
suspending funding of its AIMS scholarship program.
All students currently enrolled in programs that will be closed will be able
to complete those programs within a reasonable amount of time.
In seeking every possible cost savings, the university has essentially been
able to protect its academic programs until now, but the revised FY09 state
budget enacted at the beginning of the month has made that impossible.
Additional cuts in state funding in FY 10 would force ASU to consider
additional staff layoffs, a substantial increase in tuition and fees,
further limitations on student enrollment, and closing the Polytechnic and
West campuses entirely.
“For the past seven years ASU has expanded its enrollment, added new
academic programs and enhanced quality and productivity at every level to
serve the people of Arizona better,” said ASU President Michael M. Crow.
“Making cuts of this sort now is extremely painful to all of us at ASU but
we have no choice. No university, no public institution, no corporation, no
individual can sustain the drastic budget cuts we have taken without
reducing its programs and activities. And I must emphasize that these
changes are what we have had to do to cope with state budget cuts this year
and would not be sufficient to deal with a possible further reduction in
state funding in FY10.”
The changes announced today, which involve staff and contract faculty
layoffs, include:
Polytechnic Campus –
· The College of Technology and Innovation becomes the sole
remaining college.
· The School of Applied Arts and Sciences has been disestablished.*
o The school’s Nutrition and Exercise and Wellness programs will become
part of the College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation on the Downtown
campus. The College will be renamed to become the College of Nursing and
Health Innovation in light of its broader mission.
o The school’s remaining arts, humanities, social science and science
programs will continue to be taught at Polytechnic campus but will be
administered, respectively, by the Herberger Institute of Design and the
Arts (Tempe campus), the School of Letters and Sciences (Downtown campus),
and the College of Technology and Innovation.
· The Morrison School of Management and Agribusiness will merge with
and will operate as part of the W. P. Carey School of Business. The unique
mission and identity of the Morrison School will be preserved, and all
Morrison School tenured and tenure track faculty members will retain their
positions. Current plans call for the Morrison School faculty and staff to
continue to remain in their facilities on the Polytechnic campus.
· The Fire Service Management program will be closed*.
· The Nursing program, which had previously been reduced from 80 to
40 students, will be moved to the Downtown campus.
West Campus (which will be renamed New College to reflect the changes below)
· No graduate degree programs, including the W. P. Carey MBA, will
be offered at West.
· The New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences will be the
lone remaining college at the West campus.
· The Nursing program at West, which had previously been reduced
from 80 to 40 students, will be moved to the Downtown campus for fall 2009.
· The College of Teacher Education and Leadership will move
Downtown, although undergraduate courses will continue to be taught on the
West campus.
· The School of Social work undergraduate and graduate programs now
offered on the West campus will be moved to the Downtown campus and
consolidated with that program.
Tempe Campus
· The Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering will reduce the number of
academic units from 10 to six*.
Old Units:
o Harrington Department of Bioengineering
o Department of Chemical Engineering
o Department of Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering
o School of Computing & Informatics: Department of Biomedical Informatics
o School of Computing & Informatics: Department of Computer Science &
Engineering
o Del E. Webb School of Construction
o Department of Electrical Engineering
o Department of Industrial, Systems, and Operations Engineering
o School of Materials
o Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
New Units:
o School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, which includes the
Harrington program in bioengineering.
o School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, which
includes the Del E. Webb School of Construction.
o School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering
o School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
o School of Materials
o School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
· The Clinical Laboratory Sciences program will be closed.*
· The W. P. Carey School’s MBA Sports Business Specialization will
not be offered after the completion of the 2009-10 academic year.
University administrators said they regretted having to make these cuts but
the magnitude of the reduction in state funding left no alternatives. The
new FY09 budget, after a reduction of $88 million in state funding, reduces
ASU’s per-student funding from the state general fund to what it was 10
years ago. ASU received $7,976 per student in 2008. The $6,500 per student
the university receives for 2009 is only $4 more per student than it
received in 1998.
In addition to these changes, another three dozen academic programs have
stopped taking student applications and the process of disestablishing them
has begun (a detailed list is attached).
In recent months ASU has taken a number of actions to compensate for the
reduction in state funding including:
· More than 550 staff positions have been eliminated, including four
deans’ positions and almost two dozen academic department chair positions.
· More than 200 faculty associate positions have been eliminated.
· Ten- to 15-day furloughs have been implemented for all employees,
including the president, provost, vice presidents, deans, varsity coaches
and faculty.
· The number of nursing students the university can admit has been
reduced by 80 a year, decreasing the total number of nursing students in the
four-year program from 2,000 to 1,640.
· A wide variety of cost-saving measures, from the reduction of
purchases, to energy conservation to a hiring freeze, have been implemented.
Among the changes to academic units that have been previously announced:
· The School of Global Management and Leadership at West was merged
with the Carey School.
· The School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and programs in the
Department of Recreation and Tourism Management at West will be moved
downtown in the fall 2009.
· The College of Technology and Innovation merged six academic
departments into three.
· The School of Educational Innovation and Teacher Preparation is
being disestablished and all teacher preparation and undergraduate education
programs university-wide will be consolidated into the College of Teacher
Education and Leadership. The Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School
of Education is being established to administer graduate-level education
programs except those related to teacher preparation*.
· The College of Design and the Herberger College of the Arts were
merged into the Herberger Institute of Design and The Arts*.
*(Pending approval of the Arizona Board of Regents and consultation with the
February 11th, 2009 at 10:28 amASU University Senate)
Arizona has a strong Mormon influence, Tempe for example is home to one of their magical temples, and there is a lot of the state that is controlled from the church. These people vote as a solid bloc, and solidly Repugnant. Think of a mini-Utah in the middle of AZ.
That and the throw back redneck communities that get their “news” and opinions spoon fed from Rush and Fox News.
It is the greatest state to live in though, if you can get past the regressive idiots.
RUCerous, if you are still around, you would love it here. Great fishing, great weather, 4 hours from incredible deep sea fishing and diving, the biggest elk in the world, and we have the Grand Canyon which is truly Grand.
February 11th, 2009 at 10:49 amDon’t forget the polygamist in the Colorado City area who have a mandate called “bleed the beast” which means drain the government; they’ve been living on food stamsp/welfare/shut down public schools…of course, McCain and Kyl pretend to know nothing, while Neapolitan and Terry Goddard went after the Jeff’s compound/back taxes/kids back in schools. We also have the Mecheam crime family and Quayle Klan, the gentleman rednecks who keep Arpiao in office.
Arizona politics is an underground crime syndicate that we can’t seem to vote out of office no matter how many dem’s vote. Today, Janet Brewer’s fundie crew started legislation to hack away abortion rights. Arpiao paraded 200 illegals in chains down the street yesterday. It’s getting very evil down here and worse every day. SOS.
February 11th, 2009 at 3:40 pmArizona’s new budget, under our new Republican (without a college degree) governor slashes funds for education, social services, and the park system, Additional sources of revenue were not considered. Past efforts to increase the state liquor tax (Arizona’s is 16% below the national average) ran up against the stone wall of Cindy McCain’s beer distributorship, Hensley & Co. John Kyl opposed equal pay for women legislation because it would create lawsuits (I would fervently hope so!); McCain said women should just get more education and training. Time for these guys to go write their books.
February 12th, 2009 at 11:48 pm