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Action Alert: AIRC under assault today in the Senate
February 8, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Senate Committee on Government Reform has a long agenda beginning at 9:00 a.m. today, but among the bills under consideration are two bills that are part of the Tea-Publican assault on the Arizona Independent Redistricitng Commission. SB 1489 would Increase the scope of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission to require the AIRC to
I’m not the only one demanding a public apology from Michael Hicks
February 7, 2012
by David Safier If you read my post below, you'll see why I think TUSD Board member Michael Hicks needs to make a public apology. I want Hicks to retract the outrageous allegations he made in a radio interview — that Wakefield Middle School students may have been sexually abused while they were at UA.
Michael Hicks, either give a reason for your unsubstantiated allegation or publicly withdraw it
February 7, 2012
by David Safier While being interviewed on Garrett Lewis' morning talk show, TUSD Board member Michael Hicks intimated Wakefield Middle School children might have been sexually abused when they attended a college course at UA. He has yet to comment on his vicious, unsubstantiated allegation. Hicks should either give some reason why he suspects the
Purposefully deceptively titled ballot measure to kill Citizens Clean Elections passed in Senate committee
February 7, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Jonathan "Payday" Paton is no longer in the legislature, but his No Taxpayer Money for Politicians Group continues his purposefully deceptive attempts to repeal Citizens Clean Elections that began in 2010. Paton thinks the voters are just a bunch of rubes for ever enacting Citizens Clean Elections, and he wants you to repeal it. On Monday,
What will we tell the (college aged) children?
February 7, 2012
by David Safier Story after story has detailed cheating on standardized tests by K-12 teachers and administrators to raise schools' scores and rankings. Now comes the not-very-surprising fact that colleges have been cooking the books to raise their ratings on the U.S. News & World Report list of "America's Best Colleges." It's pretty much a
Grijalva on labor relations, union issues
February 7, 2012
by David Safier Adam Sarvana, Raúl M. Grijalva's Communications Director, forwards this quote from Grijalva's comments on C-SPAN this morning: “This union-bashing and this anti-union fervor, almost a frenzy, that’s going on right now, it’s a blame game. Let’s blame the unions for our economic woes. Let’s blame the immigrants for our economic woes. What
Fool’s Gold: Best reason to buy back govt. buildings is, we don’t have to spend that money on education or children’s health
February 7, 2012
by David Safier The Goldwater Institute thinks it's a great idea to buy back state buildings now, at no savings to the government, instead of using the $106 million to help build the state. Republicans have said for the past few years they had no choice but cut spending on education and children's health care
California’s anti-marriage equality Prop. 8 unconstitutional
February 7, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: A 2-1 decision by a panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today held that Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that limited marriage to one man and one woman, violates the U.S. Constitution. Prop. 8: Gay-marriage ban unconstitutional, court rules – latimes.com: “Proposition 8 served no purpose, and had no
