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Things that appear certain, based on polling: Mitt Romney is on his way to a relatively easy win in tomorrow's caucuses in Nevada. Romney is also in pretty decent shape in the two late February primaries in Arizona and Michigan, two states that (on paper) set up pretty well for him. Gingrich's national standing, at least in the Gallup tracking polls, has taken a mighty dive. What...
DailyKos (Arizona) - 5:47 p.m. - 8 clicks 
by David Safier AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) created a website, RAZING (workers' rights in) ARIZONA. On the site, you can sign the open letter below. To the lawmakers, governors, policy-wonks, and corporate backers who are......
Blog For Arizona - 5:25 p.m. - 7 clicks
by David Safier OK, Indian Wells is more like Palm Springs than Tucson, but I drove there a few years ago to attend the tennis tourney, so it's not that far away. Here's a semi-first hand report about the four......
Blog For Arizona - 5:25 p.m. - 7 clicks
Yeah, I’ve been bad about posting. I’ll give refunds to those that ask. I can’t let the birthday of one of this blog’s favorite old time Arizona politicians pass. Buckey O’Neill was born on February 2 in 1860. He might have been born in Missouri, Washington, DC or Ireland. The facts of his birth varied [...]...
Rum, Romanism and Rebellion - 3:23 p.m. - 11 clicks
The problems facing Arizona are simple - the state is the victim of hordes of Mexicans who come in and steal jobs from real citizens. The way to solve the problem is to tighten our efforts to identify and deport the unwanted visitors. That is the Republican version. The problem is that this is utter nonsense. ...
DailyKos (Arizona) - 1:44 p.m. - 3 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: You are cordially invited to the AZ LD 30 "Boot Stompin' Red Hot Chili Lovers Cook-off!" Saturday, February 25th 12:00 - 2:00 PM Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson 4831 E. 22nd St. Tucson, AZ 85711 Master of......
Blog For Arizona - 9:29 a.m. - 8 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: John Nichols of The Nation was a guest on MSNBC's The Ed Show Thursday night to discuss his report on the connection between the Goldwater Institute, ALEC, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, Arizona Tea-Publicans......
Blog For Arizona - 9:09 a.m. - 9 clicks
by David Safier I usually don't post entire Arizona Democratic Party emails, but I'm making an exception in this case. This past Wednesday, the Tea Party Republicans in the state Senate fast-tracked an all out assault on the middle class......
Blog For Arizona - 9:09 a.m. - 8 clicks
Arizona unions will need solidarity in their fight. ( AFL-CIO ) Arizona unions face an organizing challenge as the state Senate moves a comprehensive attack on public unions . What do you do, faced with a 21 to 9 Republican majority intent on stripping workers of collective bargaining rights just for starters, and acting quickly to do so? Given the speed with which Republicans have in...
DailyKos (Arizona) - 7:47 a.m. - 8 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Please join the Pima Area Labor Federation (PALF), AFSCME, CWA Local 7000 and community supporters to stand up to the attacks on union members and their families. WHAT: Rally Against Anti-Worker Bills WHEN: Friday, February 3, 4:00......
Blog For Arizona - 7:47 a.m. - 7 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Senate Committee on Government Reform approved four anti-worker bills on Wednesday on a party-line vote, bills that were introduced only on Monday by its chair, Sen. Rick Murphy, R-Glendale, and fast-tracked for swift passage in the......
Blog For Arizona - 7:29 a.m. - 10 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: President Obama has a "My Turn" guest opinion in the Arizona Republic today, Obama: Housing plan will boost economy: In my State of the Union Address, I laid out a blueprint for an economy that's built to......
Blog For Arizona - 7:08 a.m. - 8 clicks
Posted by Michael Bryan I actually don't know how much of this fact and how much is political puffery, but it's a well-done attack ad - and there is never anything I don't like about an attack ad on a......
Blog For Arizona - 7:08 a.m. - 10 clicks
Posted by Michael Bryan Richard Carmona, former Surgeon General in the Bush II Admin, announced two major endorsements from Pima County officials today: Sheriff Clarence Dupnik and County Attorney Barbara LaWall. These endorsements are a forceful moves to establish Carmona's......
Blog For Arizona - Thu 7:23 p.m. - 12 clicks
From the Arizona Capitol Times , written by Jeremy Duda - Recalled former Sen. Russell Pearce is eyeing a return to the Capitol. Pearce, who was ousted in a historic recall election in November, filed paperwork with the Secretary of State’s Office on Jan. 30 to run for the Senate in the new District 25. In the article, Pearce is indirectly quoted ( from this article from Howard Fisc...
