Now, this I like
July 28, 2010
by David Safier This may be the strongest and smartest strategy the Democrats have employed this election season: going straight at the Tea Party. 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 to
The Arizona Republic endorses Penny Kotterman in Dem primary for Superintendent of Public Instruction
July 28, 2010
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
SB1070 Update: Asylum seekers could be in trouble
July 27, 2010
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
SB1070 Update: What could possibly go wrong?
July 27, 2010
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
SB1070 Update: Why haven’t Dems turned this into a slogan?
July 27, 2010
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
G.I.: More education cuts on the horizon
July 27, 2010
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
SB1070 Update: They can’t handle the [racial profiling] truth
July 27, 2010
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.
Republican Primary Mudslinging: New 2nd Favorite Website
July 27, 2010
Posted by Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings As a Democrat, I'm proud that most, if not all, of the D primary races have been run clean and on the issues. The personal and ad hominem attacks have been all but nonexistent. As a writer, I'm bored by the Democratic races. Civility and professionalism are
