It's always nice to see your name in a headline that doesn't also include the phrase, "police say," but we're taking the most recent Sonoran Alliance blog post by "Cincinnatus" with a grain of salt.

Cinnypoo has been writing a lot of negative things lately about Tom Horne, the state schools chief. Horne's running for Attorney General, the same lofty post being sought by Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas.

Sure, if a fellow blogger claims he or she doesn't work for Thomas or in any other county government position, we want to take the bloke's word for it. We have no evidence to say otherwise, and we imagine it might even be true. Still, Cin'll have to forgive us if we hold out the possibility he/she is lying. It's kind of hard to believe someone who's wearing a mask.
Besides, political theater is complicated: The writer might not work for the county, but still have another personal incentive, or indirect benefit in tearing Horne a new one.

One of our fleet-fingered readers managed to cut and paste the text of a right-wing blog post and its comments about Brett Mecum (above), executive director of the Arizona Republican Party, just before the blog site deleted the content.

Like many blog sites, including our own Valley Fever, the popular, conservative blog Sonoran Alliance had published an article on June 3 about the dismissal of Mecum's speed-camera case. Mecum, if you'll recall, was photographed by a speed camera on April 10 while traveling at an alleged 109 miles per hour in his bitchin' Ford Shelby GT Mustang. The article soon picked up a healthy 25 comments, including many that were harshly critical of Mecum.

The SA article, written by the androgynous, anonymous "Pat," explains how Judge John Keegan, an active opponent of photo enforcement, dismissed Mecum's case. Then Pat adds his two cents' worth: