By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings …and "interfere" is something of an understatement… State Sen. Lori Klein, late of the controversy over a bigoted letter that she read on the Senate floor, has proposed a strike-everything amendment to HB2289, one that is scheduled for committee consideration at Thursday's meeting of Senate Finance. It concerns … Read more
by David Safier As Al Pacino [kind of] said in Godfather 3, "Just when I thought Matthew Ladner was out, he pulls me back in again." Ladner is now a "Senior Fellow" rather than an employee at the Goldwater Institute since he moved on to work for Jeb Bush's so-called "Foundation for Excellence in Education," … Read more
by David Safier I'm happy to say, I've never been in one of those Good Cop, Bad Cop situations where one cop threatens to beat the crap out of you, then the other steps in and "saves" you. But what we're getting out of the Russell Pearce/Jan Brewer confrontation sounds pretty close to the scenes … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: This is one of those pieces of anti-union "model" legislation that is working its way through Tea-Publican Legislatures across the country. There are currently bills in the Arizona Legislature that seek to ban union payroll deductions, SB 1555 (government employees; union dues; withholding) and HB 2395 (schools; payroll deductions; union dues). These bills … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a lawsuit challenging an eavesdropping law passed by Congress three years ago. Appellate Court Reinstates Lawsuit Challenging Wiretapping Powers – NYTimes.com: In the lawsuit, one of the few remaining on the issue, the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups charged that the expanded surveillance … Read more