Screening Liberally 6/29
Drinking Liberally presents Screening Liberally this Thursday. Liberal Drinkers will be attending Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvient Truth’ at the 5:10 pm showing at Century El Con 20. Look for the Drinking Liberally pins on people in the lobby. You can buy tickets at the door (no danger of sell-outs now) or buy them online in … Read more
Who is William “Bill” Johnson, Candidate for CD 8?
UPDATE: Picked up by Dave Niewert at Orcinus. It surprised a lot of people when William Daniel Johnson jumped into the Democratic primary in Arizona’s Congressional District 8 at the last minute. He filed his FEC organization on 5/13/06, and filed 1430 signatures on 6/14/06 out of the blue. That’s nearly as many signatures as … Read more
Towards An Oil Free Congress
UPDATE: The rally went very well. We had about 50 people turn out and media coverage from KGUN 9 News. Patty Weiss and Franchine Shacter both came in person, along with volunteers and representatives from the Latas and Giffords campaigns. Patty took a pledge on camera, and Shacter and Giffords also intend to take a … Read more
Drinking Liberally 6/22
This evening beginning at 6pm, Liberals will be Drinking at the Shanty. The Shanty is located in Downtown Tucson at 9th Street and 4th Avenue at the underpass. There will be free sandwiches tonight courtesy of the Shanty. Tonight our guests are Democratic Councilman Steve Leal and Democratic candidate for Congress in District 2, Dr. … Read more
Giffords’ SB1065 Vote Analyzed To Death
A pseudonymous blogger called Dogma, who says that he is a 45-year-old military systems analyst from St. David Arizona, wrote a very fair and concise analysis of the controversial SB1065 bill from 2004. The post was buried at the end of a long thread of comments on Art Jacobson’s blog Data Port, on June 9th. … Read more
Reconsidering a Guest Worker Program
I have done that naughtiest of things: I have flip-flopped. I have concluded that a policy I used to tepidly favor is, in fact, a poor idea and losing proposition for the Democratic Party. So, now I guess I’m unelectable. Oh well… The Gordian knot of immigration is the conflict between the GOP’s nativists, Democrats’ … Read more
