Best headline of the day

by David Safier Phoenix New Times' Feathered Bastard has the day's best headline: Russell Pearce's Day of Bigotry, Barbarism and Triumph Steve Lemons' nom de plume, Feathered Bastard, is pretty good as well, I have to say. And this line isn't bad either. I actually read it earlier in another article about the discussion of … Read more

Pearce’s latest anti-immigrant screed passes committee

By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings After more than two hours of discussion, and by a 7 – 6 vote, the Senate Appropriations Committee has approved SB1611, Russell Pearce's latest effort to one-up last year's SB1070. The four Democrats on the committee, Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, David Schapira, Paula Aboud, and Olivia Cajero-Bedford, were joined by Republican … Read more

Some pics from the early part of the day at the Legislature

By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings The Senate Appropriations hearing is underway, and I am in the overflow room (SHR1). They haven't gotten to the "good" bills yet, but here are a few pics from earlier in the day – The targets of Russell Pearce's bills… Senate hearing room cordoned off by police, who … Read more

If this doesn’t scare the hell out of you . . .

by David Safier If you have felt the slightest bit complacent about what's going on in Arizona, two articles on the Star's front page should end that. The Star has badly mis-headed the Howard Fischer article about a whole raft of anti-immigrant legislation. Hell, let's be honest. It's anti-Hispanic legislation. It includes Pearce's Omnibus Immigration … Read more