20 Questions with Mike Cacciopoli, Democrat for Congress in Arizona’s CD 1
September 3, 2006
Mike Cacciopoli is running for Congress. He’s one of five Democrats competing for the nomination to face off with Dick Renzi, the Republican incumbent in November. I interviewed Mike via a email with a series of key questions. There were no follow up questions. If you have follow-up or additional questions, please leave a comment
Pre-Primary FEC Filings for CD 8 Candidates
September 2, 2006
DEMOCRATS: Gabby Giffords: Leading the pack in fundraising again is Gabby Giffords, who raked in an additional $270K over the last two months. That pops the 1 million mark for Gabby, giving her a total $1.113 million raised for the race, and $334K cash on hand as of 8/23/06. Gabby raised most her money, $237K,
Another CD 8 Candidate Forum
September 1, 2006
KVOA News 4 asked each of the Democratic Candidates what they thought the #1 issue was. Many of the answers staked out familiar territory and conformed pretty closely to the crosstabs of every poll on the race I’ve seen: Iraq (Rodriguez), Healthcare (Weiss), Immigration (Johnson). Every candidate had their own issue they were trying to
20 Questions with Susan Friedman, Democrat for Congress in Arizona’s CD 1
September 1, 2006
Susan Friedman is running for Congress. She is seeking the Democratic nomination in Congressional District 1 to square off with incumbent Republican Dick Renzi in November. The following biography was provided by the Friedman campaign. I interviewed Susan via email with a questionaire than included 20 key questions. No follow up questions were asked. If
Blowing the Whistle on Lockheed Coast Guard Contracting
August 31, 2006
Another tragic example of how the fascist impulse of the GOP is fostering and covering up incompentence and corruption in government operations. We are all put at risk when the whole government seems all too willing to pull together to cover each other’s asses, but not those of our service men and women putting their
Nuclear Energy Forum, Sat. Sept. 2nd, 2pm
August 30, 2006
Nuclear Power: An Economic Threat to the United States What: A Talk on the costs of nuclear power by Russell Lowes at the Common Sense Forum. When: Saturday, September 2, 2006 – The talk begins at 2 p.m. Refreshments with coffee (made with CAP Ambassador Blend) and society available at 1:30 PM, forum from 2:00
Drinking Liberally 8/31
August 30, 2006
It’s time for Liberals to Drink at The Shanty, on 4th Ave. and 9th St., in downtown Tucson, starting a 6pm. This week our Special Guest is Congressonal Candidate for CD 8 Jeff Latas. Jeff will be joining us about 8pm due to other commitments. Our new book club, Reading Liberally will be meeting, Wednesday,
Pederson Closing on Kyl
August 29, 2006
The WSJ.com reports that Pederson (44.2%) is now well within margin of error (+/- 3.7% at 95% confidence) of Kyl (48.3%) and the trend of polling is clearly continuing to close the gap. That result means that Pederson could well be in the lead, though it is certainly more likely that Kyl retains a few
