The Count: 314,133
by David Safier That's the new count on the Facebook page, "1 MILLION Strong AGAINST the Arizona Immigration Law SB1070": 314,133 as of 5:48pm Monday. I put down the time because the count will probably be higher by 5:49. Advertisement Jump right in. Tell your friends. Advertisement
G.I. is AWOL on SB 1070
by David Safier Democratic Diva commented that the Goldwater Institute has been strangely silent about the new anti-immigrant law. She includes G.I. in a list with the Chamber of Commerce and the Tea Partiers, both of whom are usually eager to register their opinions at a moment's notice but seem to have, um, missed all … Read more
Update: Test vote fails as GOP and Sen. Ben Nelson side with the pirates of Wall Street over Americans
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Senate Democrats failed to muster enough votes Monday to take up Wall Street reform, with Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., voting against a proposal to officially start debating the Wall Street reform legislation before other lawmakers on a Senate Banking panel negotiate a deal. Senate debate on Wall Street reform delayed: That move … Read more
Will Major League Sports Invoke The “Phoenix Precedent”?
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The National Football League yanked the Super Bowl in 1992 from Tempe's Sun Devil Stadium because the state refused to recognize Martin Luther King Day, a holiday that was first celebrated nationally on a state-by-state basis in 1986. The Super Bowl & Arizona Politics – The New York Sun: Initially, NFL owners … Read more
The fallout begins: La Opinión Calls for National Boycott of Arizona
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: An editorial in the Los Angeles Spanish-language daily La Opinión calls for a national boycott of Arizona after the governor signed the nation's toughest bill on illegal immigration into law on Friday. The new law makes it a misdemeanor to be undocumented, and requires police to question people about their immigration status … Read more
You know you’re in trouble when Tom Tancredo says you’ve gone too far
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Holy crap! Here's one for the "things I thought I would never see" file. AZ Immigration Law Goes Too Far For Tom Tancredo: Former Congressman Tom Tancredo — the same guy who said we should send the president back to Kenya and said a Supreme Court nominee is part of the "Latino … Read more
A quarter million and counting at “1 MILLION Strong AGAINST the Arizona Immigration Law SB1070”
by David Safier The numbers keep climbing on the Facebook page, "1 MILLION Strong AGAINST the Arizona Immigration Law SB1070," from 86,000 when I joined on Saturday to over a quarter million — 259,606 at this moment — and 10 seconds later, 259,665. Another minute later, 259,947. I've got to quit reloading the page, or … Read more
