Punch Clock Project
October 4, 2006
via Sunlight Network: Punch Clock Responses. If you are an employer, you want to know your employee is doing his job, not out back smoking crack, mugging some schmo, or getting jolly with a local hooker. Well, it seems that’s just about what some of our Congressmembers seem to have been up to. The Punch
Frist Calls for Talks with Taliban
October 4, 2006
Via International Herald Tribune: U.S. Senate majority leader calls for efforts to bring Taliban into Afghan government. Boy, this is going to hurt… I’m going to have to go out to the workshop, put my hand in the vise, and saw it off with a hack saw after I type this (with one hand, so
Giffords and Pederson Get Populist Tax Politics
October 4, 2006
I’m encouraged that both Pederson and Giffords are demonstrating the importance of undermining the middle- to low-income appeal of GOP tax policy by offering populist programmes of their own. Pederson has proposed the bolder plan by recommending a revenue neutral 25% cut in payroll taxes (pdf). Now if Pederson’s IT team would just make the
Reading Liberally: John W. Dean’s “Conservatives Without Conscience”
October 4, 2006
This post is a magnet for pre-meeting discussion and resources for our inaugural meeting of Reading Liberally on Wednesday Oct. 4th at 7:30 PM at Bookmans on Speedway and Wilmot. We will be discussing John W. Dean‘s "Conservatives without Conscience". First, it is recommended that you have read the book. It is available at booksellers
Arizona Democratic Party Calls on Graf to Return Foley-Linked Money
October 3, 2006
The Democratic Party released a statement today demanding that Randy Graf return any money raised for him by Speaker Dennis Hastert, on the grounds that Hastert covered up a pedophillic sex scandal involving Florida Representative Foley for a year. "The Republican leadership has admitted that Dennis Hastert knew about Foley’s disturbing and dangerous behavior for
The Heterosexual Agenda
October 3, 2006
Thought provoking study of the damage done by the hetero lifestyle: The Heterosexual Agenda: Exposing The Myths.
Jeff Latas Becomes Chairman of Sonoran Progressive Democrats of America
October 2, 2006
Jeff Latas has accepted the position of Chairman of the Sonora PDA. In recent years, southern Arizona Democrats has spawned a litter of competing, and often mutually antagonistic, progressive organizations. It is the classic pattern of American progressive politics becoming so fractious and divided by ideoogy and personality that the entire movement is mooted as
Tucson Weekly CD 8 Poll for Sept. 20th through 23rd
October 1, 2006
Link: Tucson Weekly Blog: CD 8 Poll: Giffords Leads Graf. Yet further confirmation of the stability and magnitude of Giffords’ lead over Graf. This Wick poll was taken between Sept 20th and 23rd and has an MOE of 4.3%. This Wick poll shows an 18 point lead for Giffords, at 52% to 34% with 10%
