Month: September 2015

Pima County Board of Supervisors appoint attorney Patrick Moran to Justice of the Peace (updated)

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Pima County Consolidated Justice Court Justice of the Peace Luis Castillo retired from JP Precinct 2 on August 31, 2015.  A process was set up for applicants to apply for that position, be interviewed at a League of Women Voters forum on Sept. 10, then be appointed by the Pima County Bd. of Supervisors at their 9/15/15 meeting.

More info on the process: https://blogforarizona.net/justice-of-the-peace-candidates-sought-in-precinct-2/

Names of individuals who applied by the August 28 deadline, all apparently residents of Precinct 2:

Patrick Alan Moran
Alfonso G. Ramirez
Richard S. Madril
Chris T. Holguin
Arlene D. Leoni
Henry Atha (not listed on final applicant list to the Board for consideration)

The Board appointed Patrick Moran to the position today. District 2 Supervisor Ramon Valadez made the nomination over the 4 other candidates. The vote was unanimous, 5-0.

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Is this the best we can expect in Arizona?

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Sigh. Kate Brophy McGee is a Republican legislator who caucuses with, and votes with, her party the majority of the time. I’m not going to throw shade on the AZ Children’s Action Alliance for awarding her. They do what they gotta do and if Brophy McGee voted for the things the CAA considers immediately important, … Read more

“Growing Up in Tucson” panel discussion

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Date and time: Sep 17, 2015 6:00pm to 8:00pm Location: UA Special Collections, 1510 E. University Blvd. Guest speakers: Richard Elias, Member, Pima County Board of Supervisors, District 5 Lydia Otero, PhD. Professor, Mexican American Studies Molly McKasson, former Tucson Councilmember, Ward 6 Katya Peterson, businesswoman, daughter of Cele Peterson This evening’s panel features an eclectic group … Read more

New York Times scandalizes Clinton while trolling for J.E.B.! Bush

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Nancy LeTourneau at the Political Animal blog noted what has become glaringly obvious to any regular reader of the New York Times. The New York Times Blows It…Again:

We’ve all witnessed the way the New York Times has been so fast to report negative rumors when it comes to the story about Hillary Clinton’s emails and so slow to report the facts when she is exonerated.

[See earlier post, Rumors vs Facts on Hillary Clinton’s Email:

Hillary-Clinton-textingAs you know by now, the rumors have been flying, fueled in large part by shoddy reporting at the New York Times – of all places. Then on Wednesday, there was an important development in the story. By Thursday, the only media reporting about it was the Washington Times. Then on Friday, BuzzFeed had an article about it. Justice Department Lawyers: Clinton Had Authority To Delete Personal Emails.

By Friday night, major news outlets like the Associated Press had the story and then (finally!) the New York Times ran with it (they were clearly not the “paper of record” on this one).]

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I’m not going to try to analyze what is going on at the New York Times. I’ll simply say that I’ve seen enough by now to know that I have to question their frame on any story. That is a sad commentary on our country’s supposed “newspaper of record.”

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Bad Sign: Glenn Beck’s Number One Best Seller

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That literary giant, Glenn Beck, has a new book out: It Is About Islam.

And it spent the last week on the New York Times best seller list.

Chew on that for a few seconds.

From the reviews I’ve read, the title should be “I’m a raging Islamaphobe.”

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