DNC responds to “shakedown” charge
by David Safier Obama managed to get a $20 billion escrow account set aside by BP so that claims can be paid quickly without endless delays. Advertisement Republicans called it a Chicago style shakedown, a phrase that was repeated by Joe Barton (R-TX) at today's committee hearing. The DNC response: Reaction to Republicans apologizing to … Read more
SB1070 Update: Right playing into hands of National ID leftists?
by David Safier Oh. My. God. Is Russell Pearce an unwitting agent of Janet Napolitano and her DHS storm troopers? That's the sense I get from a post on Sonoran Alliance. [OK, this is strange. For the third time in 2 days, I'm linking to Sonoran Alliance. I hope there are no cosmic repercussions like … Read more
SB1070 Update: Church and SB1070
by David Safier Among the examples I've used here and in columns in the Explorer about the consequences of SB1070 is this: If a pastor or church-goer picks up people to drive them to Sunday worship and knows some of them are undocumented, everyone in the car, including the driver, can be in serious trouble … Read more
And then Hupp said, “they brought six ‘fricking’ video cameras into my office”
by David Safier It really looked like Huppenthal had dodged the bullet.Then he goes and shoots himself in the foot. The high school journalism video that seemed to make him look like an idiot was downgraded to a mere embarrassment, only making him look goofy and unprepared. Then he went and opened his mouth to … Read more
LD-26 Senate race goes nuclear
by David Safier When I say the LD-26 Senate race is going nuclear, I'm not speaking metaphorically. Cap'n Al Melvin, who will heretofore be referred to as Atomc Al, has come out in favor of dotting Arizona with nuclear power plants, each the size of the huge Palo Verde facility outside Phoenix. But that doesn't … Read more
Politics, meet Strange Bedfellows
by David Safier Sonoran Alliance goes after McCain's connection to lobbyists by . . . now that's something you don't see every day . . . By using a video put together by the very progressive Robert Greenwald, who creates his videos under the BraveNew Films Production banner. Sonoran Alliance is none too fond of … Read more
Even more on the Huppenthal video
by David Safier Democratic Diva, which was the source of my story about the Hupp video, has issued a mea culpa. . . . it seems that the snippet of the interview I got from youtube was taken out of context and that Huppenthal did return after he’d left the room and completed the interview. … Read more
