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Prepare for the headline: Mesa Recalls Russell Pearce!
May 12, 2011
by David Safier I just got off a conference call with Chad Snow and Randy Parraz of Citizens for a Better Arizona, the group spearheading the Recall Russell Pearce campaign. Here's the news: It takes 7,756 signatures to recall Pearce. The group says it already has 14,000 to 15,000 signatures, of which they are sure
Huppenthal gets preliminary Ethnic Studies audit report
May 12, 2011
by David Safier The first shoe has dropped with the Ethnic Studies audit report. A preliminary report on TUSD's ethnics studies program has been turned in to the state department of education. What's in it? The ADE isn't saying. The report will be reviewed to see if it's complete, and it will be released .
Sean Arce: “Lines of communication are totally down”
May 12, 2011
by David Safier The two sides in the local battle over Ethnic Studies and Mexican Americans Studies may be natural adversaries, but there is no reason they should be natural enemies. The sides have genuine disagreements about aspects of Ethnic Studies, but Pedicone and Stegeman support the program's existence, unlike the virulently anti-public education, anti-Hispanic
Senate Ethics Panel refers criminal case against Sen. John Ensign to the DOJ
May 12, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Ah, and he thought that by resigning from the Senate he could avoid the Senate Ethics Committee from holding him accountable. Senate ethics committee: Ensign violated federal laws – The Washington Post: The Senate Ethics Committee on Thursday declared that it has “substantial and credible evidence” that former senator John Ensign broke
Everything old is new again: Tea-Publicans propose a Balanced Budget Amendment
May 12, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: This segment of The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell from Tuesday's program features an interview with Ezra Klein of the Washington Post discussing the Tea-Publican proposal for a Balanced Budget Amendment Plus. I say Plus, because this lame-brain proposal contains elements beyond the Balanced Budget Amendment on which Republicans ran for office
Catholic Church weighs in on the Tea-Publican Agenda
May 12, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Catholic Church's single-minded obsession with abortion politics since 1973 led to a revival of a conservative movement within the church that in the past decade or so led the church to involve itself in secular politics. Some bishops have been so bold as to go so far as to tell parishioners
Neoconfederate Tea-Publicans to propose a ‘Nullification’ Amendment
May 12, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: A group of Republicans in the House and Senate are proposing an amendment to the Constitution that would allow a vote by two-thirds of the states' legislatures to override any federal law they did not agree with, i.e., Sen. John C. Calhoun's Doctrine of Nullification, rejected and discredited since the end of
John McCain Denounces Torture: ‘The Very Idea Of America Is At Stake’
May 12, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Sen. John McCain previously was an advocate against inhumane treatment of prisoners. McCain successfully included an anti-torture amendment to the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 (commonly referred to as the Amendment on (1) the Army Field Manual and (2) Cruel, Inhumane, Degrading Treatment, amendment #1977 and also known as the McCain Amendment
