Phoenix, AZ
Joined December 2007
Tony Cani retweeted
Imagine mocking a guy for knowing how to buy a cord of wood when literally the top story in the Boston Globe this AM was how New Englanders are stockpiling cords of wood because they can't pay their electricity, natural gas and oil bills in Donald Trump's economy.
Bill Green’s latest ad for Susan Collins made my jaw drop. A pathetic end to both of their careers. Mainers will reject these despicable attacks next Tuesday.
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Tony Cani retweeted
For when the next time a Republican uses the term "redistribution of wealth" as a pejorative
"We estimate that Mr Trump’s policies will cost the poorest tenth of American households, with average income after taxes and transfers of around $37,000, almost 3% of their income. The richest tenth, with average after-tax incomes of nearly $500,000, will gain nearly 3% (see chart 1). Households in the middle, with average income of roughly $100,000, lose more than $400"
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Tony Cani retweeted
Replying to @ThomasGalvin
The other problem I see is, what happens if and when the school district needs the recorder’s office to run an election? They wouldn’t be able to because the chief of staff’s contract automatically creates a conflict of interest. He wouldn’t be able to do any of the functions the recorder’s chief of staff is charged by statute with discharging
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Justin Heap’s Chief of Staff Sam Stone is paid over $150k for a full time tax funded job at Maricopa @RecordersOffice overseeing critical parts of our election system. BUT at same time he has a $99k over 9 months tax funded job with a school district? 12news.com/article/news/poli…
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It’s worth noting the Cartwright contract for Sam Stone is worth $99k because if it was worth $100k the board would have had to vote on it publicly. Seems the district wanted to keep this quiet to avoid public outrage.
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And since Stone is a contractor I’m assuming he tracks his hours at both jobs and has to document the work he does. Right? Hey @Hernandez4AZ & @azjustinheap, better make sure he’s turning in those reports to you, because I’m going to be requesting them via public records request on the regular.
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Hobbs didn’t pay for street corner signs when she ran for sec of state. She won. She didn’t pay for street signs in 22. She won. She isn’t paying for them this time either. It’s a strategic choice and one I agree with. It saves money on all the printing and rebar and install and take down and after storm maintenance. No knock to those who do buy signs, but using how many a campaign has installed around town as some kind of measure of public support is really silly.
I live in Gilbert, Arizona. Over the past several weeks, I’ve driven through nearly every city and town in Maricopa County. I have yet to see a single Katie Hobbs sign.
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And for those of you outside AZ, we are maybe the only state in the country that allows the kind of huge street and corner signs in the public right of way that we are talking about here. You almost certainly don’t have context for what it’s like and none of the studies people site on the effectiveness of signs are about the az style signs. Here corners have like a dozen at least that are 8 times bigger than the ones you are used to in your yards where you live. Here is an example from a few years ago.
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Maybe @votewarren will win this election for AZAG. But if he does it won’t be due to anything he is doing. It seems he’s spending the final stretch sitting and staring at twitter and crashing out. He’s so undisciplined he just retweeted the actual video of an attack ad against him. The people he is paying to run his campaign are either bad at this and/or have just given up on getting him to be a productive candidate in the finals weeks.
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Agree. But this was a 2024 fix. The problem has expanded well beyond the fraudulent scam PACs.
We all need to target scam PACs next cycle. They steal millions from well-intentioned donors who want to make a difference.
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Great work @GovofCO. She’s going to be making so much money pushing lies if Dems win big this cycle. The grifter “they stole the election!” economy is priming its engines herring ready for a roaring restart.
Former Colorado election official Tina Peter ordered security cameras be turned off and gave an outsider fake credentials. 60 Minutes’ Bill Whitaker asks her: “Did you break the law?” cbsn.ws/4exx5PT
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Arizona's Chirst Church of the Valley and one of the largest churches in the nation just told its members to go vote! Pastor preached about the Holy Spirit this morning and said Christians need to stop sitting on sidelines.
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I suspect there is a potentially more important side effect to the glut of unsolicited and panic driven text fundraising that inundates our most committed supporters: diminishing views of the Democratic Party at large.
Voters are receiving so many political texts, calls and mailers that some are reconsidering ever donating to a campaign again “I must get at least 10-20 texts A DAY from literally every single candidate in the country," a voter said " huffpost.com/entry/voters-in…
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It also probably hurts our contact rates when it comes to ballot chasing and not to mention vol recruitment. I think it remains a huge problem. The consultants and campaigns won't stop doing this, I bet even if studies showed my theories are correct.
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Personally I've suggested to elected officials and consumer regulators that they should just crack down on the practice. It would be VERY popular with the public. I never would have said this a decade ago, but we should eliminate loopholes campaigns get to spam rules and force texters and their platforms to disclose more information about their data sources and who they are sharing your data with. We also need to hold political texts to the same standards we hold businesses about making false claims to juice responses.
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Tony Cani retweeted
Lots of people are asking me where to give money - go to the DLCC's target races page and pick whoever you like best! Your $ will make an impact and get put to use immediately. We've gotten our asses kicked for years at the state leg level. Help stop it. dlcc.org/races/
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Anyone claiming early voting trends are pointing to a particular outcome is probably: 1. An election denier setting the stage for another round of some b.s. stolen election narrative. 2. An operative working for or against a candidate. Stay the course. Vote.
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Folks. Vote harder. We can oust Bobby.
Rick Scott says if Republicans lose the Senate then Dr Oz and RFK Jr will lose their jobs 🤔
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People love @chilis too. We just don’t want the White House looking like one.
Does Obama not understand that to most Americans the Cheesecake Factory is a very nice and fancy restaurant?
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