Since I received more that 100 emails about the last poll. I thought I would consolidate all the answers onto one post. Please match your question to one of the answer(s) below the fold:

A credible death threat against community activist Randy “Open Borders” Parraz is under investigation. Parraz led the successful recall effort against Senator Russell Pearce.

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A Tea Party chapter in Virginia is alleging that it was audited by the City of Richmond after it complained that the local Occupy movement was receiving special treatment by the mayor.

The Richmond Tea Party said the city charged it $10,000 to hold three rallies in Kanawha Plaza — where Occupiers have been allowed to reside at no charge.

Now the Tea Partiers are crying foul and demanding their money back. But shortly after complaining to the city, the Tea Party group said it received notice of the tax audit.  

“As the Occupy mob sprang up, the City of Richmond allowed them the use of the park at no charge. Mayor Dwight Jones of Richmond is a liberal Democrat, who even visited the Occupy Mob, encouraging them,” the group said in a statement released Monday. “In one of the most outrageous political double standards, the city of Richmond, Va., is now demanding an audit of the Richmond Tea Party.”

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A m e r i c a n  P o s t – G a z e t t e

Distributed by C O M M O N  S E N S E , in Arizona

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Arizona Republic editorializes against corrupt Supervisors Stapley and Wilcox  

Supervisors put on so much fake weeping during Bar prosecution of Andrew Thomas wanting their million dollar lawsuits against county taxpayers that even liberal Republic wasn’t fooled

Reprinted from SeeingRedAZ.com
 
“Must even sober, somber hearings convened by the Arizona Supreme Court dissolve into weepy productions from the Oprah Winfrey Network?….Stapley and Wilcox are using these proceedings to maximize their cases for winning damages from the county. Their testimony is a distraction from the specific accusation that Thomas abused his license to practice law.”

High drama in the high court

September 22, 2011

It’s a rare day when we agree – even in part – with an editorial in the Morning Endeavor.

Story …

Senior Democrats, ranging from Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine to Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen (Md.), aggressively attacked the Tea Party in the lead-up to the midterms, hoping that doing so would soften losses to the GOP. House Minority Leader John Boehner (Ohio) and other Republicans embraced the movement, believing its energy would benefit their party at the polls.

In the end, the Tea Party was in many ways a net asset for the GOP as Republicans grabbed control of the House and cut into the Democratic majority in the Senate.

However, there was collateral damage as Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) and other Senate GOP hopefuls seen as the party’s best chance of winning general-election races were ousted in primaries. Some blamed Tea Party candidates for costing Republicans a Senate majority to go with their new majority in the House.

A month-by-month breakdown of 2010′s most memorable political events follows.

January

Sens. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) announce they will not seek reelection.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) apologizes for racially insensitive remarks.

Scott Brown (R) wins Sen. Edward Kennedy’s (D-Mass.) old seat; healthcare reform on the ropes.

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Republicans will eliminate the House committee created by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to highlight the threat of climate change, Representative James Sensenbrenner, the top Republican on the panel, said today.

In one of her first acts as speaker in 2007, Pelosi, a California Democrat, created the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming to draw attention to climate-change science and showcase how a cap on carbon dioxide needn’t be a threat to economic growth.

Republicans, who won control of the House in the Nov. 2 election, have opposed legislative efforts to regulate carbon emissions as a tax on energy. When the panel convened today, Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican, said that the hearing “will be the last of the select committee.”

Sensenbrenner had advocated extending the panel as a forum to scrutinize Obama administration actions. In an opinion column on Nov. 8 in the Washington newspaper Roll Call, he wrote that the committee was “more qualified than any other” to challenge Obama environmental initiatives that he said may threaten the economy. He acknowledged that other Republicans thought the panel should be eliminated to save money.

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Members of a key Obama panel created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – better known as the stimulus bill – have scheduled a “partially closed-door” meeting on November 22, to consider ways to prevent “fraud, waste, and abuse of Recovery Act funds.”

According to the notice, the general public will have an opportunity to attend the open portion of the meeting, artfully tucked in to the closed portion..

The group is a sub-committee of the larger Recovery Accountability and Transparency board, fittingly referred to as the RAT board. The stimulus bill set up the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel, or RIAP, to make recommendations to identify and prevent waste of the bill’s $814 billion in stimulus spending.

You read that right. $814 BILLION.

The Federal Register, the daily journal of the U.S. government, reports the meeting will be held at the luxurious Ritz-Carlton Hotel right here in the Valley of the Sun, where the average high November temperature is a balmy 75, compared to that gray and drizzly chill in the 20 to the 40 degree daily range in Washington, D.C.

Who says Obama & Co. are lacking a sense of humor?

Hat Tip: Seeing Red AZ

Pelosi Suggests Probe of Funding Sources Behind Opposition to Mosque Near Ground Zero

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is suggesting a coordinated effort is behind the opposition to a proposed mosque and community center near Ground Zero, saying the whole dispute has been “ginned up” for political purposes and she supports a probe into those opponents.

Commenting publicly for the first time on the Park 51 project, Pelosi said the issue was posing a distraction and that some organized force is behind it.

“There is no question that there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some,” she said in remarks posted Tuesday in a video on the San Francisco Chronicle website. “And I join those who have called for looking into how is this opposition to the mosque (is) being funded.”

On Wednesday, Pelosi’s office clarified that the speaker is not calling for a “congressional inquiry,” though she still supports looking into the funding of the mosque’s opponents as well as its patrons.

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