BRETT MECUM FIRED AS AZ GOP EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR!

Numerous sources have confirmed that BRETT MECUM has been fired by the Arizona Republican Party as their Executive Director!

Mecum, who has had a number of ethical & judicial issues during his term, finally has been let go. 

We here at PM have documented the entire run of this 'sleazy scum bag' (See HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE,

HERE, HERE)

How did he keep this job as long as he did?  No one seems to have the answer to that question.  Imagine if any of us had done the things that Mr. Mecum had done, what would they have done?

It's about time that Brett Mecum 'pay the price' for his lack of ethics!

More on this story as it develops......

Sen. John McCain Talks Libya, Arab Spring

May 29, 2011



Arizona Republican on foreign policy hotspots



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• Stopping Obama's dictatorship

• The 2012 Republican battle test

• Dems haven't learned the lessons of Europe

• Boudreaux: More weather deaths? Wanna bet?

• The facts about taxes and spending

• The Dems figure they can win as the 'Party of No'

• Sowell: Seductive beliefs

• Big trouble in little hoover

• Political hacks

• Get government's hands off of Medicare!

• ObamaCare is RyanCare on steroids

• Did waterboarding work?

• Double-dip in housing prices worse than expected…

• Some questions for minimum wage supporters

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RedState Morning Briefing For May 31, 2011

1. Thank Speaker Boehner for Blocking Obama Recess Appointments


2. Washington is Broken, and Needs Leadership. Where is President Obama?

 

3. The Foreseeable Consequence of the “Arab Spring”

 

4. Everything you need to know about #Weinergate


5. Cut, Cap, and Balance


6. George Soros wants your Internet, and the Democrats are peddling online censorship, and Ryan Giggs is still an adulterer




7. Mitt Romney Still Loves His Ethanol, Especially in Iowa

 

8. Chris Christie’s Time to Run


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1. Thank Speaker Boehner for Blocking Obama Recess Appointments






You need to call Speaker Boehner’s office right now at 202-225-0600 and thank him for the extraordinary step he took this week to slow down President Obama’s radical agenda.






With the Obama legislative agenda stalled, the left has turned its attention toward using the Executive power to accomplish their socialist goals. The key to this strategy is to the pack agencies, boards, and commissions such as the National Labor Relations Board and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, with leftists like Craig Becker and Elizabeth Warren who will advance the collectivist agenda, regardless of whether there is any legal authority to do so.






The Senate has blocked several of the more radical nominees, but under the Constitution, President Obama has the power to appoint them during a Congressional recess.






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2. Washington is Broken, and Needs Leadership. Where is President Obama?






From Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI)


Last week Treasury Secretary Geithner said: “Our plan is for Congress to pass the debt limit. Our fallback plan is for Congress to pass the debt limit, and our fallback to the fallback plan is for Congress to pass the debt limit.” Is he in a state of denial?






Based on what I’ve seen in Washington, it is extremely dangerous to assume the debt ceiling will get raised without first passing significant debt and deficit controls. America just might need a REAL Plan B. Is the Administration preparing one?






For over 31 years, I’ve been building a manufacturing business in Oshkosh, Wisconsin with hundreds of good, hardworking, taxpaying Americans. During that entire time, I have watched government steadily grow, increasing its control over our lives, heaping trillions of dollars of regulations on our businesses, fostering a culture of entitlement and dependency, mortgaging the future of our children and grandchildren, and driving America toward national bankruptcy.






I’ve been here in Washington for 5 months now, and I am more convinced than ever that our political and budget process is horribly broken.






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3. The Foreseeable Consequence of the “Arab Spring”






We’ve been skeptical of the so-called Arab Spring since the very beginning. Months ago we pointed out that the Muslim Brotherhood was assuming a leadership role in the demonstrations and the follow on ruling claque. Given the general state of political development in the Arab we were doubtful that anything favorable, or even desirable, would emerge from street demonstrations taking place in societies where there is no legal political opposition.






