SB1070 Update: Phoenix may lose $90 million
by David Safier Here are excerpts from a Republic article saying Phoenix could lose $90 million due to SB1070. Advertisement Metropolitan Phoenix, which already has suffered convention cancellations because of Arizona's new immigration law, risks losing as much as $90 million in hotel and convention business over the next five years because of the controversy, … Read more
Has Buzz Mills been eating too much of that Fools’ Gold?
by David Safier Buzz Mills, candidate for Governor, has a great plan. He wants to increase our surveillance of the border. That, of course, will cost money, so we need to cut back on less essential expenditures, like schools. And specifically, school administrators. How bad is it in our administratively top-heavy school districts? Mills tweeted … Read more
SB1070 Update: SB1070? LaLaLaLa, I can’t hear you!
by David Safier Six Republican legislators went to Cochise County on a "border fact-finding mission." But during a town hall, there was one fact they didn't want to deal with: SB1070. [T]here was one thing the state senators and representatives would not talk about — the bill recently signed by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer allowing … Read more
SB1070 Update: Star covers Paton fundraiser at D-Back game
by David Safier The Star has 3 separate articles related to SB1070 today. Let's hope they keep up the coverage. I'm most pleased about Rhonda Bodfield's article on the Paton fundraiser being held at the D-Back's Chase Field co-hosted by D-Backs owner and Managing General Partner Ken Kendrick. After Kendrick said he's kinda against SB1070 … Read more
Anti-tax zealots are divorced from reality
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: On April 15th, "Tax Day," we were again treated to the spectacle of teabaggers protesting taxes — despite the fact that 95% of Americans received a tax cut courtesy of President Obama. Federal income taxes are the lowest they have been in decades. Now with Prop. 100, the temporary one-cent sales tax … Read more
SB1070 Update: Phoenix New Times owners to underwrite lawsuit
by David Safier Yesterday, I expressed my respect for Marlene Phillips in the Examiner, the folks at tucsonsentinal.com and Jim Nintzel at the Weekly for stoking the fires with their SB1070 stories. I left out a major player in Phoenix, the Phoenix New Times. Now the New Times' owners are literally putting their money where … Read more
SB1070 Update: Arizona gets “Terminated”
by David Safier It sounds like Arnold is telling Arizona, "I won't be back." When Schwarzenegger is trying out his Jay Leno lame-one-liner impression at Arizona's expense during a commencement address at Emory University, you know the SB1070 story has gone prime time, and it isn't going away any time soon. "I was also going … Read more
