Rum, Romanism and Rebellion

Former Avondale Mayor Ron Drake is now touting a “guest worker” program. He assures us that it is much better than Raúl Grijalva’s plan.
What makes it better?
Well, he’s not done with it yet, and doesn’t have details. He doesn’t know how it’s better yet, or even where Grijalva’s plan is deficient. His is just […]

“Slim” noted that I failed to mention anything about Rep. David Burnell Smith. I really meant to, but the entry was just getting too long. Even I have to cut down a little bit once in a while.
The good news that Slim wanted me to write about was there was yet another ruling saying that […]

There were plenty of things for me to write about that went on in the legislature this week, but I neglected to write about any of them. I don’t really have a good reason for that. I was planning on making a reason up. I don’t feel like it though.
One debating tactic that I found […]

Late last month, Patty Weiss went about legally changing her name to Patricia Gelenberg Weiss. I don’t think she needs any fancy polling to tell her that fewer people know her as Patricia Bryers Gelenberg than by her nom de guerre.
This isn’t unprecedented, by the way, I don’t think anyone would have voted for […]

The “Gandhi of the Balkans,” Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova, has died of lung cancer at the age of 61.
When the Serbian-dominated Yugoslav government stripped Kosovo of its autonomy, Rugova led an effort to form an independent Kosovar society, complete with it’s own schools and government institutions, to peacefully resist Slobodan Milošević’s regime.
Rugova was later elected […]

Dr. Richard Carmona made a barely noticed announcement on Tuesday that he will not be running for congress. Most people had already assumed that he was not going to make a go of it.
Why no story about it on here? Well, I could say that I just didn’t want to scoop C. J. Karamargin and […]

This is from R-Cubed’s Kansas Settlement bureau. The Border Patrol saw a guy driving a small truck containing several large bags, stopping at various houses in along Ft. Grant Road, between Willcox and the Graham County line.
Our boys in green got suspicious and pulled the guy over and detained him for twenty minutes.
Despite their rigorous […]

Colorado Representative Tomás Tancredo is in town today to raise money for Randy Graf. I haven’t heard of any sort of demonstrations against him. It is probably because it may be more worthwhile to let the guy’s own words work against him.
Here’s something interesting the guy said once, well, not interesting, but revealing:
Brazil is a […]

Patty Weiss, although not a declared candidate yet, is apparently assembling a staff. As mentioned before, Frank Costanzo, formerly of the Howard Dean campaign, is on board. Dean’s campaign in Arizona was impressive, but collapsed when the national campaign went downhill. Costanzo also worked for Paul Babbitt’s unsuccessful 2004 campaign. To be fair to Costanzo […]

Report in the New York Times this morning says that FBI agents complained that the data gathered from the NSA wire-tapping program yielded little useful information and may have ensnared innocent people.
One interesting ‘graf from the article:
“The information was so thin,” [one senior prosecutor] said, “and the connections were so remote, that they never led […]

Avondale Mayor Ron Drake only announced a couple of weeks ago that he will be running for the Republican nomination for Congress. However, he had been talking about it for months before that.
So, you’d think he’d be ready to answer a few questions, right?
Not so.
Shortly after his announcement, C. J. Karamargin asked him about his […]

Many of us leftish types think that if Randy Graf is nominated, the election would naturally belong to the Democratic nominee.
Graf cut a very conservative figure in the state house, and I believe is far to the right of most voters in Southeastern Arizona. But, will the Graf the candidate be the cartoon character that […]

So, where is the moderate Republican candidate to run against Randy Graf? Ray Carroll announced he is out, and Rep. Jonathan Paton has military obligations. What about the rest of y’all?
By the way, Carroll gave “family reasons” to opt out. This is one of those rare times in political history where that excuse […]

During the Senate confirmation hearings on Judge Samuel Alito, the subject of his membership in a group called Concerned Alumni of Princeton was brought up, then quickly pooh-poohed by Republican Senators and the Conservative media. Apparently, membership in a racist organization is okay. Unless it was sixty years ago and your name is Robert Byrd.
Alito’s […]

Is it okay for me to write nice things about a Republican? Gawd. Maybe there is something wrong with me. Maybe I need some meds. You know, the really good ones.
I wrote before about Corporation Commissioner Kris Mayes and her doubts about Arizona Public Service’s request for a 14% “emergency” rate increase. Mayes has now […]

So, I noticed that a week old post on Patty Weiss was still generating responses, thrity-six of them. Mostly, it was a place for those of you that are supporting the various candidates to make your case for them. I understand this. But, now that post is quietly slipping off of the bottom of the […]

So, today Sen. Bill Brotherton had an ammendment in front of the Senate to ask that companies recieving a tuition tax credit prove that they are hiring workers legally.
So, of course, these Republicans that are so eager to talk to tough about illegal immigration fell all over themselves to support the bill.
Not really.
In fact, none […]

The first few bills have passed the House. You will all be happy to know that the legislature has made it their first priority to make sure that bills that were vetoed last session will be sent to the Governor in the same form this session, so they can get vetoed again.
These guys have noticed […]

I attended a meeting of the Pima County Board of Supervisors this morning. The biggest item that was being discussed was whether or not to place the selling of bonds for Kino Hospital on the ballot.
$54 Million in bonds will be on the ballot in May. $18 Million will go to expanding the emergency room, […]