Why am I getting a mailer that I completely agree with from the Goldwater Institute? It’s not that I never agree with conservatives (it happens on those rare occasions when they actually talk like conservatives), it’s that I wish liberals were better at choosing to advocate issues that could have significant appeal to independent voters. … Read more
Lori Oien has just taken her campaign from hopelessly out-matched to pitifully incompetent. Her attack on Rodney Glassman as a ‘enviro hypocrite‘ according to the Star’s Sunday edition, will not only fail to convert a single voter concerned with the environment, but it has very likely gifted about 5 points worth of Oien’s own base … Read more
There has been a great deal of sturm und drang from the Right about MoveOn’s ad calling General David Petraeus, General Betray Us. Of course, those same Solons haven’t condemned Rush’s claim that soldiers who oppose this stupid war are ‘phony soldiers’. And, unfortunately, those voices of hypocrisy have even been joined by the far-too-common … Read more
Those who know me know that I have tried to stay fairly neutral (note how that word shares a root with ‘neutered’…) on the Democratic Presidential Primary. I have preferences, but I’ve tried to avoid picking sides among the Democratic camps. In part, this was due to my now increasingly forlorn hope that Al Gore … Read more
Michael Goodman, the owner of NW University Equities LLC, took out a quarter page last Saturday’s Arizona Daily Star excoriating the Tucson City Council for creating an overlay district to slow the growth of mini-dorm redevelopment in the University region. He supplies a nice little cut-out form for affected owners to fill out and mail … Read more