Michael Bryan By Michael Bryan I called it. When Bill Johnson was running for the Democratic nomination to Congress in CD8 in 2006, I said: "We need to call bullshit on this candidate. Bill Johnson isn't a Democratic candidate at all. He's a ploy by extremist racists to inject their hateful invective into the Democratic Primary process … Read more
By Karl Reiner In previous years, as controls along the U.S.-Mexico border were continually tightened on the east and west sides of Arizona, the state paid scant attention to the changing conditions along the border. Perhaps it was assumed that the drug transporters, human traffickers and economic refugees would ignore the logistical possibilities the state … Read more
Here is footage of the May 11th Democratic candidates forum for LD 27. There is a break about two-thirds in when I received a battery warning, which is where part 2 begins. My battery died just as the final candidate, Cruz Bustamonte, was about to give his final remarks, so his statement was not recorded.
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It has become a common slander of the right wing to charge that Clean Elections are welfare for politicians or taxpayer funded elections. It's a slander because it is simply not true. Clean Elections does not get ANY tax dollars, at all. It accepts only voluntary contributions and surcharges on criminal and civil penalties. Not … Read more