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If bots could vote, this thing would be over June 20, 2018
Ducey’s official re-election campaign kickoff appears to have unleashed a horde of Twitter bots. To read more on this item plus all the stories in the June 19 Yellow Sheet Report, go to www.yellowsheetreport.com (Yellow Sheet Subscription Required). To subscribe to the Yellow Sheet Report, where you’ll find the inside scoop on the Capitol, state government a […]
Lawsuit to kick Kirkpatrick off ballot fails June 19, 2018
Ann Kirkpatrick is a resident of Tucson and entitled to run for the open congressional seat being vacated by Martha McSally, a judge ruled this afternoon.
Campbell defends seatmate Stringer over immigration remarks June 19, 2018
Embattled Rep. David Stringer has picked up an ally in his defense of his comments about the effects of immigration: his Prescott Republican seatmate.
Kirkpatrick, attorney trade barbs over her residency June 19, 2018
Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick acknowledged Monday she was circulating petitions for her congressional bid last year and earlier this year which bore a Tucson address where she did not live at the time.
Three’s enough for Worsley June 18, 2018
In an Republic op-ed today, Worsley announced he won’t seek re-election this fall, leaving the Senate short one of its more moderate GOP lawmakers. To read more on this item plus all the stories in the June 18 Yellow Sheet Report, go to www.yellowsheetreport.com (Yellow Sheet Subscription Required). To subscribe to the Yellow Sheet Report, where you’ll find […]
Ducey re-election campaign gets underway June 18, 2018
Gov. Doug Ducey promised Monday to make another attempt to let police and courts take guns away from potentially dangerous people if voters return him to office in November.
Supreme Court to hear appeal on Shooter residency ruling June 18, 2018
A Republican contender in Legislative District 13 is appealing a lower court ruling to the Arizona Supreme Court that former lawmaker Don Shooter can stay on the ballot.
Worsley to leave office, cites vitriolic tone of politics June 18, 2018
Sen. Bob Worsley won’t seek re-election this fall, leaving the Arizona Senate short one of its more moderate Republican lawmakers.
Cheryl Najafi: Wearing her truth in style June 18, 2018
Cheryl Najafi wanted to wear clothes that proudly exclaimed her distaste for the president’s travel ban. So she started her own fashion line, Love Over H8.
Hours on the road leads to high turnover in LD7 June 18, 2018
The commute, time commitment and low pay have contributed to a high turnover rate among legislators from the state’s largest legislative district.

That's It For Today June 5, 2017
This is my last post for the day. Starting in a few minutes we'll be replacing the guts of our website with something newer and better than what we have now, and no one at MoJo is allowed to edit the site until we're done. That will be Tuesday morning according to our tech boffins. I fully expect everything to go flawlessly during this conversion, […]
The Intercept Discloses Top-Secret NSA Document on Russia Hacking Aimed at US Voting System June 5, 2017
On Monday, the Intercept published a classified internal NSA document noting that Russian military intelligence mounted an operation to hack at least one US voting software supplier—which provided software related to voter registration files—in the months prior to last year's presidential contest. It has previously been reported that Russia attempted to […]
Lunchtime Photo June 5, 2017
The East Basin in Dana Point harbor.
Chart of the Day: Health Care Spending as a Percentage of GDP June 5, 2017
This is apropos of nothing in particular. I was over at the World Bank site fiddling around with some stuff and happened to look at their chart for health care spending. There's a good case to be made that as GDP rises, the share devoted to health care also rises. This is because richer countries have more "spare" income and health care is wha […]
Trump's Tweets Threaten His Travel Ban's Chances in Court June 5, 2017
President Donald Trump began the week with a barrage of early-morning tweets blasting the courts for blocking his travel ban executive order. But in doing so, he may have just made it more likely that the courts will keep blocking the ban. People, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want, but I am calling it what we need and what it is, a TR […]
Trump Is Now Lying to His Own National Security Staff June 5, 2017
In his NATO speech a week ago, Donald Trump declined to explicitly endorse Article 5, the provision that says an attack on one is an attack on all. I'm on record as suggesting that reaction to this was sort of overblown, but Susan Glasser provides some behind-the-scenes context to suggest it was quite a bit worse than I thought. It turns out that Trump […]
Der Spiegel Just Published the Minutes From Trump’s Contentious Meeting With G7 Leaders June 5, 2017
German magazine Der Spiegel has been given access to minutes from a contentious meeting of G7 leaders in Taormina, Sicily, at the end of May, in which they applied last-ditch pressure on President Donald Trump to stay in the Paris climate agreement. The meeting came toward the end of Trump's first trip abroad as president—and became an opportunity for w […]
Donald Trump Doubles Down on Boorish Temper Tantrums June 5, 2017
President Trump was busy during his early morning "Fox & Friends" time. Around 6 am there was this: People, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want, but I am calling it what we need and what it is, a TRAVEL BAN! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2017 The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, […]
What's the Deal With Rex Tillerson? June 5, 2017
I'm not quite sure how to phrase this, but, um, what's the deal with Rex Tillerson? The guy was CEO of ExxonMobil. Out of the blue, Donald Trump decides to make him Secretary of State, a job about as unexpected as if someone made me head of NASA. He gets confirmed, and since then he's.... What? He refuses to talk to the press. He's barely […]
Republican Congressman on Suspected Islamic Radicals: "Kill Them All" June 5, 2017
In response to the London terror attack, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) had an extreme proposal: kill anyone suspected of being an Islamic radical. On his campaign Faceboook page, Higgins, a former police officer, posted this message: The free world…all of Christendom…is at war with Islamic horror. Not one penny of American treasure should be granted to any natio […]

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