The race for Mayor of Mesa reveals some interesting information on the candidates’ contributions and expenditures. Here are the latest campaign finance reports:
Sonoran Alliance has best month ever
February 29, 2008 By 2 Comments
Here is the graph from our sitemeter traffic counter. We are not claiming that these are unique visits, only that the trend is excellent. Compare this with Espresso Pundit’s graph on how the newspapers are doing.
A big thank you to our readers and contributors!
And here’s yet another instance of Napolitano promoting herself
February 29, 2008 By 1 Comment
When we had our first child 2 years ago, we received a letter in the mail from Governor Napolitano congratulating us on our new baby. What does the governor have to do with us having a baby? I wonder how much it cost to send those letters out to every parent in the state who has a baby. We were disgusted with the obvious self-promotional purpose of the letter. There was no need to send it, we didn’t get anything out of it.
When we had our second child a year later, we received another letter from Napolitano, this time inserted into a packet from the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust about how to raise children. The letter is below, and it’s on the governor’s official state stationery. I would hope that Piper Trust paid for the mailing and copies of the official letterhead, not us state taxpayers. Regardless, it’s still inappropriate for the governor to be using her stationery to send out frivolous letters to new parents. And it’s insulting. Napolitano doesn’t know more about raising children than we do, especially since she doesn’t have children.
This is more free campaign advertising for Napolitano skirting the law in preparation for her future Senate run, more of the wasteful self-promotion that our friends at Red State Arizona pointed out yesterday.
Unfortunately, as Red State points out, the mainstream media won’t cover this, they’re so blinded by their love for Democrats they will only write fawning articles about Napolitano. Meanwhile, our tax dollars continue paying for her to skirt campaign laws and promote herself. I’m getting sick of reading blog post after blog post about this puffery on the public dole continuing to occur, is there anybody home at the Arizona Republic or are they too busy packing up to go out of business?
Sinema true to form
February 29, 2008 By 8 Comments
The legislature is moving toward passage of a ban on late term abortions. Representative Kyrsten Sinema is preparing to oppose the law. The procedure, which Sinema wants to keep legal, involves delivering a baby feet first (breach) and then dispatching the child while it’s skull is still in the birth canal. Sinema defends her action by saying the law impinges on a “woman’s rights.” What about the pre-born females who don’t survive the event? So much for feminism extending to the whole sisterhood.
