BRUCE ASH LOSES AGAIN

His plan to overturn Tucson's election system in order to get more Repubicans on the city council has been denied by the 9th Circuit:

Tucson can continue to use the same two-tiered election system it has been using since the 1920s, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.

Friday’s ruling by an 11-judge panel erases a three-judge panel’s earlier decision. The court said Friday in its 19-page ruling that Tucson’s voting method doesn’t violate the U.S. Constitution’s commitment to one vote per person as alleged by the Public Integrity Alliance and a group of Republican voters.

The two-tiered system uses a ward-only primary election and a citywide general election. The city is divided into six wards.

“Tucson’s hybrid system for electing members of its city council imposes no constitutionally significant burden on voters’ rights to vote. And Tucson has advanced a valid, sufficiently important interest to justify its choice of electoral system,” the ruling states.

DAVID BOSSIE IS SO DISHONEST THAT EVEN GINGRICH HAD TO GET RID OF HIM

This is the guy Trump just hired to be a senior member of his campaign staff:

May 3-9; A Top Aide Resigns
By ERIC SCHMITT
Published: May 10, 1998
The chairman of the House inquiry into President Clinton's 1996 campaign finance practices ousted his top investigator amid a furor over the aide's role in releasing edited tapes of Webster L. Hubbell's jailhouse conversations. Under pressure from Speaker Newt Gingrich, Representative Dan Burton, an Indiana Republican who heads the House Government and Reform Committee, accepted the resignation of the aide, David N. Bossie, a dogged anti-Clinton sleuth. ERIC SCHMITT

MORE GOOD LIBERAL NEWS IN ARIZONA

A minimum wage increase will appear on the ballot this November despite efforts by the Arizona Restaurant Association (ARA) to challenge it in court.  In AZ law, petitioners can be called to court to verify their credentials and if they don't show up, their signatures are invalidated.   The ARA lost in a lower court on a technicality and that ruling was upheld by the State Supreme Court.

Arizona Supreme Court upholds order: Minimum wage hike on the ballot

Bob Christie, Associated Press 4:14 p.m. MST August 30, 2016

PHOENIX - The Arizona Supreme Court has upheld a trial judge’s order rejecting a challenge to a voter initiative raising the state minimum to $12 an hour by 2020.

Tuesday’s ruling from the high court means voters will see the minimum wage measure on the November general election ballot.

Opponents of Proposition 206 had argued that Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Joshua Rogers was wrong when he dismissed their challenge because it was filed too late. Rogers ruled that initiative challenges must be filed within five days of qualifying signatures being filed, including weekends. The Arizona Restaurant Association sued seven days after the filing.

The Supreme Court’s two-page decision said the law is clear and the Legislature could have expressly excluded weekend days but did not.

McSALLY ALSO WON'T ENDORSE TRUMP

In this, she joins McCain and Jeff Flake:

Whatever the case, U.S. Rep. Martha McSally, the Tucson Republican, was never going to attend. She told my colleague Joe Ferguson and me Wednesday morning, “My schedule is booked.”McSally has never endorsed Trump and is not going to, it seems. She said she’ll keep her vote secret. Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake, both Republicans, also stayed away from the rally.

I CAN ALMOST HEAR IT RIGHT NOW...

By "it" I mean Trump and the Trumplings complaining that the commies stole the election.

THE NEXT TIME SOMEONE SAYS BOTH CANDIDATES ARE BAD,

show them this (h/t Mediaite):

TRUMP TV?

Glenn Beck has his own network and The Donald could too.  Here's the basic economics:

Robert Thompson, a professor and director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University...You need fewer people to make a hit night on cable television that you do to be elected president. If he could regularly have a media operation that would have 3 million people watching that would be successful," he said of Trump. That's not an outlandish number to imagine — after all, some 14 million people voted for Trump in the GOP primaries.