Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Rhonda Bodfield reports in the Arizona Daily Star's Political notebook: Where are Prop. 200 backers? The backers of Proposition 200 have not been overly eager to play to potentially hostile crowds this election season. Proponents refused to debate the opposition at a recent Drinking Liberally meeting, failed to send someone to a … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The League of Women Voters is sponsoring a public forum on Monday, October 19, 2009 on the City of Tucson ballot propositions. Speakers for and against the propositions will present their cases. Here are my brief descriptions of the propositions: Prop. 400 "Home Rule Option" – seeks to allow the City of … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The mad haters of the Tucson Tea Party will be holding a little soirre Saturday to compare new and creative ways of "how to hate Barack Obama even more!" at Tucson Electric Park. So much hate, so little time. (And a desicration of a cathedral of baseball.) The teabaggers will not be … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: From The White House – Blog Post – Building a World that "Gives Life to the Promise of Our Founding Documents": In reacting to the news this morning that he had won the Nobel Peace Prize, the President struck a note of humility and recognized that the award was a nod to a … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: From ITN World: The Nobel Committee announced Friday that the annual peace prize was awarded to Barack Obama, just nine months into his presidency, “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” In Surprise, Nobel Peace Prize to Obama for Diplomacy: The award cited in particular Mr. Obama’s … Read more