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Update: Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission meeting Thursday – Tucson
June 28, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission has noticed a second meeting this week. In addition to its meeting in Phoenix on Wednesday, the AIRC will meet in Tucson on Thursday. http://www.azredistricting.org/docs/Meeting-Info/Agenda-063011.pdf. Location: Pima Community College – District Office 4905 E. Broadway Blvd. Building “C” Room #105 Tucson, AZ 85709 (West of Rosemont Blvd.) Date: Thursday, June
A really bad idea: Prop. 13 Arizona
June 28, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Oh dear God, when will this fool ever learn? Lynne Weaver, a California transplant who should know better, is again chairing a committee for an initiative dubbed "Prop. 13 Arizona." This is Weaver’s third bid to put the issue on the ballot. Prior efforts in 2008 and 2010 failed because she did
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords makes first public appearance
June 28, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: More encouraging news on the recovery of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. ABC News reports Gabrielle Giffords Appears With Mark Kelly for Spaceflight Medal Ceremony: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords made her first public appearance in front of a crowd since being shot in the head Jan. 8, rising from her wheelchair to hug and kiss
The lying right-wing noise machine circles the wagons for ‘King’ Russell Pearce
June 28, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: For the right, facts do not matter, only the narrative. They believe what they want to believe despite lack of evidence or provable facts to the contrary. As an aide to George W. Bush once famously described to author Ron Suskind, "we create our own reality." This "alternate reality" is a celebration
Save Ethnic Studies Forum Thursday, June 30
June 27, 2011
by David Safier If you've been following the news and my posts about Mexican American Studies, you understand the controversy, but for a look inside the program from a philosophical, pedagogical and personal perspective, you have to attend an SES forum. I went to the last one, and as much time as I've spent looking
Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission meeting Wednesday – Phoenix
June 27, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission could use a better managed web site. Like maybe posting meeting notices and agendas on the web site well in advance of scheduled meetings to encourage public participation and testimony. It's almost as if the Commission doesn't want the public to know when they are meeting, or
‘They’re going to put me in the movies…’
June 27, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: After bigfooting Willard "Mittens" Romney's campaign kickoff in New Hampshire with her magical mystery tour bus trip to nowhere with the sycophant media villagers in tow, Sarah Palin is now headed to Pella, Iowa on Tuesday to bigfoot today's campaign kickoff for the Minnesota Loon, Rep. Michelle Bachman (R-MN) in Waterloo, Iowa. The Quitta
Why Russell Pearce looks unhappy
June 27, 2011
by David Safier The Capitol Times' cover article (subscription only) has one of the better graphics I've seen lately: an unhappy looking Russell Pearce next to a Spanish language copy of The Book of Mormon. Pearce has a problem. His church doesn't agree with his stand on illegal immigration. Pearce loves to talk about the
