Lynn/Urquides Elementary School gets sizable library grant
by David Safier Friend of El Blog and Assistant Principal at Lynn/Urquides Elementary Patt Hale emailed me Thursday, giddy with excitement, about a grant her school's library received. Today the story is in the Star: Advertisement The Lynn/Urquides Elementary School library is about to undergo an extreme makeover after receiving a grant that will outfit … Read more
Sen. Russell Pearce’s next target: women and babies
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: H/t to the Rachel Maddow blog Arizona's Pearce goes after moms: "If we are going to have an effect on the anchor baby racket, we need to target the mother. Call it sexist, but that's the way nature made it. Men don't drop anchor babies, illegal alien mothers do." That statement was … Read more
Federal court upholds Clean Elections matching funds
Posted by Craig McDermott From a Howard Fischer story in the AZ Daily Star – Arizona laws which give matching dollars to publicly financed candidates for office when their privately funded foes spend more are legal, a federal appeals court ruled today. In a unanimous decision, the three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of … Read more
SB1070 Update: Guilty until proven innocent
by David Safier Doesn't this sound a little police state-ish to the right wing? It does to me. If a police officer has "reasonable suspicion" you are in the U.S. without the proper papers, you are considered guilty until proven innocent. Based on nothing more than looking nervous and wearing the wrong clothes — we're … Read more
SB1070 Update: It’s . . . It’s . . . Oh, just watch it.
by David Safier The Accidental Guv wants to become the Elected Guv. Here's a video from the Governor Jan Brewer 2010 campaign. Words fail me. Watch it yourself. (h/t to Marlene Phillips)
SB1070 Update: Show me your papers — if you have any
by David Safier I've posted about the mistaken notion that SB1070 pretty much just requires drivers to have driver's licenses with them. SB1070 "stops" can range from traffic stops to street stops to overgrown-lawn stops. Oh, and even if it's a traffic stop, an out-of-state driver's license is no good. It needs to be an … Read more
