I don’t know all of the rules involving congressional staff members, but I understand that they have to be very careful about getting involved in politics. For example, they cannot e-mail political (or even personal) messages on their congressional accounts. A member of congress cannot direct a member of his staff to do political work. [...]
I have only one question about last week’s hearings on Dolores Huerta’s speech: what did this accomplish?
I spoke to Rep. Jonathan Paton last week, and he went over many of the points he later made on Arizona Illustrated. Paton believes that speeches such as Huerta’s should be followed up by someone of an opposing viewpoint. [...]
The Arizona Daily Star has moved its notebook column to Saturday now. I don’t know much about the two reporters writing it, but it might be nice for them to pay a bit more attention.
For example, in this morning’s column, they complained that Jim Pederson is “never in Tucson.” Pederson has been here numerous times, [...]
My brother pointed this one out to me last night.
It seems that George Bush has learned some lessons from proto-Republican Abraham Lincoln.
When the war isn’t going well, make sure to fire McClellan.
Is this a subtle acknowledgement that there is a civil war going on?
So, what is this I hear that the Tucson City Council is going to move to an “all-male ballot”? Doesn’t that violate the 19th Ammendment?
There is a big campaign walk going out of Jim Pederson’s office this weekend. I wonder if Jon Kyl’s campaign is preparing a press release saying that this is a sign of “depseration.”
If Kyl is going to call Pederson “desperate” for doing things like running ads or, I dunno, phone banking, doing interviews or [...]
I almost missed the best part of John Munger’s appearance on Arizona Illustrated. At one point, Munger was talking about what a brilliant job we are doing in Iraq, and instead of saying “Iraq,” he said “Viet-Nam.”
And I’m not even making that up.
On last night’s Arizona Illustrated, Republican Pooh-Bah John Munger spoke about the candidacy of Jim Pederson. When Pima County Democratic Party Chairman Donna Branch-Gilby brought up that Pederson is rich, but a self-made rich man, Munger said “I have a problem with that…” Munger proceded to complain about wealthy people running for the United States [...]
Years ago, I read a book called The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete and Unexpurgated Text, edited by a fellow named Harold Holzer. Holzer used Democratic transcripts of Abraham Lincoln’s speeches, and Republican transcripts of Stephen Douglas’s speeches, believing that a candidate’s opponents would give a “warts and all” version of the speeches.
One thing [...]
Local music demigod Al Perry, upon hearing that the legislature is not only trying to get rid of clean elections, but trying to roll back campaign finance laws to pre-1988 standards:
You know, it’s a new f***ing outrage every day. After a year, that’s 365 f***ing outrages.
By the way, Al was totally unengaged with politics [...]
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