Kozachik raises $10K, Taxpayers hosed for $1M »
Tucson City Councilman Steve “Lost Koz” Kozachik took office in 2009. He did some good things then inexplicably declared war on the state legislature and some sort of personal crusade against state Senator Frank Antenori. The same week he raised ten grand for a publicity stunt city gun purchase, Tucson taxpayers receive a $1M hosing. Guess which event got more media coverage? Coincidentally he’s just switched [...]
Steve Kozachik–Hypocrite of the Year? Updated, he endorses misogyny too! »
We know it’s barely mid October but a clear leader is emerging in Gila Courier’s Hypocrite of the Year competition: Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik. Steve was featured on Arizona Illustrated, a taxpayer funded program filmed on his employer’s taxpayer funded campus, shot with taxpayer funded cameras and broadcast on taxpayer funded transmission equipment, on a taxpayer funded network broadcast over [...]
The Star’s omelet problem, Hershberger’s bully problem »
If you want to make an omelet, you have to break a few eggs, unless you are a Republican–then the Daily Star comes after you. Thursday in the Arizona Daily Star, Tim Steller wrote a hit piece on state Senator Frank Antenori, which weakly tried to portray an “exodus” of Republican support for Antenori. Antenori is the Senate [...]
Tucson Weekly–don’t expect the whole story »
The Tucson Weekly ran a post on their blog citing a New York Times article excerpt about a working mother in Tucson who lost her state subsidized day care benefit because she missed a deadline and is now on a waiting list for resumption of that benefit. The Weekly author, Jim Nintzel, used this to take a shot at [...]
Congresswoman Sanchez must also fear CA »
A couple of weeks ago, California Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez was on Dylan Ratigan’s program with Arizona State Sen. Frank Antenori. Congresswoman Sanchez said “my father is from Nogales….I shouldn’t have to fear to go there and make sure that I am carrying my Congressional ID card, 14 affadavits from friends who know me in California and [...]
Boycott Grijalva »
I was going to spend my afternoon coming up with some pithy commentary on Grijalva’s asinine statement to boycott Arizona over SB 1070. But then I saw this video, I’ll let it do the talking: Boycott Grijalva I just have two things to ask: 1. With all the ruckus being raised between Grijalva and [...]
Quick, Who Said That? »
Match the statement with the person who made it: 1) “You can’t take a trip to Las Vegas or down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers’ dime,” 2) “If you don’t have enough money to buy your own food to exist for your own sustenance, and you need some other hardworking taxpayer that’s out [...]
Southern AZ Dem Lawmakers No-Shows at Capitol »
“David R. Berman, professor emeritus of political science at Arizona State University, said the volume of missed votes raises questions about the Legislature’s ability to adequately represent Arizonans and govern effectively.” In case you missed it yesterday, the voting records of some Southern Arizona Democrat Legislators was published by the Cronkite News Service and picked up by the Daily [...]
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