SB1070 Update: San Diego School District: Kids, don’t travel to Arizona
by David Safier Tuesday SDUSD will vote on a resolution proposed by the School Board president. It's just another example of the blowback over our regressive ways. Advertisement Board of Education will consider on Tuesday warning its students and parents against travel to Arizona, where a new immigration law was recently adopted. A resolution proposed … Read more
SB1070 Update: “9500 Liberty”
by David Safier The film "9500 Liberty" will be playing in the Phoenix area. The Phoenix New Times writes, "9500 Liberty a Must-See for Those Concerned by SB 1070." It's a documentary about a Prince William County, Virginia, "probable cause" resolution, created by FAIR, the same group that helped Pearce write SB1070: PWC's "probable cause" … Read more
Bodfield Mischaracterizes Clean Elections
It has become a common slander of the right wing to charge that Clean Elections are welfare for politicians or taxpayer funded elections. It's a slander because it is simply not true. Clean Elections does not get ANY tax dollars, at all. It accepts only voluntary contributions and surcharges on criminal and civil penalties. Not … Read more
SB1070 Update: 1,443,617 Strong AGAINST the Arizona Immigration Law SB1070
by David Safier Last time I counted, 1 MILLION Strong AGAINST the Arizona Immigration Law SB1070 had topped half a million. Now it's closing in on a million and a half. 1,443,658 to be exact, at 10:36AM Sunday (That's 41 more than when I wrote the headline about a minute ago). Join in. Tell your … Read more
Sen. McCain’s cheesy new ad: Complete the danged fence
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: President Ronald Reagan is supposed to be some kind of iconic hero for having said "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." That was then, this is now. Today, Republicans are falling all over themselves to put up a wall on the U.S. border — just with Mexico, mind you. Canada, not so … Read more
Praising Star headline with faint damns
by David Safier It's a pretty good headline: Obama: Health-care law already helping No real complaints about the Star headline for the AP story about the first positive effects of health care reform on families and businesses. But I was curious to see how other papers headlined the story. I found, other papers used the … Read more
Another late entry in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Capitol Times Yellow Sheet in a tweet YellowSheetReport (TheYellowSheet) on Twitter reported: Former DHS Director Catherine Eden files to run as Dem candidate for U.S. Senate. 4:58 PM May 6th via TweetDeck Dan Nowicki at the Arizona Republic reports Sunday 3 Democrats join battle to unseat John McCain: Former state … Read more