Now we have an idea of what the Arab Spring will look like.






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4. Everything you need to know about #Weinergate






Congressman Anthony Weiner sent a picture of his . . . well . . . his eponymous male member of his body . . . to a college coed in Seattle. He was, at least, wearing underwear. The girl he sent the pic to had said online a while back they were dating, though the Congressman is married.






Only after Andrew Breitbart and friends pointed out that a married Democrat member of congress named Weiner had sent a picture of his . . . well . . . his weiner to a college coed in Seattle, the congressman claimed his account had been hacked. But then when asked why he deleted all the evidence in a hurry and has not reported the matter to either the FBI or Capitol Police, he decided it was a “prank” not a “hack” and he would get a lawyer instead.






He and the coed have been busily deleting everything they possibly could about themselves online ever since. The congressman’s wife works for Hillary Clinton.






Neil Stevens has a take down of the affair and a good overview of why it was not a hack. Moe Lane has more.






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5. Cut, Cap, and Balance






As you probably have heard by now, the United States has reached its statutory debt limit, and the Treasury Department each day performs “extraordinary measures” to prevent the federal government from having to make any real choices to reduce debt or prioritize spending.






As of right now, only one entity on Capitol Hill has put forward a serious, robust plan to truly reform the way Washington budgets and spends taxpayer dollars, so that we never again hit the debt ceiling. It’s the U.S. House Republican Study Committee (RSC)—and the plan is called “Cut, Cap, and Balance.”






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6. George Soros wants your Internet, and the Democrats are peddling online censorship, and Ryan Giggs is still an adulterer






Have you ever noticed that the Soros-funded left never refers to Sprint Nextel by the firm’s full name? They only talk about Sprint. You know why? If they say Sprint Nextel, it’ll remind everyone that when #3 Sprint and #4 Nextel merged, wireless competition, prices, and service all improved. If you remember that fact, they think you might make the “wrong” predictions about #2 AT&T and #4 T-Mobile merging, creating a better threat to Verizon, improving competition, service, and prices.






But the whole Sprint/George Soros Unholy Alliance is all about deception. Soros-funded groups like Public Knowledge know nothing else. So says Mike Wendy: “they do great damage to the integrity of the review process, which ultimately harms the American consumer.” And so says Seton Motley: “The “public interest” is best served by what the public is interested in. And the public – the consumers, the people – aren’t at all interested in what Free Press, Public Knowledge and Media Access Project have to offer.”






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7. Mitt Romney Still Loves His Ethanol, Especially in Iowa






Say anything you want about Mitt Romney, but at least he isn’t flip flopping this time around. Instead of disavowing his support for Romneycare, he fully embraced the monstrosity, albeit on a state level. Now, amidst the growing disquiet over the outrageous ethanol subsidies, and following Tim Pawlenty’s mea culpa on the issue, Mitt Romney is doubling down on his support for this odious subsidy.






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8. Chris Christie’s Time to Run






Let me put an editorial note here that this is not in any way, shape, or form an endorsement of Chris Christie. It is, rather, my assessment of his chances for the Presidency should he choose to pass on 2012.






The governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, claims he has no intention of running for president in 2012. I believe that 2012 is the only time Chris Christie will be a highly viable candidate. Should Chris Christie not run in this presidential cycle, I believe this will be the last we will hear of Chris Christie for President.






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Erick Erickson
Editor, RedState.com

Today in the Washington Examiner May 31, 2011

Byron York - Like Obama, GOP plans pivot to jobs, economy


Throughout 2009 and much of 2010, Republican strategists were amazed by what they saw on Capitol Hill. Democrats had just won a big election and knew the public was eager for them to work on economic recovery. So what did Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid do? They pushed their party's top priority, national health care, instead of the public's top priority. Read More






Susan Ferrechio - GOP doing damage control on budget cuts


A week after losing a Republican-leaning House seat, the GOP will schedule a vote on whether to raise the nation's debt ceiling that they hope will show that Democrats are just as unwilling to increase how much the government can borrow without significantly reducing how much it spends. Read More






Palin bus tour leaves Washington _ but for where?