Random Musings - Thu 6:48 p.m. - 13 clicks
Oh, goodie. Arizona's former Senate President, Russell Pearce, whose racist ass was overwhelmingly recalled last November in his very conservative Mesa district, has filed paperwork to run for the State Senate in District 25, a new district. Former Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce filed papers Monday to run for the Senate in the new District 25. The Mesa resident was the first legislator ...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Thu 6:02 p.m. - 12 clicks
by David Safier Here are a few passages from Grijalva's Media Release speaking out against Arizona's proposed anti-worker legislation. “Blaming unions and working families for a lack of jobs is the same insulting distraction it’s always been,” Grijalva said. “These......
Blog For Arizona - Thu 2:46 p.m. - 13 clicks
by David Safier Craig Barrett, who is the front man for Jan Brewer's education agenda, loves to use BASIS Charter as an example of all that's wonderful about charter schools and "school choice." He's the president and chairman, so he......
Blog For Arizona - Thu 2:09 p.m. - 15 clicks
Last fall Arizona Governor and finger-wagging expert Jan Brewer launched Jan PAC , her political action committee that is focused on, she writes: • Securing the border & restoring integrity to our immigration system • Fighting ObamaCare • Creating jobs – Getting Americans back to work • Reducing the size of government As the website says, if you donate $100 or more, you'll also recei...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Thu 10:47 a.m. - 14 clicks
Rep. Daniel Patterson introduces HB2747 to decrease high-school dropout rate STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX -- Rep. Daniel Patterson , D-Tucson (LD29/LD3), introduced a bill Wednesday that would require students to stay in school until their 18th birthday or graduation. “Right now, 24 percent of our students are not leaving high school with a diploma in hand,” Patterson said, citing stat...
Daniel's News & Views - Thu 10:24 a.m. - 11 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Senate Minority Leader David Shapira was a guest on The Ed Show on Wednesday night, discussing Governor Jan Brewer and her Tea-Publican legislature's full-scale assault on public employee unions and workers rights in the Arizona legislature this......
Blog For Arizona - Thu 6:47 a.m. - 12 clicks
...First, the "other stuff" - On a sad note, Michael D. Ryan, the highly-regarded former Arizona Supreme Court Justice, passed away on Monday. His funeral services will be held Friday at St. Francis Xavier Church on Central Avenue in Phoenix at 3 p.m. Services will be preceded by visitation at 2 p.m. As a veteran (a hero, actually), his body will probably be interred at ...
Random Musings - Wed 8:40 p.m. - 14 clicks
Last night I posted a diary about the anti-union goings-on in Arizona, where ALEC puppet Governor Jan Brewer and her merry band of Republican goons have introduced legislation that will prohibit public sector unions from sitting at the table -- any table: schools, police, social workers, you get the picture. What makes Brewer's proposal "Wisconsin on steroids," as critics have described it...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Wed 6:46 p.m. - 17 clicks
Okay, people, did I not tell you the other day that being vigilant about reproductive justice is important? Personhood has reared its head in Arizona. 2010 was the year Arizona voters lost their damn minds and sent a bunch of reactionary whackaloons to the Arizona Legislature, essentially to show that Kenyan Usurper in the White [...]...
Democratic Diva - Wed 4:20 p.m. - 22 clicks
The gutless Susan G. Komen Foundation announced the termination of its support for Planned Parenthood, allegedly due to the Komen Foundation's policy of not supporting organizations that are "under investigation," even bullshit ones that are nakedly political. Well, here's something Arizonans can do that is easy, effective, powerful, and as close to perfect as you're likely to find. ...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Wed 1:06 p.m. - 14 clicks
Posted by AzblueMeanie: Anti-abortion jihadist Sen. Steve Smith (R-Maricopa) is also an anti-immigrant extremist who wants to fill the shoes of disgraced recalled Sen. Russell Pearce. Smith is bringing back anti-immigrant measures that the business community helped to kill in......
