Rum, Romanism and Rebellion

Rep. Raúl Grijalva will be giving a talk on the Iraq war Thursday night at the U of A. This notice has gone out on the College Republican ListServ, so we need to stack the room. The CRs do tend to bring down the average IQ.
A release from Grijalva’s office:

Rep. Grijalva to Discuss Iraq War […]

I was saddened last week to learn about the sudden death of Albert Soto. Soto was heavily involved in the life of this community, doing things ranging from helping to found the nationally recognized Borderlands Theater to pressuring TUSD to actually spend its desegregation money on, um, desegregation. He appeared annually in the Tucson Pastorela […]

Tucson Weekly reporter Jim Nintzel mentioned R-Cubed’s Jim Kolbe scoop on a special edition of Reporter’s Roundtable on last Wednesday’s Arizona Illustrated. I so rock.
Follow this link to see the video.
Of course, Jim mentioned my name, but not the URL. Hey, help a guy out, Jim.

Well, the first candidate to take the plunge since the exit of Jim Kolbe has offered up her name. 2004 Democratic Nominee Eva Bacal is on the verge of announcing that she is running. Bacal was a long time member of the Tucson Unified School District Board (serving at roughly the same time […]

So, today’s topic is romanism and rebellion. Today is the birthday of Dorothy Day. If you don’t know who she is, I found a short description of her here, complete with more than a dozen links to more sites about her and her movement.
The greatest care should be taken to give a warm reception […]

Today is the beginning of the first week of Advent, when the Church begins its Christmas season. We have already seen in recent weeks many on the right accuse us on the left of somehow trying to destroy Christmas. Seems to me though, their friends in the corporate world have far more to […]

I recieved an e-mail from Gretchen Wagenseller, a Democratic Precinct Committeeperson from the Northwest Side. She asked that I add the Friends of Farley blog on my “progressive” blogroll.
I didn’t initially add Farley because I was supporting Nina Trasoff in the primary. Since that’s over now, I guess it’s okay to add him. Since […]

The other day I refered to a Tucson Citizen article that implied that Sen. Gabrielle Giffords was planning to leave town before Jim Kolbe announced he was retiring.
As it turns out, the reporter for the Citizen was mistaken, and my refering to the article amplified the mistake.
Giffords called me a bit angry about my putting […]

For some reason, I can’t sleep. I could say it is because of my excitement over the possiblility of a race in District 8, but that would make me a total goon. Plus, it isn’t actually true. I mean the excitement part. The goon part may be true.
I thought I’d write a bit about some […]

It is fun being the guy that broke the story. They’ve got some anti-inflamatories so I can keep the swelling down.
Anyhow, some candidates have already emerged, such as they can given the resign to run law.
The Business Journal of Phoenix ran a story detailing who they think the candidates will be. Typical of Phoenix, […]

Folks, you read it here first.
Associates say Kolbe won’t seek re-election

Rep. Jim Kolbe is said to be seriously considering taking a teaching position at Harvard.
Kolbe has been serving in congress since 1985. For the most part, he has been easily re-elected in a district that started as a swing district, but is now a bit more strongly Republican.
Every two years, there has been a “this […]

There is a big hoo-hah among us lefty and leftyish bloggers about Rep. Jean Schmidt’s comments about Rep. John Murtha. Well, first of all, Schmidt didn’t really say it, she was just quoting someone, so that makes it okay.
Also, we are missing the larger point about Schmidt’s comments. We need to admire the […]

I know that many of you know this story already, but I wanted to post a bit more about it.
Back in July, two volunteers with the group No More Deaths, Daniel Strauss and Shanti Sellz, encountered three seriously ill border crossers. They gave the three of them a ride to get some help. They were […]

Fun new rumor afoot is that Kathleen Dunbar is blowing this popsicle stand and moving to Prescott, probably for an eventual run for legislature from up there.
Doesn’t she have to finish suing everyone first?
I don’t know about the veracity of this story. She and her husband apparently have some property in the area, and Prescott […]

I’ve decided that my new favorite, well second favorite, congressman is Marion “That’s with an ‘E’” Berry from Arkansas. Here is his riposte to a snotty New Model Army Republican durring the floor debate on the cuts to social spending last night:
I’m absolutely amazed at you boys over there, I wonder what you are going […]

I never watch local television news anymore. In case you are wondering why, last night’s ten o’clock edition of KVOA’s Eyewitness News is exhibit one.
The program featured a story that demonstrates two unfortunate trends in local programming. One is the need that they seem to have to use their news outlets to plug network programs. […]

I haven’t been in town for several days. I want all of you who live in Phoenix (and those that are advocating unrestrained development in Tucson) to spend a few days in Dallas and see a cautionary tale. I will never complain about Phoenix again. Well, I will, but not with the same fury.
Just before […]

I’ll be out of town for a couple of days, so please, no one make any news while I am gone.
If anything in our local political world does happen, though, you can keep up with it all in the Tucson Citizen and Arizona Daily Star, or in our local broadcast outlets. Just kidding.
Tony […]

I watched Law and Order tonight and Fred Thompson was barely in the episode. I guess all of the Republicans are in hiding.
I’ve been reading the reactions to last night’s results, particularly here in town. It amazes me that when Republicans lose, we are supposed to draw nothing from it. In 1993, when Republicans […]