It’s time for Liberals to Drink at The Shanty, on 4th Ave. and 9th St., in downtown Tucson, starting a 6pm. This week our Special Guest is Congressonal Candidate for CD 8 Jeff Latas. Jeff will be joining us about 8pm due to other commitments. Advertisement Our new book club, Reading Liberally will be meeting, … Read more

The WSJ.com reports that Pederson (44.2%) is now well within margin of error (+/- 3.7% at 95% confidence) of Kyl (48.3%) and the trend of polling is clearly continuing to close the gap. That result means that Pederson could well be in the lead, though it is certainly more likely that Kyl retains a few … Read more

An hour-long forum featuring the Democratic candidates for Congress from Arizona’s district 8. Hosted by Bill Buckmaster. Let the softballs fly!!!

I’ve been reluctant to post on this topic because it has been so widely covered in the blogs already, I didn’t want to pile on, I really had nothing to add: the poll’s implications are pretty obvious. That, and I was hoping to squeeze more internals from the poll out of Jim Nintzel. No such … Read more

Southern Arizona Stonewall Democrats will host a debate between State Senate Democratic primary opponents is the controversial LD 28 race. From the Press Release: Monday night we will have our monthly meeting at Colors on Speedway starting at 6:30. Appetizers will be served and there will be a cash bar. In addition to our regular … Read more

It’s impossible at this point to definitively point a finger for the Spousal Rape law push polling in LD 28 (Download rape_push_poll.wav), but I certainly hope that the Democratic party will thoroughly investigate the matter, bringing in legal authorities if warranted. I doubt this operation has any direct connection to Aboud’s campaign. Paula Aboud is … Read more

Conversation. Beer. Good Cheer. You want more from your Thursday evening? What you receiving a Nobel or something? Come on down. Meanwhile, look into the soul of the opposition: Wowsa. That ain’t pretty. And in case you haven’t caught it yet; a reporter in stupid-lookin’ suit actually doing his job and asking follow-up questions, catches … Read more