Sarah Palin said Monday she is "still kind of contemplating" a presidential campaign as she and her family set off from the nation's capital on a bus tour of historical sites that left observers puzzled about what the former Alaska governor planned next — both for her schedule and her career. Read More






Philip Klein - Don't assume that Palin will run


News that Sarah Palin was launching a nationwide bus tour has renewed speculation that she's going to launch a presidential bid later this year, but I'm not convinced. Read More






Timothy P. Carney - Top Obama health aide cashes out after health 'reform'


An Obama appointee who played a central role in crafting the 2010 health care bill has cashed out to a well-connected lobbying firm, where her first clients are two of the bill's beneficiaries: abortion provider Planned Parenthood and a hospital chain. Read More






Brian Hughes - Obama hopes to change views on auto industry bailout


President Obama is hoping to change voters' views of his controversial bailout of the auto industry and turn his own political liability against Republicans amid signs that U.S. automakers are rebounding. At the height of the bailout rage -- when the government pumped billions of dollars into General Motors and Chrysler despite a Republican outcry -- it would have been difficult for liberals to craft a winning political message defending big-government spending. Read More






David Freddoso - Congressmen don't have to read bills, so what makes you think the president has to sign them?


Politico takes on the Obama administration's insistence that the president need not actually sign bills in order to make them law: Read More

The Washington Post Morning Fix: The unorthodoxy of Sarah Palin

The unorthodoxy of Sarah Palin

By Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake


Unorthodox, thy name is Sarah Palin.






The former Alaska governor, who is known for her unconvential approach to politics, outdid even herself with a bus tour over Memorial Day weekend.






The trip, which was announced via her political action committee website Thursday, resembled nothing so much as an episode of “Amazing Race” — a helter-skelter series of stops at historical sites with little (if any) advance notice given of her plans.






The lack of details left reporters confused and scrambling, and the political world wondering just what she was up to. Which is, of course, exactly how Palin likes it.






Asked about a potential 2012 campaign on Sunday night, Palin said “it would definitely be non-conventional and untraditional,” a comment that amounts to the political understatement of the year.






Palin added in an interview with Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren (one of her go-to members of the mainstream media): “I don’t think I owe anything to the mainstream media ... I want them to have to do a little bit of work on a tour like this, and that would include not necessarily telling them beforehand where every stop’s going to be.”






The bus trip proved what most political observers already knew about Palin.






Firt, she has the ability to draw crowds — and excitement — like no one else currently in the Republican presidential field. Wherever Palin goes, crowds flock. The ability to generate organic excitement is a quality not to be underestimated in the context of a political canpaign.






Second, Palin revels in end-running — or ignoring altogether — the mainstream media. Any other potential presidential candidate planning a week-long bus trip would not only release the specifics of where and when he or she was stopping but would also ensure access to the candidate for reporters following along.






Not Palin. She communicated her whereabouts almost exclusively via her PAC website, forcing reporters to rely primarily on rumor to determine what her next stop might be. When reporters tracked her down, she talked to them. But tracking her down was’t easy.






What the first days of her bus trip proved then was that if Palin does run, she will do it in a manner consistent with the way she has approached political life since she and Arizona Sen. John McCain lost the 2008 presidential race.






Instead of communicating via the media, Palin will use her massive Internet and social media presence to push her message out. Rather than a regimented schedule of travel to early states like Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, Palin seems likely to opt for a more fluid schedule that allows for surprise drop-ins on average Americans.






No presidential campaign in the modern era has been run in such a manner and succeeded. Former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson sought to minimize his travel to early states and focus on communicating with voters through cable televison and web videos. He didn’t win a single primary or caucus.






