Can Tim Bee Amass a Campaign War Chest Without Declaring His Candidacy?
Tim Bee is being very cagey and playing a delicate game by refusing to resign his Arizona Senate seat even as he admittedly raises significant funding for a race against Gabby Giffords for Arizona’s CD8 Congressional seat. Bee is arguably on safe legal ground under state law, but the office he seeks is governed by … Read more
Jan Brewer’s Unseemly Glee
The US District Court for Arizona handed down an order of partial summary judgement in the big Prop200 election rights case, Gonzales v. Arizona, and Secretary of State Jan Brewer reacted as if she had just parted the Red Sea. Her press release crowed: “I am extremely happy to have earned this sweeping court victory … Read more
Call for Volunteers to Help with Voter Registration
Linda Brown from Azadvocacy.org needs volunteers! 30,000 voter registration forms bounced by the counties. Terry Goddard says they need to prove citizenship. Though there is no evidence that fraudulent voting has ever happened, the GOP has used this red herring to create an additional hurdle that people who wish to exercise their right to vote … Read more
Tonight’s Lunar Eclipse
In the wee overnight hours tonight, the earth’s shadow will pass across the moon. Below is a chart that will help people in any the Mountain time zone know when to step outside (or set the alarm) and take in the spectacle.
Why is Bush Twice as Popular as Congress?
Why is the Democratic Congress so terribly unpopular with voters? Congressional approval ratings are at a historical low of 18%. I don’t believe that it is because the Democratic Congress is working to improve wages, protecting workers’ right to unionize, improving children’s access to health care, fostering alternative energy and energy independence, enacting the 9/11 … Read more
Biden’s Cathedral
This is the strongest ad running in Iowa today in my estimation. I don’t think that it is enough to overcome Biden’s mis-steps and launch him into the first tier, but it is the sort of resonant, serious, and moving messaging on Iraq that Democrats should be doing. Hopefully, it may help focus Democrats on … Read more
Bush Sinks the SCHIP
President Bush has chosen political ideology and the corporate health insurance industry over the health and well-being of America’s most needy and vulnerable people, our children. In a stealthy and cowardly move to avoid the news cycle, at 7:30 PM last Friday the Bush Administration sent states new restrictions for the State Children’s Health Insurance … Read more
