Panic Mode
October 7, 2006
Via CQPolitics.com: NRCC Spends Nearly $8 Million in One Day on Tight Races. In Arizona’s 5th District Republican Rep. J.D. Hayworth gets $240K with which to bash the hell out of Democratic state Sen. Harry Mitchell. That little piggie went to market. In Arizona’s 8th District Republican bete noir Randy Graf got $0 to beat
Losing the Freedom to Form Unions
October 7, 2006
Via Stateside Dispatch: "The National Labor Relations Board ruled this week that a range of professionals, estimated at 8 million workers, are now deemed "supervisors" and thus lose all protections under labor law. What this means is that an estimated 8 million workers who say a positive thing about unions can be fired at will
Ninth Cicuit Enjoins Use of Prop 200 in 2006 General Election
October 6, 2006
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an inlocutory injuntion on the use of ID standards mandated by 2004’s Prop 200 in the 2006 general election and for voter registration until close of registration on Oct. 7th. The stay is temporary until the substantive question of the appeal, whether Prop 200 violates federal election laws,
Graf – Giffords Race Narrowing?
October 6, 2006
Link: RealClearPolitics – Polls. The latest Zogby-Reuters poll is showing a narrowing gap (8 points) between Graf and Giffords. Graf basically hasn’t moved at 37%, but the poll is reading a drop off in support for Giffords to 45% and concominant increase in undecided voters to 16% The poll was taken between 9/25 and 10/2
Not Friends of Steve Farley
October 6, 2006
Link: www.explorernews.com. Steve Farley, Democratic nominee for State House in LD 28, former Tucson city council candidate, and public transportation activist, has been catching some flak from the red end of the media spectrum for some of his remarks about some of the GOP nominees for state lege in southern Arizona. Farley laid down some
Right Roots Disses Graf
October 6, 2006
Link: Right Roots by ABCPac.com. The RNC has left Graf off a list of their ‘rising star’ candidates supported by their new national ABCPAC. One of the hottest races in the nation was just written off yet again by the GOP. If I were Randy, I’d be feeling a little unloved…
Drinking Liberally 10/5
October 4, 2006
This week at Drinking Liberally, (Thursday, Oct. 5th, starting at 6pm at The Shanty on 4th Ave and 9th Str at the underpass) our special guest is Dr. Tom Volgy, former Mayor of Tucson and former Democratic candidate for Congress. Dr. Volgy is also a professor of political science with specialty in international affairs at
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
