Our Brilliant (Bought-and-Paid-For and Secret-Keeping) State Legislature
January 17, 2012
Posted by Michael Bryan As if totally deaf to the historically low regard in which Americans hold their Congress, and the Arizona State Legislature, two Arizona legislators have decided that there is not enough special interest money in our politics, and too much transparency of legislator's communications. [hat tip to Alia Rau at Political Insider.] Representatives … Read more
Dr. Word says: It is a discriminatory, open-ended book ban
January 17, 2012
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by David Safier Dr. Word has seen the arguments. TUSD banned books used in MAS classes; TUSD did not ban books used in MAS classes. He has decided the most accurate description of what has happened is this: TUSD has instituted a discriminatory, open-ended ban on the use of certain texts by certain teachers. Let … Read more
AIRC Update: We have final maps – to the DOJ!
January 17, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: As anticipated, the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission approved the final maps for congressional and legiaslative district maps at its meeting today. The Arizona Capitol Times (subscription required) reports Arizona redistricting commission OKs legislative, congressional maps: Arizona’s redistricting commission divided along party lines Tuesday as its members approved maps of new congressional and … Read more
More on the Texas Bible class bill
January 17, 2012
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by David Safier This is a quick post about some material I've found via Google in the past few minutes. The Texas Bible Course bill I mentioned below apparently requires the teaching of the Bible in public schools. That, of course, is the direction Terri Proud would like to take us using her bill, HB2563, … Read more
The Madison Revolution: Total Recall! More than one million signatures to recall Gov. Scott Walker
January 17, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
The Madison Revolution is almost a year old, and today United Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Democratic Party submitted more than one million petition signatures for the recall of Gov. Scott Walker. The Wisconsin State Journal reports Recall organizers file more than 1 million signatures to recall Walker:
Groups seeking to recall Gov. Scott Walker submitted nearly twice as many signatures Tuesday as required to force an election, an overwhelming number that may make a vote later this year inevitable.
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The 1 million signatures that United Wisconsin, the coalition that spearheaded the effort along with the Democratic Party, said were collected far exceeds the 540,208 needed and amounts to 23 percent of the state's eligible voters.
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Petitioners were also submitting about 305,000 more signatures than were needed to trigger a recall election against Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, and said they also exceeded the number needed to force recall elections of four Republican state senators, including Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald.
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The Government Accountability Board has said its review will take 60 days or more and it will go to court this week to seek more than the 31 days allowed under the law.
Tate said he didn't expect a Walker recall election would happen before May. Walker has said he thinks it will be in June.
Texas is the source of Terri Proud’s Bible class bill
January 17, 2012
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by David Safier The Texas Education Code includes the following: Sec. 28.011. ELECTIVE COURSES ON THE BIBLE'S HEBREW SCRIPTURES (OLD TESTAMENT) AND NEW TESTAMENT AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE HISTORY AND LITERATURE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION. (a) A school district may offer to students in grade nine or above: . . . The wording is nearly … Read more
Richard Carmona introduces himself to Arizona voters
January 17, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, running for U.S. Senate, introduces himself to Arizona voters in this announcement web video at http://www.carmonaforarizona.com/.
Will the ‘Birther Queen’ replace Scott Bundgaard in the Senate?
January 17, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: States' rights "nullifaction" teabagger and "Birther Queen" Rep. Judy Burges, Ahhh, the "Birther" Queen's bill dies in the Senate, is among the three individuals nominated by Tea-Publicans as potential replacements for Sen. Scott Bundgaard, who resigned this month during an ethics trial in the Senate. 3 vying to replace Bundgaard: Republican Party leaders in the … Read more
