Michael Bryan by Jenn This one image is apparently enough to cause some Arizonans to scream racial slurs at elementary school children. SB1070: Arizona's anti-immigration law that, in essence, legalizes racial profiling of non-White Arizonans. HB 2281: a law that bans ethnic studies programs in Arizona's public schools, and that was designed to specifically target a Tucson … Read more
By Michael Bryan John Munger recently dropped out of the GOP nomination race for Governor. His slogan was "Real Leadership. No Excuses." It was on his website, his lit, his media, his billboards. You get the idea that maybe he means it. And yet when he decides to throw in the towel, he puts this … Read more
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