Arizona media misleads on restoration of organ transplant funds
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Last week all the newspapers carried headlines about how Gov. Jan Brewer was fighting to restore funding to organ transplant patients in the budget finally adopted last week (leaving out the fact that she had terminated the coverage on October 1, 2010, and her office blocked consideration of any bills to retore … Read more
“water with 5 million times the legal limit of radioactivity”
by David Safier I was more than a little disturbed when they were reporting water at 100,000 times the legal limit for radioactivity coming from the Fukushima Daiichi plant. But when you hit 5 million times the legal limit . . . words fail. So now the government is considering restrictions on seafood. They found … Read more
How Citizens United Increases Foreign Influence Over American Politics
By Michael Bryan A frequently unrecognized effect of the Citizens United decision is that it will inevitably lay open our political system to unfettered foreign influence. By giving corporations constitutional rights within our political system, the Supreme Court has ensured that foreign governments and corporations have a constitutionally-based means to infiltrate and corrupt our political … Read more
Is Jan Brewer a governor moonlighting as a lobbyist, or a lobbyist moonlighting as a governor?
By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings Either way, she seems spend her days helping out Chuck Coughlin… From the Arizona Republic, written by Ginger Rough - Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday issued a statement in which she expressed "great disappointment and sadness" over the Fiesta Bowl scandal and pledged to convene a panel of Arizona business … Read more
Pics from the Union Solidarity Rally and BBQ
by David Safier Here are a few pics from the solidarity rally and picnic downtown today. I put the rough count of participants at 150-200. Best t-shirt of the day, and possibly the best t-shirt concept I have ever seen: "Slavery is the Legal Fiction that a Person is Property. Corporate Personhood is the Legal … Read more
Forbes vs. Russell Pearce
by David Safier One of the signs Obama was becoming a sure thing in 2008 was the serial defections of moderate Republicans who said in a hundred different ways, "My party has left me." So what does it mean that a Forbes blog picked up the statement from Former Intel Chief Exec Craig Barrett that … Read more
Southern Arizona Republicans Fail to Stand Up for Public Safety; Bow to Phoenix Political Bosses
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Press release from the Pima County Democratic Party: Southern Arizona Republicans Fail to Stand Up for Public Safety; Bow to Phoenix Political Bosses State Senate President Russell Pearce has put politics ahead of public safety by slashing all of Pima County's border security gang task force money, and southern Arizona’s GOP lawmakers … Read more