But Palin’s star shines brighter than Thompson’s. And her conviction about the country and the way in which campaigns can work runs deep.






But star power and conviction alone have never been enough to win over voters in Iowa and New Hampshire. What]s clear from her bus tour, though, is that if Palin runs for president, she’ll do it one and one way only: hers.






Foreign policy boosts Obama: President Obama’s approval rating keeps rising, and it’s largely thanks to his strength on foreign policy.






A new CNN/Opinion Research poll shows Obama’s approval rising to 54 percent, continuing a steady climb since the killing of Osama bin Laden.






When you look at specific issues, though, Obama continues to be bouyed by foreign policy, with less support for his economic policies. In fact, of the three areas where Obama’s approval is above 50 percent — terrorism, Afghanistan and Iraq — all are foreign policy-related.






Weiner lawyers up: Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) is seeking the advice of counsel after claiming this weekend that his Twitter account was hacked.






Weiner’s account sent a tweet Friday that linked to a lewd picture to a young woman in Seattle. Weiner says it was the work of hackers, and the young woman in Seattle says she has never met Weiner and has beat back suggestions from those on the right that she and Weiner might have had an inappropriate relationship.






On Monday, Weiner’s spokesman told the New York Daily News that he has retained a lawyer to see if civil or criminal actions could be pursued against the alleged hacker.






GOP kicks off debt limit debate: The debt limit debate is set to begin in earnest, as House Republicans are set to vote today on the president’s request to raise the debt limit beyond the current $14.3 trillion.






Republicans are taking the symbolic vote — the measure is almost certain to fail — to show how little support there will be for raising the debt limit without coinciding cuts to the budget, even among Democrats.






All members of the House GOP caucus will meet with Obama on Wednesday for a discussion on the debt limit.






Fixbits:

• Outspoken freshman Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) says Obama was elected because he is black.

• Former Rep. Dan Maffei (D-N.Y.) will make a decision “soon” on whether to seek a rematch with Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle (R).

• The Illinois state House on Monday passed an aggressive new congressional redistricting plan spearheaded by Democrats. The state Senate is up next.

• Some conservatives are trying to draft Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) into the presidential race.

Must-reads:

• “How the GOP could rescue Medicare reform” — Michael Gerson, The Washington Post

• “Just who is Herman Cain? And what does his presidential run mean for the GOP?” — Jason Horowitz, The Washington Post

• “Romney and health care: In the thick of history” — Brian C. Mooney, Boston Globe

• “GOP presidential contenders drift to the right” — AP

• “The upside of GOP despair” — Andrew Romano, Newsweek

• “Who said that? Dems and GOP display dizzying shift on Medicare rhetoric” — Julian Pecquet and Jamie Klatell, The Hill

Wes Gullett: Why I'm Running for Mayor

Phoenix was once the land of opportunity. We need to keep a laser focus on creating jobs and growing the economy for future generations.



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Governor Brewer's Public Schedule for the Week Beginning Monday, May 30, 2011

Public Schedule For Governor Jan Brewer

Week of May 30 - June 5, 2011


Friday, June 3, 2011 - Saturday, June 4, 2011


• Governor to Attend Arizona-Mexico Commission 2011 Summer Plenary Session


Wigwam Resort
300 East Wigwam Boulevard, Litchfield Park




Saturday, June 4, 2011


8:30 a.m. - Governor Brewer to deliver remarks during closing Plenary Session


Wigwam Ballroom






10:30 a.m. - Governor Brewer to participate in closing press conference


Mohave West Ballroom




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MEMORIAL DAY 2011

Here are some of the events for Memorial Day in Phoenix:

Avondale Sunset Memorial Day Service

The City of Avondale, American Legion Crandall Palmer Post 61, VFW Pat Tillman Memorial Post 40, Scottish American Military Society, and the Blue Star Moms of the Southwest Valley present a program featuring posting of the Colors, TAPS, a solemn POW/MIA table ceremony, and a candle lighting remembrance. Guest speakers. A wreath honors the memory of fallen members of the Armed Forces on flag-lined path featuring bricks engraved with names of veterans and flags representing each of the six branches of the Military. Bring lawn chairs or blankets. Avondale Civic Center 11465 W. Civic Center Drive, at the outdoor amphitheater. Call 623-333-2400 for more information. Free.


