Entries from April 2006

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

March of the 10,000

Okay, I don’t actually know if it was 10,000. A buddy of mine said that he thought at the very least 5,000; but my brother claimed it was 10,000. If you really wanted to know, you should have been there.
I hooked up with some folks from SEIU and walked with them. The line of folks […]

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

Legislative Records

A corresponent asked where one can find Sen. Gabrielle Giffords’s voting record. This can be found on ALIS, which is not a 70’s TV series staring Linda Lavin, but the Arizona Legislature’s website.
The trouble is having to manuever through a list of hundreds of bills (way too many are introduced), but you can do […]

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

Musical Chairs at the Capitol

Sen. Harry Mitchell’s stepping down from his State Senate seat didn’t just create a vacancy in his Senate seat, but it also created a vacancy in the Democratic party leadership.
Sen. Richard Miranda has moved into Mitchell’s old seat as Assistant Minority Leader, and Sen. Jorge Luis Garcia has moved into Miranda’s old seat as Minority […]

Saturday, April 1st, 2006

Mightier Than All the Hosts of Error

I’m in the middle of reading A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan by Michael Kazin. Without Bryan, the coaltion that elected Woodrow Wilson and later Franklin Roosevelt would have been unimaginable. Unfortunately, his image among liberals is colored by his involvement in the Scopes trial. Even during his life, some on […]

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