Mitchell and Giffords Draw Fire From the Left
Harry Mitchell and Gabby Giffords are hearing radio ads telling them to straighten up and fly… er, left on the Iraq war. Some Democrats are doing more than complaining about Harry and Gabby’s votes to continue funding Bush’s folly in Iraq. Here’s the ad: Listen to Voided.mp3 Advertisement Get out your checkbook now and send … Read more
Arizona’s Deficient Bridges
As the nation watches in stunned amazement as dead Americans are pulled from beneath the rubble of a major bridge on an interstate highway in a major metro area, we have to wonder: what are this nation’s priorities? Are we to become a third-world nation with a decaying, failing infrastructure and a tin-pot dictator at … Read more
Diana Rhoades: A Thousand Trees, Please!
Diana Rhoades is a Director of the Board of the Downtown Alliance and is passionate about creating living, vibrant street-scapes in Tucson that we can be proud of. She is currently running Regina Romero’s City Council campaign. She is advocating a project to beautify downtown through the planting of 1000 trees that will use passive … Read more
Paul Eckerstrom’s Legacy of Election Integrity
Paul Eckerstrom and I had a great conversation after a recent Drinking Liberally session about his role in the Election Integrity movement and getting the audit legislation passed. If you want to learn how grassroots politics works at its best, I encourage you to take the time to listen in. Download eckerstrom.wav Paul (on the … Read more
Harry Reid and the Sorcerer’s Stonewall, featuring Rovamort
A humorous take on the GOP’s obstructionist tactics, taking on a serious subject in a manner that even a political muggle can grasp:
Harry’s Wealth Tax Breaks… for the Middle Class?
I had a conversation (if me yelling a lot can be called a conversation) with Seth Scott, Representative Harry Mitchell’s Press Secretary about Harry’s co-sponsorship of a tax cut plan to keep Capital Gains taxes at their current Bush-mandated rate, and to decrease estate taxes by increasing the exemption to 3.75 million and graduating the … Read more
Rest In Peace: Jesse Latas
The memorial service for Jesse will be at 9:00 Friday (8/3) morning at Adair Avalon Chapel, 8090 N. Northern Avenue, Tucson, http://www.adairfuneralhomes.com/Finding_Us.html. Graveside services will be at 1:00 Friday (8/3) afternoon at the Southern Arizona Veterans’ Cemetery, 1300 Buffalo Soldier Trail, Sierra Vista, AZ, http://www.azdvs.gov/veteranscemetery.htm Memorials may be sent to any of the following organizations: … Read more