In 2011: Monday, May 30 from 7 to 8 p.m.






Memorial Day Celebration




The Arizona Academy of the Performing Arts hosts the Memorial Day Celebration at the Pera Club, 1 E. Continental Dr., Tempe. This annual event recognizes the memory of our war heroes through a spectrum of family events including food, games, entertainment, and raffles. The Academy Drum and Bugle Corps will debut their 2011 music.


In 2011: Monday, May 30 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.


Memorial Day Bike Rally




Riders USA pays tribute to our fallen at Phoenix National Cemetery, 23029 N. Cave Creek Road, Phoenix. Flag Display & Salute to arrivals at 6:30 a.m. Ride into the Cemetery at 7:45 a.m. Official Ceremony at 8 a.m. inside cemetery. The flag display and salute along with the official Ceremony are free. For $10 donation you can sponsor a flag. Register online. In 2011: Monday, May 30 from 6:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.




Arizona State University’s Symphonic Carillon




The Symphonic Carillon is a lasting tribute to those in the ASU community who gave their lives for their country. Join us as we read their names. Our carillonneurs will play patriotic music. ASU, in front of the Memorial Union, Tempe campus.


In 2011: Tuesday, May 31 from noon to 1 p.m.




Memorial Day Celebration




The highlight of this annual festival is a performance by the Drum & Bugle Corps of the Arizona Academy of the Performing Arts. The award-winning group, which has more than 100 musicians 21 or younger, will play iconic American songs. Additional activities include food, games and raffles.




Details: 4-8 p.m. Monday, May 30. Pera Club, 1 E. Continental Drive, Tempe. $8, $5 through May 29. 480-838-4203, arizonaacademy.org.






Memorial Day Observance




The Pioneers Cemetery Association presents the 28th annual observance by decorating the historical cemetery with flags and flowers. Civil War organizations and state historians are among the groups that will participate. Visitors can take a guided tour of the 1897 Smurthwaite House.




Details: 9 a.m. Monday, May 30. Pioneer and Military Memorial Park, 1317 W. Jefferson St., Phoenix. Free. FREE. 602-534-1262, azhistcemeteries.org.


McCain on Memorial Day: Love Our Freedom for ‘the Goodness It Makes Possible’




By Bridget Johnson

May 25, 2011, 5:13 pm




Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) said at AEI today that Memorial Day reminds us to cherish our freedom and its responsibilities, “Whether it calls us to arms or altruism or politics.”

Giving a brief address at the “Why Memorial Day?” discussion before heading to the Senate for 5 p.m. budget votes, McCain did not mention his six years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Yet he noted that in his youth he viewed the holiday as “the unofficial first day of summer,” a time for picnics and days at the beach, as many do.

“The older I become the more meaning Memorial Day holds,” McCain said, “whether you have served in uniform or not.”

The senator said that even though all would not have the “privilege and burden” of serving, the “grim tests of courage and character have made a legend of combat veterans’ devotion to duty” in every part of America.

“We have to love our freedom not just for the private opportunities it provides but the goodness it makes possible,” McCain said, adding “we must love it enough to argue about it.”


And as the world still holds many dangers, many will be called to sacrifice again. “Man’s inhumanity to man is an evil that will never be entirely extinct,” he said. “Americans will be asked again to bear burdens that only the brave can endure.”

On Memorial Day, the senator stressed, we must remember “those Americans for whom duty, honor and love of country were more dear to them than life itself.”

“We must not forget what they did,” McCain said. “Their honor is eternal.”