Truth-Telling Brewer Team Needs to Clarify Baseless Claim
Gov. Jan Brewer likes to tell voters that she is the "truth teller in chief," and yet she has provided no facts to back up a host of claims about illegal immigration and even her campaign team seems to admit that claim was specious.

Brewer said Thursday most illegal immigrants are drug runners, rather than migrants looking for honest work, albeit in the wrong way. Friday, she stood by her assertions without any evidence to back it up. Today, her campaign consultant told the Arizona Guardian that Brewer “will try to do better with the numbers in the future,” but wouldn't say she misspoke.

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“Atomic Al” Plays Duck-and-Cover, Runs From Debates
State Sen. Al Melvin, R-Saddlebrooke, has refused to debate challenger Cheryl Cage in a series of forums across Legislative District 26.

Given the fact that neither has a primary challenge, Cage wanted to spend time this summer discussing the issues and highlighting the substantive policy differences between herself and her opponent. “Atomic Al” would rather attend forums where he can recite his stump speech, placate a few constituents and get home in time to receive his nightly marching orders from his Phoenix Political Masters. . Read the rest of the message

As “Donut Hole” Checks Go Out, Will Republican Slate Campaign as Death Panel?
Arizonans heard lie after lie during the health care debate, when Republicans staged a PR campaign rooted exclusively in deception.

Now, Arizona seniors are going to start receiving $250 checks, as a down payment on helping fill the “Donut Hole,” which leaves seniors without prescription drug coverage until they pay $3,510 out-of-pocket. Medicare Part D pays for 75 percent of the first $2,830. Read the rest of the message

Antenori Archive
Day 1: Antenori says women can't think for themselves
State Sen. Frank Antenori kicks off his election bid as a victim of his own chattiness, including his claim that women needed protection from their own judgment.
He justified his support of the legislation by arguing the Legislature has “a duty to protect either our wives or our daughters from making decisions that may come back to haunt them further down the road in their lives.” Wait a minute. The final arbiters of a woman's conscience in Arizona should be Antenori and the Arizona State Legislature? Read the rest of the message
Day 2: Antenori Does Not Represent Those Who Call Themselves Tucsonans
Antenori famously told the Arizona Republic, "Don't call me a Tucsonan. They're all hippies down there," christening a new political tactic -- going negative on the voters. Antenori lives in Tucson, works in Tucson and represents a large number of voters who proudly call Tucson home. Read the rest of the message
Day 3: Antenori to Supes: Appoint Me or Else ... and That's Not A Threat
Antenori told the Tucson Weekly: “I'm thinking the Board of Supervisors would much rather have a guy in the Senate that has been working with them than a guy who is working against them. I think they’d rather have a happy Frank Antenori rather than an angry Frank Antenori.” Antenori continued, “I’m not trying to threaten anybody, don’t say I’m trying to threaten anybody.” Read the rest of the message
Day 4: Dim Bulbs and the U.S. Constitution
Bipartisan legislation passed in 1997 requires that by 2014, light bulbs be 25 to 30 percent more efficient than they were at that time. Energy-saving carbon filament bulbs have made that leap. Incandescent bulbs have not and will likely fall by the wayside. Antenori wants Arizona to opt out of the federal law, in part because he says he fears his own wardrobe malfunctions..Read the rest of the message