On July 4, 2017, America celebrated its dual independences: from England and from sanity. We earned independence from England 241 years ago through bravery, battle and sacrifice. The other independence – we’re still figuring out how we “earned” that one. But, earn it we did and our achievement was made official on the First of July when Donald J. Trump, the daffy blonde helicopter we made President, proclaimed himself modern day presidential. The President was responding to bipartisan criticism of a string of verbal wedgies he unleashed on two MSNBC cable hosts and CNN. While Hurricane Tweety blows crazier and crazier – witness the doctored video of him “beating up” CNN — the Beavis and Butthead-ization of the Executive Branch continues. Exhibit 1 is poor Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert, who drew the short straw and had to defend the “beating up CNN” video, stating, “I think that no one would perceive that as a threat. I hope they don’t.” (“I hope I wake up from this nightmare before I die in my sleep!” added his inner voice, sadly.)
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I’ve Got A Secret
The liberties of people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
– Patrick Henry
Ally Miller, a local County Supervisor with a penchant for sluicing her official email through a personal email account, has a powerful new friend in high places. Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has declared, in a Legal Opinion, that messages sent or received through a private email account, messenger service, or social network are not public records. Brnovich did not mention his ongoing investigation into Miller’s emails. Nonetheless, if the investigation reflects his Legal Opinion, then Miller is largely off the hook – along with every public employee in Arizona who wants to hide his or her official communications. Brnovich has given every unscrupulous public official a blank check to draw on the Bank of Chicanery and knee-capped Arizona’s Public Records Law.
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