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Tucson City Council Election Update: Add Pat Darcy to petition challenges
June 8, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I told you that Pat Darcy used paid petition circulators in recent weeks to collect his signatures. "Generally speaking, paid petition circulators have at best a 60% valid signature rate of return, which could leave Darcy short of the number of valid signatures required to qualify for the ballot." Tucson City Council
Another indication private schools [and, by extension, charters] do not provide superior education
June 8, 2011
by David Safier You'd think if you sent your child to the private Riverdale Country School in the Bronx to the tune of $38,800 a year, that would be all the top flight education your child would need. But you would be wrong. According to today's NY Times story, you could be spending as much
In Memoriam: Bob Bland, Cochise County Democratic Party Chair
June 8, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: It is with sadness that I post about the untimely death of Bob Bland, Cochise County Democratic Party Chair. When I last spoke to Bob he was planning a cross-country drive to visit his mother back East and visit friends and family along the way. Then came the e-mail that he had
Gun violence prevention groups join in call for stronger gun laws after Al Qaeda video
June 7, 2011
by David Safier The video by Adam Gadahn urging American-based terrorists to take advantage of the gun show loophole has led five national gun violence prevention organizations to sent a joint letter to the President Obama. Fourteen state and regional groups signed the letter as well. Here's the money quote from the letter: [W]e call
Scofflaw Russell Pearce and his friends put the “F” back in Freedom
June 7, 2011
by David Safier How can I pass this up? Pearce is being helped in his fight against the recall effort by his buddy-in-racism, Tom Tancredo. Pearce figures he can take corporate donations, even though the state says he can't. [S]tate elections officials say Arizona law bans corporate and union donations to influence an election, and
About that reprimand of Ethnic Studies’ Sean Arce
June 7, 2011
by David Safier Here's the basic story: TUSD Assistant Superintendent Lupita Cavazos-Garcia formally reprimanded MAS Director Sean Arce for canceling an awards ceremony for Mexican-American students. Arce wrote a formal response to the reprimand through his lawyer. Cavazos-Garcia then made the reprimand official. I read Cavazos-Garcia's reprimand and Arce's response. From my vantage point as
Weiner has got to go
June 7, 2011
by David Safier Yesterday I called Anthony Weiner stupid but said he shouldn't resign, based on what I knew then. Today it looks like he was stupid on steroids. The silly/naughty pics he sent to women are one thing, but the lengths he went to cover his online relationships up shows a lack of basic
Sex, Lies and Social Media
June 7, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Boy, did I ever pick the wrong day to get ill and have to take a sick day. Monday was a confluence of the prurient sexual interests of the "lamestream media," comprised mostly of reporters whose intellectual development was stunted during pre-adolescence, and the prurient sexual interests of one equally pre-adolescent Rep.
