Now, this I like
by David Safier This may be the strongest and smartest strategy the Democrats have employed this election season: going straight at the Tea Party. Advertisement Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine today will announce a new party initiative aimed at defining the Republicans who want to win control of Congress as tea partiers who want … Read more
The Arizona Republic endorses Penny Kotterman in Dem primary for Superintendent of Public Instruction
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Republic today endorsed Penny Kotterman in the Democratic primary for Superintendent of Public Instruction. Kotterman has skills to do the job: Unique among state agency "directors," the state superintendent of public instruction must run a substantial bureaucracy while establishing policy for the state's public schools, a huge undertaking. It is … Read more
SB1070 Update: Asylum seekers could be in trouble
by David Safier I thought I'd heard or thought of every basic scenario having to do with SB1070, but there's one I missed: people seeking political asylum in the U.S. In an excellent analysis of the various ways SB1070 is likely to be enforced across Arizona — think Tower of Babel — Jeffrey Kaye brings … Read more
SB1070 Update: What could possibly go wrong?
by David Safier Call me crazy, but I think this headline has an ominous ring: Arpaio ready for SB1070 demonstrations What could possibly go wrong? Sheriff Joe is ready, because his "intelligence gathering" tells him the anti-SB1070 protesters planning events in Phoenix this week are up to no good. "Intelligence gathering leads us to believe … Read more
SB1070 Update: Why haven’t Dems turned this into a slogan?
by David Safier A CNN poll says 81% of Americans support a path to citizenship for immigrants who are willing to work and pay taxes. Here's the wording of the item: Creating a program that would allow illegal immigrants already living in the United States for a number of years to stay here and apply … Read more
G.I.: More education cuts on the horizon
by David Safier Call this a red letter day. I'm going to quote something written by one of the high paid folks at the Goldwater Institute as a source, rather than ripping it to shreds. Byron Schlomach, director of G.I.'s Center for Economic Prosperity (Don't you love the straight-out-of-"1984" name of the Center?), says we're … Read more
SB1070 Update: They can’t handle the [racial profiling] truth
by David Safier We need more of this. ABC's Channel 15 in Phoenix approached the question of SB1070 and racial profiling head on. In a news story, UA law professor Gabriel Jackson Chin said racial profiling is built into SB1070. Chin has written at length on the topic many times before, as I've posted here. … Read more
