In all of my posting about the city council race, and with the other news last week, I missed the passing of Representative Edward Ross Roybal. Roybal was probably the most important political leader in the Hispanic community durring the 1950’s and 60’s. His activities didn’t attract the attention that the Dr. King’s civil rights [...]
I wrote a bit about the hay that Karin Uhlich is trying to make over Kathleen Dunbar’s threats to kill a deal with the Amphitheater school district. Interestingly, Dunbar has now retained an attorney and has threatened to sue.
Yes, that’s right, she’s threatened to sue.
Who does she want to sue?
With appologies to the Jerky Boys: [...]
Ernesto Portillo Jr.’s column last Thursday was about the unwillingness of councilmembers Kathleen Dunbar and Fred Ronstadt to appear at many campaign fora that have been scheduled by community organizations.
One little item in the column got me thinking. One of the people that was organizing the West Side forum that Neto attended was Lillian Lopez-Grant. [...]
I realized that I haven’t written anything about Fred Ronstadt in a while. Then I realized that I haven’t had anything to write about him in a while.
Is he still running? Anyone hear?
I hope he’s doing okay.
John McCain took a trip to our lovely burg yesterday to endorse Kathleen Dunbar. A Republican endorses a Republican, huge news.
Unfortunately for Dunbar, the press that showed up was obsessed with Irving Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s indictment. Dunbar was left to stand behind McCain and to try not to get confused with the flagpole.
Well, [...]
I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby has been indicted for his role in the “outing” of Valerie Plame.
This gives me a chance to ask a question that has been bugging me for a while. What sort of middle-aged man still calls himself “Scooter”?
The latest hoo-hah in our city council race here is over a mailer that Karin Uhlich has sent detailing Kathleen Dunbar’s spiking a deal between the Amphitheater School District and the Kemmerly Companies, a local developer that later merged with a national company.
The school district, the in-city portion of which is nearly entirely in Dunbar’s [...]
Evidently, Jan Smith-Florez announced for governor yesterday. Did anyone notice?
I heard a bit about it on NPR this morning. I saw nothing about it in this morning’s Arizona Republic. I checked the Star and I found out why. Evidently, Smith-Florez announced at a semi-private confab of Republicans at a restaurant in Phoenix. An odd place [...]
“Are you going to stand up?”
“No.”
“Well, by God, I’m going to have you arrested.”
“You may do that.”
Have you ever seen the cereal commercial where a supervisor tries to fire an employee, but the employee won’t leave because he can’t hear over the crunch of his cereal?
Maybe David Burnell Smith has a similar difficulty. You’d think so since, despite being ordered to vacate office on October 4th, he is still there.
Smith has [...]
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