(Video) YOUNG GUNS II: The Return of Coupon Care
March 21, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Check out the latest web video from Americans United on the "Ryan 2.0" budget plan and the GOP assault on Medicare below the fold.
AIRC Update: Tea-Publicans threatening to sue over district maps
March 21, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: House Speaker Andy Tobin and his aide John Mills, who together drafted GOP-friendly maps in secret without any public input (or even from his own Caucus), and who wanted to send a repeal of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission (AIRC) to a special election ballot — that effort failed — now wants … Read more
A setback in the GOP war on workers
March 21, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The plan by Governor Jan Brewer aka Boss Tweed to destroy the civil service merit selection sytem and return to the halcion days of the spoils system and political patronage moved one step forward on Tuesday. Brewer's personnel reform plan moves forward: Gov. Jan Brewer's plan for a massive overhaul of the state's … Read more
A small victory in the GOP war on workers
March 21, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: A small victory in the GOP war on workers yesterday. House Majority Leader Steve Court said Tuesday he has pulled the plug on his proposal to ask voters to repeal the state's minimum wage. Minimum-wage repeal dropped by lawmaker: The Mesa Republican noted that the change would require voter approval in November. … Read more
CD 2 Update: Aboud in (for now), Walden out
March 21, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: More fallout from Ron Barber's decision to run for a full term in Congressional District 2 this fall. Sen Paula Aboud (D-LD 28) says she is still running for Congress. The Arizona Capitol Times (subscription required) says "Aboud wouldn’t say whether she’ll drop out of the race if Barber wins the special … Read more
Stegeman and Pedicone: on the wrong side of history
March 20, 2012
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by David Safier
I could write thousands of words about Tom Horne and John Huppenthal and their crusade to deny TUSD students the right to participate in the successful and nationally respected Mexican American Studies program. But why bother? Their anti-Hispanic political agenda is too obvious to need much more discussion. TUSD Board President Mark Stegeman and Superintendent John Pedicone, on the other hand, are in a different category. Unlike Horne and Huppenthal, they are basically decent, intelligent people who aren't trying to use the MAS controversy to advance their careers. But to their great discredit, they have chosen to be on the wrong side of history.
The fights over Civil Rights in the 50s and 60s were far more vicious than Tucson's battles over Mexican American Studies. But if I were to compare the two struggles, I would not compare Stegeman and Pedicone to Orval Faubus, who called out the Arkansas National Guard to try and stop Little Rock's Central High School from being integregated, or George Wallace, who blocked the door at the University of Alabama to stop two black students from entering. No, the Hornes and Huppenthals and Russell Pearces are the Faubuses and Wallaces of present day Arizona.
Stegeman and Pedicone are the enablers, the people who should know better but make it possible for the truly vile politicians in this state to carry out their racist, politically charged agendas.
The new “Nation at Risk” report
March 20, 2012
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by David Safier A task force headed by Condi "Smoking gun into a mushroom cloud" Rice (so much for her credibility) and ex-New York school system chancellor Joel Klein has decided to use 9/11 langugage to up the ante on their conservative "education reform" agenda. "The dominant power of the 21st century will depend on … Read more
Terri Proud on abortion
March 20, 2012
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by David Safier Here's a statement Terri Proud made about abortion in an email to a constituent. "Personally I'd like to make a law that mandates a woman watch an abortion being performed prior to having a "surgical procedure". If it's not a life it shouldn't matter, if it doesn't harm a woman then she … Read more
