I’m saddened to have to conclude that, following a good start in the 100 hours agenda, the Democratic Congress looks be failing due to a lack of political courage. The failure of our Democratic leadership is playing out along two intimately related axes: the Iraq war and impeachment of Bush and Cheney. Our utter defeat … Read more

Steve Farley, the newly elected Representative of LD 28 is showing what solid constituent communication looks like. If you are interested in state house affairs, I strongly recommend you sign up for his FarleyGrams.

    Howdy, Friends o’ Farley…

[a note to LD28 PCs–I just realized you might like to get this email every week, so you are now on this list. If you would like the previous six emails, let me know and I will send them to you in one LONG email. If you don’t want to be on this list, let me know that, too.]

Wow, another huge Government Committee meeting. That’s two in a row at five hours plus. But I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else right now. (Even though I am suffering from fever and other effects of some nasty virus that is tearing through this place.)

The Government Committee, upon which I sit as Ranking Member, has turned out to be the showcase committee for all the big Republican policy pushes. Last week it was their efforts to gut the citizen initiative process, Clean Elections, and HealthCareGroup. (A quick aside on that–I am now leading the fight to save HCG after being asked to do so by the Governor’s staff who watched me go nose to nose with the Speaker on that last week.) This week’s topic: immigration.
 

Steven Freeman has the real facts about the 2004 election; he is award winning author, election integrity activist and will be presenting and having a book signing in Tucson at 6:30 pm this Friday, Feb. 23rd at the Plumbers and Steamfitters Union Hall. For those in Tucson, please stop by and meet Steven and bring … Read more

The entire media-scape is littered with accusations, speculation, refutation, and rhetoric regarding the allegations by a faction within the Bush Administration that Iran is supplying shaped explosive charges to militias who engage in armed conflict with American and coalition forces in Iraq. The whole thing boils down to a very dubious set of facts and … Read more

Link: BillHop.com – Arizona. Hate the Arizona Legislature’s billtracker? I do. It is cludgey, hard to edit, badly designed, and not easy to refer to. Maybe that’s all intentional… Moreover, it is hard for distributed, loosely coordinated groups to collaborate to markup and publicize bills they like and don’t like. Blogs have their place, but … Read more

Russell Lowes will be speaking about nuclear power this weekend. Russell is a Drinking Liberally regular and I encourage you to attend if you want to learn more about why restarting the nuclear industry in America is not a solution to our energy and greenhouse gas emissions problems. Talk:  "Nuclear Power is a Threat to … Read more