Blog For Arizona - Wed 8:44 a.m. - 13 clicks
Apart from the stories detailed by fellow Valley of the Sun-based Kossack Mother Mags about the Arizona GOP's 1) Efforts to annihilate worker representation from the state's public sector 2) AND curtail public input wherever possible (except in the case of lobbyists the actually write the laws) and cement a full scale merging of government and business (i.e. corporatocracy and crony capi...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Wed 8:08 a.m. - 17 clicks
Arizona Republicans: "Top that, Scott Walker!" Over the past two years, Arizona's state government, led by Gov. Jan Brewer, has been characterized by not just run-of-the-mill Republican awfulness, but stuff that's kind of creative in its stupidity. Like selling the state capitol only to buy it back two years later at a $24 million loss. Impeaching the chair of the redistricting commis...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Wed 8:08 a.m. - 12 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Time once again for the Farley report from Rep. Steve Farley (D-Tucson): There are many caucuses in the Arizona Legislature besides the Republican and Democratic caucuses, including the Children's Caucus, Native American Caucus, Tourism Caucus, Animal Caucus,......
Blog For Arizona - Wed 5:23 a.m. - 10 clicks
There has been an intense Maricopa County Board of Supervisors meeting going on today, with detractors of the dear Sheriff walking out in disgust. Seems some people in AZ are singing a different tune about Sheriff Joe, lately. He is not the popular fellow he likes to see himself as, anymore. Last night an historic unanimous resolution City of Phoenix Human Relations Commissi...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Tue 6:49 p.m. - 14 clicks
by David Safier We already knew Arizona Republicans hate teachers and the unions representing them. We also knew they hate the unionized government workers who keep the wheels of state turning and provide services to Arizonans. Now we know they......
Blog For Arizona - Tue 6:49 p.m. - 14 clicks
We don't cotton to other states elbowing in on Arizona's limelight of the crazy, so when Wisconsin and others voted to curb the influence of collective bargaining (and Ohio repealed the same), the dunderheads at the Arizona legislature decided to wipe out public employee unions altogether, writes Channel 12 reporter Brahm Resnik. Wisconsin's collective bargaining law enacted last year made uni...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Tue 6:08 p.m. - 26 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Heads up people! This is the bid by Jan Brewer to be the Scott Walker of the West that I have been warning you about for months. Jan Brewer seeks to go well beyond the assault on......
Blog For Arizona - Tue 3:40 p.m. - 14 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: David Crowe, the Republican-turned-Democrat who was running for the U.S. Senate, has now decided to primary Congressman Raúl Grijalva for the new CD 3 congressional seat. I have had a chance to speak with Mr. Crowe a......
Blog For Arizona - Tue 3:24 p.m. - 12 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Doctor Matt Heinz, Democratic Representative for LD 29, is the first Democrat to announce for the Giffords seat. Petitions must be filed 28 days from today. Arizona Rep. Heinz to run for Giffords' seat: State representative Matt......
Blog For Arizona - Tue 2:07 p.m. - 11 clicks
My good bud Diane D’Angelo chairs the City of Phoenix Human Rights Commission. Unlike many boards and commissions, HRC actually does stuff. Last night they voted unanimously to demand Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s resignation for numerous and egregious civil and human rights violations. Needless to say this has caused consternation among Arpaio’s nativist fan [...]...
Democratic Diva - Tue 1:27 p.m. - 16 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Former Rep. Nancy Young Wright (D-LD 26) is running for Pima County Board of Supervisors (District 1) this year. Below is an Announcement (.pdf) for a campaign event from her campaign....
Blog For Arizona - Tue 1:26 p.m. - 12 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Oh, geezuz... I have previously explained how 20 years of GOP tax cuts have created a structural revenue deficit hole in Arizona that cannot be filled by "magical" belief in faith based supply-side "trickle down" GOP economics.......
Blog For Arizona - Tue 6:42 a.m. - 15 clicks
What follows is a letter I received from Scott Nicholson, a community organizer who has been working on the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona. It is posted here in full with his permission. ...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Mon 8:25 p.m. - 12 clicks
By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings ...Confirming rumors of long standing, Andrei Cherny has resigned as chair of the Arizona Democratic Party to run for Congress in the new CD9. He joins State Senator David Schapira and Kyrsten Sinema......
Blog For Arizona - Mon 8:04 p.m. - 13 clicks
...Confirming rumors of long standing, Andrei Cherny has resigned as chair of the Arizona Democratic Party to run for Congress in the new CD9. He joins State Senator David Schapira and Kyrsten Sinema in the field pursuing the Democratic nomination. No paperwork is up on the FECs website, but his campaign website is already up ( bare bones, but it's there ). His entry muddies up...
