Hangin’ with Mr. 28%
July 23, 2008
A sharp eyed Giffords supporter noted that the Vail Sun ran a photo of Bee and Bush together at the big fundraiser which seems to escaped the media blackout. Children: every politician’s weakness…
Dr. Word Asks: Can You Be Black and Blue Collar?
July 22, 2008
by David Safier In the media, the term “Blue Collar Voters” is both a euphemism and a code term for “White Working Class Voters,” and its use harms the political dialogue and has ugly racist overtones. Political campaigns use terms like this to spin the voters all the time, but here, as happens all too
iMadork
July 21, 2008
I just got an iPhone. I’m posting this by jabbing madly at a little screen, even though I am sitting at a perfectly good computer. And have paid an absurd amount of money to do it. Jobs is a genius, and I am a dork.
New Developments on the RTA Election Front
July 21, 2008
by David Safier If you’re an election integrity fan, here’s a new development in the ongoing battle to resolve the questions surrounding the contested 2006 RTA election. Bill Risner working with Audit AZ has sent a long, heavily documented letter to Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard. It demands that Goddard open a criminal investigation into
Pay Students to Dig Out the Bufflegrass
July 20, 2008
by David Safier (TASL) If you don’t know about the threat of buffelgrass to Tucson’s desert ecosystem, you need to educate yourself. Jim Kiser has an excellent op ed in today’s Star, a group of scientists and politicians put together an eye-opening 10 minute video and the Bufflegrass Information Center website is filled with information.
$1.6 Million in TUSD Items Missing? You Read It Here First
July 20, 2008
by David Safier In just one year, TUSD lost items that cost $1.6M. That’s the headline of a front page story in The Star by Rhonda Bodfield and Enrich Volante. I can guarantee this is the first time the story has appeared in a Tucson newspaper. But if you read my May 16 post, Nearly
Subscription Cancelled
July 19, 2008
by David Safier If you, like me, are a New Yorker subscriber who is furious about their Obamas-as-Muslim-terrorists satirical cover misfire, you might want to do something about it. Here’s what I’m doing. I’m sending the cover to the New Yorker’s Letters to the Editor section. I figure this is enough of a message to
Bush Should Just Put Taxpayer Money in Bee’s Warchest
July 18, 2008
There has been much clamor over Bush’s visit to Tucson to host a fund-raiser for Senator Bee’s Congressional bid. Most commentary on the blogs has focused on Bee’s political tone-deafness in associating so closely with a deeply divisive and unpopular President, with Bush’s secretiveness during the visit, and about how the disruption and inconvenience caused
