Giffords and Pederson Get Populist Tax Politics

I’m encouraged that both Pederson and Giffords are demonstrating the importance of undermining the middle- to low-income appeal of GOP tax policy by offering populist programmes of their own. Pederson has proposed the bolder plan by recommending a revenue neutral 25% cut in payroll taxes (pdf). Now if Pederson’s IT team would just make the … Read more

Arizona Democratic Party Calls on Graf to Return Foley-Linked Money

The Democratic Party released a statement today demanding that Randy Graf return any money raised for him by Speaker Dennis Hastert, on the grounds that Hastert covered up a pedophillic sex scandal involving Florida Representative Foley for a year. "The Republican leadership has admitted that Dennis Hastert knew about Foley’s disturbing and dangerous behavior for … Read more

Jeff Latas Becomes Chairman of Sonoran Progressive Democrats of America

Jeff Latas has accepted the position of Chairman of the Sonora PDA. In recent years, southern Arizona Democrats has spawned a litter of competing, and often mutually antagonistic, progressive organizations. It is the classic pattern of American progressive politics becoming so fractious and divided by ideoogy and personality that the entire movement is mooted as … Read more