Random Musings - Mon 7:29 p.m. - 16 clicks
by David Safier It's a long and impressive list -- the organizations signing on to a Joint Statement in Opposition to Book Censorship in the Tucson Unified School District. When groups of this caliber band together to oppose an action......
Blog For Arizona - Mon 2:08 p.m. - 19 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: As Dana Carvey's SNL character the Church Lady would say: "Isn't that special!" Arizona Democratic Party Chair Andrei Cherny, for whom the party had to bend its bylaws last year in order to make him chair of......
Blog For Arizona - Mon 12:25 p.m. - 16 clicks
Most of the noise here last week was about the Governor's wagging finger, allowing a couple other screwball stories to more or less skate under the media smokescreen. When it comes to inventing tools to silence the public, the GOP is on a roll, from advancing repressive voter ID laws to wielding Citizens United 's big club. Last year set the tone here in Arizona when then-Senate President R...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Mon 11:29 a.m. - 11 clicks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: While I am on the subject of the Goldwater Institute's ready and willing stooge, Rep. Justin Olson (R-Mesa), this piece of work is up to something even more nefarious. Olson is proposing that the House adopt a......
Blog For Arizona - Mon 8:22 a.m. - 11 clicks
Arizona House Speaker Tobin @font-face { font-family: "Arial"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX -- Here is a staff summary of Arizona House Speaker Andy Tobin 's (R) controversial redistricting bills. This is certain to be a bi...
Daniel's News & Views - Mon 6:08 a.m. - 15 clicks
Due to the lateness of the hour, this post will cover only Monday's schedule at the Arizona Capitol. A post on the rest of the weeks schedule will go up Monday night. I'm not going into a lot of depth here tonight, so if an agenda or committee covers an area that you are interested in, click on the agenda and check out the rest of the bills... All agendas and their specifics, inc...
Random Musings - Sun 9:21 p.m. - 15 clicks
In the celebrated annals of Arizona wingnuttery, State Senator Sylvia Allen doesn't often share the national limelight with the likes of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Governor Jan Brewer, but she does occupy a permanent seat among the looniest fundies at the legislature. It was Allen, you may recall, who declared, during a natural resources committee hearing no less, that the earth has lasted for 6,0...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Sat 1:46 p.m. - 15 clicks
...and the fun part is: he wants the voters to pay $8 million for the privilege of subverting their own will... Rep. Andy Tobin (R-Paulden), the Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, has introduced HB2710 , HCR2051 , HCR2052 , HCR2053 , and HR2005 . If passed, they would mandate a special election in May where the voters would be "asked" to amend the inde...
Random Musings - Sat 11:45 a.m. - 16 clicks
Mitt Romney is resurgent! (Unless he's not.) Even if he's not, though, the schedule favors Mitt Romney. After all, he is coming up on a series of contests in places like Arizona and Michigan, where he should have a real advantage. (Unless he doesn't.) There are two very contradictory themes developing as we head into the weekend before the Florida primaries. On one hand, it is becomi...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Jan 27 - 19 clicks
1944 - Mrs. Drinkwine hatches the future governor of Arizona. Repeated requests for a return or exchange were denied. 1966 - After failing to finish community college, Brewer achieves a lab tech certificate in radiology. COINCIDENCE? I think NOT! "I have, uh, done so much and I just cannot believe that we have changed everything since I have become your governor in the last 600 days." ...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Jan 27 - 18 clicks
Bank of America is continuing to be remarkably thin-skinned. Of course, when experiences like Kaili Joy Gray's go public , they look really bad. Just as bad, in fact, as they actually are. Now, thanks to investigators in Arizona, we know how Bank of America is dealing with that kind of public airing of grievances by their customers, at least on the mortgage side of their business. They're ...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Jan 27
I’m headed off to a meeting of the Pima County Bond Advisory Committee today. My understanding is that Terri Proud and some other sponsors of a bill to cripple the county’s ability to sell bonds will be there. The bill would give Sahuarita, Oro Valley and Marana the ability to effectively veto projects. Ostensibly, this [...]...
