The fallout begins: La Opinión Calls for National Boycott of Arizona
April 26, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: An editorial in the Los Angeles Spanish-language daily La Opinión calls for a national boycott of Arizona after the governor signed the nation's toughest bill on illegal immigration into law on Friday. The new law makes it a misdemeanor to be undocumented, and requires police to question people about their immigration status
You know you’re in trouble when Tom Tancredo says you’ve gone too far
April 26, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Holy crap! Here's one for the "things I thought I would never see" file. AZ Immigration Law Goes Too Far For Tom Tancredo: Former Congressman Tom Tancredo — the same guy who said we should send the president back to Kenya and said a Supreme Court nominee is part of the "Latino
A quarter million and counting at “1 MILLION Strong AGAINST the Arizona Immigration Law SB1070”
April 26, 2010
by David Safier The numbers keep climbing on the Facebook page, "1 MILLION Strong AGAINST the Arizona Immigration Law SB1070," from 86,000 when I joined on Saturday to over a quarter million — 259,606 at this moment — and 10 seconds later, 259,665. Another minute later, 259,947. I've got to quit reloading the page, or
A quarter million and counting at “1 MILLION Strong AGAINST the Arizona Immigration Law SB1070”
April 26, 2010
by David Safier The numbers keep climbing on the Facebook page, "1 MILLION Strong AGAINST the Arizona Immigration Law SB1070," from 86,000 when I joined on Saturday to over a quarter million — 259,606 at this moment — and 10 seconds later, 259,665. Another minute later, 259,947. I've got to quit reloading the page, or
President Obama announces Vote 2010
April 26, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: From the CNN PoliticalTicker, http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/: In the two-minute and 42-second video released Monday, Obama emphasizes that the key to victory for Democrats in November will be convincing the people who helped fuel his 2008 White House bid – first-time voters – to head to the polls for the second time in two
Yet another reason to fight SB 1070
April 26, 2010
by David Safier SB 1070 is more than an Arizona problem. As with the back door vouchers also known as Tuition Tax Credits, vouchers and, more recently, anti-teacher tenure legislation, Arizona is a conservative stalking horse for the rest of the country. If right wing legislation gets a foothold here, it can spread like a
Imagine Schools take a beating in the NY Times
April 26, 2010
by David Safier I've posted often about problems with Imagine Schools, a corporation out of Virginia that runs 71 charter schools across the country, including 13 in Arizona. Saturday, the issues raised here, on other blogs and in local papers across the country (no papers in Arizona, unfortunately) received major coverage in the NY Times.
Test vote today in the U.S. Senate for financial services regulatory reform
April 26, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Comedian Will Durst captured the Republicans' bipolar response to financial services regulatory reform perfectly. Will Durst's response to 'Open Mike, April 24-25': Hard to feel much sympathy for the Republicans and the sloppy pool of tizzy they high-dived into. Perplexed as how to combat financial regulatory legislation, they are bouncing back and
