Arizona: Tedski

by David Safier I've heard rumors to this effect over the past month, and I guess Tedski has heard them as well. A question fresh from the rumor mill: is Vic Williams contemplating a primary run against Al Melvin? It...

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.

by David Safier

The Gila Courier, a right wing blog/news site (take your pick) printed what it thought was a version of an op ed Lisa Suarez published in the Star saying people should vote for Prop 200. The version on the Courier site had Suarez making a comment implying City Manager Mike Letcher drinks too much.

Jim Nintzel at the Weekly caught it and got an email from Suarez saying she didn't write that version.

The Gila Courier made a mistake for reasons that may be perfectly innocent. Then again, maybe it had ulterior motives. I have no idea either way.

So what did the Courier do? It took the version of the op ed down from the website without explanation or apology, at least not one anyone can find.

by David Safier

This just out: The Goldwater Institute opposes Prop 200:

Proposition 200 would mandate hiring scores of new government employees without requiring spending be reduced elsewhere or imposing any incentive for good performance or consequence for bad performance. This won’t put public safety first, it will just bloat city government.

(Hat tip to Tedski at R Cubed.)