Rum, Romanism and Rebellion - Jan 27 - 13 clicks
President Obama didn’t exactly walk away from Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) during their disagreement on Wednesday on an airport tarmac near Phoenix, said one of the only people to witness the exchange up close. The president simply began talking to the other two elected officials who were there to greet him. Mayor Scott Smith of Mesa, AZ, a Republican, was one of four individuals in the ...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Jan 27 - 15 clicks
We just can't keep this state off the front pages, whether it's Jan Brewer's wagging index finger or Joe Arpaio's head full of hate. Now, this afternoon: The Secret Service said Thursday that it was looking into a photograph posted on the Internet that showed a group of young Arizona men posing in the desert with guns while holding up what appeared to be a bullet-riddled image of President Oba...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Jan 26 - 10 clicks
If you haven't heard yet, a candidate for City Council in San Luis, Arizona, a border town on the Colorado River (and just east of the California border) near Yuma and Calexico/Mexicali, has been removed from the ballot because her English wasn't good enough . One more reminder of the impact of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gadsden Purchase -- the citizens we acquired between 18...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Jan 26 - 10 clicks
These guys can't leave well enough alone, can they? It's bad enough that GED Jan's wagging finger has been all over the national news, prompting comments that she is disrespectful, that she embarrassed Arizona (a weekly occurrence by some asshole), or that she may have been hammered. The heavy drinking accusation is not a new one. As early as 1988, when she was a state senator, Brewer was det...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Jan 26 - 10 clicks
Are you outraged about the book banning in Tucson ? Please take a few seconds to sign this petition . Let Superintendent Pedicone and the Tucson Unified School District Board know how you feel. You may rest assured that the Mexican-American Studies program boosts achievement and instills confidence, some would say too much confidence, in the students w...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Jan 26 - 5 clicks
There are a couple of other diaries about the finger-wagging episode when President Obama met Gov. Brewer in Arizona. Here's another take from David Keller of the Phoenix Congressional Oversight Examiner: "Did Tipsy Arizona Governor wag finger in Presidents face?" ...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Jan 26 - 6 clicks
I don't know about you, but to me the picture of Jan Brewer obviously yelling and with her finger up in his face embodies the sort of disrespect President Obama has been subjected to since day one of his presidency. See story (and sorry picture) here. Jan Brewer's office . Phone Numbers Phoenix Office: Tucson Office: Fax Number: In-State Toll Free: (602) 542-4331 (520) 628-6...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Jan 25 - 6 clicks
Gabby Giffords officially resigned today. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, read the letter, while Gabby held hands with AZ Republican congressman, Jeff Flake. Gabby was recognized as one who could cross the aisle to get things done. A rarity in today's congress. Gabby was my congresswoman, and she was shot at the Safeway where I shop. To be honest, Gabby was a Blue Dog and I am much more p...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Jan 25 - 4 clicks
Screw your "million years," Arpaio. At best you'll be a tiny salt shaker of grey dust by then and, besides, it's happening now , even though the dipshit Maricopa County Board of Supervisors is too shakey-legs to schedule a public discussion of your over-the-top malfeasance. Oh no, we can't talk about that in public -- you know, like citizens. Local activists for the past two months have dem...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Jan 25 - 3 clicks
By now, everyone has heard of the Republicans', led by Tom Horne and John Huppenthal, banning of Tucson's Ethnic Studies program, and of the Tucson Unified School District topping that by banning the books that were part of the curriculum ( as well as many more ). The Republicans didn't and don't approve of anything that contradicts their ideological stance that all brown people are bad. By no...
Random Musings - Jan 24 - 4 clicks
Arizona banned Mexican-American and Native American ethnic studies classes. The Tuscon Unified School District, after fighting it for a year, capitulated and shut down its ethnic studies program. The fallout is disturbing and evocative of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451: book banning on a potentially massive scale. ...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Jan 24 - 2 clicks
Rep. Trent Franks just can’t keep his hands to himself. Franks (R-Ariz.), author of the infamously ridiculous/sad May 2011 op-ed , “Women in Combat: The Culture War on the Backs of Our Troops” (excerpt: “It may surprise some of these feminists to learn, for example, that women can get pregnant while men, it turns out, cannot.”), has a long history of trying to tell women what they can and can...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Jan 24 - 2 clicks
Rep. Terri Proud, a Tea Party freshman in the Arizona Legislature, is sponsoring a bill allowing an elective course on “Biblical influence”. Here’s the language and your Diva has indicated the salient portion: So teachers, you are not required to use a specific version of the Bible. I recommend this one: The Skeptic’s Annotated Bible...
Democratic Diva - Jan 24 - 3 clicks
Look. America cannot make the best of the 21st century and reach whatever potential might be there to reach by 2100 unless as a country, we learn to face reality. We have issues. The business of getting it together and trying to progress is the business of seeing clearly: Global Warming. Science. Multi Cultural Being in a Pluralistic World of 7 Billion People....
