The Daily Show in Tucson this week for an episode on ‘Baja Arizona’

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Paul Eckerstrom, co-chair of Start Our State, i.e., the Baja Arizona as the 51st state movement, was the guest speaker at a meeting of the Saguaro Eastside Democrats on Monday night. Eckerstrom announced that The Daily Show would be in Tucson Wednesday and Thursday of this week to film an episode on Baja Arizona for The Daily Show.

Eckerstrom did not disclose whom the correspondents are from The Daily Show coming to Baja Arizona.

Arizona has been a target rich comedy environment for The Daily Show because of our lunatic fringe Tea-Publican legislature and governor. The Daily Show has even created an "Arizona" tag for all of its video episodes mentioning Arizona. Videos Tagged "Arizona" | The Daily Show with Jon Stewart | Comedy Central.

So let's be on our best behavior people. Let's be clear that "the crazy" comes from our bullying neighbor to the north, the state of Maricopa. It is the Tea-Publicans who voted for the long discredited pre-Civil War theories of nullification of federal laws and secession from the United States.

Baja Arizona wanted no part of this. Baja Arizonans are loyal Americans. Baja Arizona is following the example of West Virginia in the Civil War and is exercising its constitutional prerogative under Article IV, Section 3 of the United States Constitution for the legal process of partition and separation from the state of Arizona:

"New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress" (emphasis added).

The non-binding resolution that Start Our State wants to put on the ballot in 2012 is simply a petition to the Arizona legislature and the Congress for consent to establish our own state. It is our way of saying that we have had enough of "the crazy" from our bullying neighbor to the north, the state of Maricopa.

Reminder: Blog for Arizona is running a contest for you to design the new flag of the state of Baja Arizona (or whatever state name is chosen). Flying Our Freak Flag – Blog For Arizona:

We thought it might be fun to ask BlogFor(Baja&Alto)Arizona.com readers to help design our new State Flag. . .

Please submit your designs, or design ideas (we don't expect everyone to be a graphic designer) to BlogForArizona@gmail.com with the subject line 'FLAG CONTEST' (or something reasonably similar) by June 1st, 2011 and our staff, in consultation with the leaders of the Start Our State movement, will select a winner. . .

Here are some resources to get you started and help you make your design not suck: NAVA (the North American Vexillological Association) has a good site on flag design; Design My Own Flag has a nifty online doodad for making mockup flags; and, of course, Wikipedia has a nice entry on vexillology. Get designing!

See the "Baja Arizona Flag Contest" box on the right-side of the blog page.