DailyKos (Arizona) - Jan 24 - 2 clicks
Yesterday, the Arizona House; tonight, the Senate and other stuff ... ...Tuesday at 9 a.m., Veterans, Military, and Government Affairs will meet in SHR3. Fairly quiet. ...Tuesday at 2 p.m., Banking and Finance will meet in SHR3 . Fairly quiet. ( caveat: There are bills on this short agenda that I don't understand, so they may be sneaky bad bills. ) ...Tuesday at 2 p.m., ...
Random Musings - Jan 23 - 5 clicks
Redistricting in Arizona is done! Last week, the Independent Redistricting Commission voted 3-2 to approve the final Congressional and State Legislature maps for the state of Arizona. They were submitted to the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice for the necessary process of preclearance before they are officially enacted. The DOJ will grant preclearance, trust m...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Jan 22 - 3 clicks
Yesterday I participated in a workshop presented by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation and the Protect Chuk Shon Rio Nuevo group to learn about Agricultural Sustainability, Native Farming, Cultural History and Indigenous Values as part of the effort to reclaim and restore the land that is the ancient birthplace of Tucson, Arizona, to protect it from becoming privatized and destroyed by commerc...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Jan 22 - 2 clicks
A key passage in Arizona's HB 2281, the "ethnic studies ban" for elementary and secondary schools, reads: A. A SCHOOL DISTRICT OR CHARTER SCHOOL IN THIS STATE SHALL NOT INCLUDE IN ITS PROGRAM OF INSTRUCTION ANY COURSES OR CLASSES THAT INCLUDE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING: 1. PROMOTE THE OVERTHROW OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. 2. PROMOTE RESENTMENT TOWARD A RACE OR CLASS OF PEOPL...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Jan 19
State Senator David Schapira (D-LD17) ended weeks of speculation Tuesday when he announced that he is running for Congress in Arizona's new 9th Congressional District. His focus, both personally and politically, has been, is, and will be on education and economic issues. One of his motivations for running for a Congressional seat is to see that the coming reauthorization of the federal No Chil...
Random Musings - Jan 18
I sure hope Arizona's legislators receive royalties from the late-night talk shows, because they routinely provide Letterman, Leno, Fallon, and the others so much material to work with. Case in point: the new, revised, unadulterated Birther Bill! Now with less dick! Remember last year when the Arizona Legislature passed the infamous "Birther Bill?" And then Governor Jan Brewer -- in a rare m...
DailyKos (Arizona) - Jan 18 - 10 clicks
TUCSON -- The Arizona Eagle is on strike Wed. Jan 18 as part of a worldwide protest against internet censorship bills SOPA & PIPA in the US Congress. Please contact your US Rep. & Senators now. ...
Daniel's News & Views - Jan 17 - 10 clicks
I got the following email from the City of Phoenix: PHOENIX MANAGES TWO YEARS OF BUDGET DEFICITS; LEADERS PROJECT ZERO DEFICIT FOR 2012-13 After managing through a more than $330 million deficit over the last two years, Phoenix officials announced today that they are projecting no deficit for the upcoming fiscal year. “Revenues are improving [...]...
Democratic Diva - Jan 17 - 9 clicks
Brewer with her man Don 'take the money & run' Cardon. STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX – Rep. Daniel Patterson , D-Tucson, introduced a bill Thursday that would limit the salary of the CEO of the Arizona Commerce Authority. This follows the resignation Wednesday of Don Cardon , who grossed $300,000 annually as CEO of the authority. Cardon’s earnings also included a signing bonus of $50,0...
Daniel's News & Views - Jan 17 - 10 clicks
Federal developments of note: ...In a totally unsurprising development, State Sen. Ron Gould (R-The South will rise again!) announced that he is running for Congress in the new CD4. It is pretty much a safe R district, so the interesting fight will be in the primary. He joins Congressman Paul Gosar and Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu as officially in the race. There are a...
Random Musings - Jan 13
Arizonans back Grand Canyon protection. STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX – Rep. Daniel Patterson , D-Tucson, praised the decision by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to issue a moratorium on dangerous uranium mining on a million acres of land near the Grand Canyon. The moratorium will be in place for the next 20 years to protect public health and Arizona’s beautiful lands. “I app...
Daniel's News & Views - Jan 13
