Rum, Romanism and Rebellion

I am so jealous.
See, for the past couple of decades, Arizona has had some screwball politics. Lately, not so much. In some ways it’s a good thing. Better to debate actual policy than whether or not the Governor wants the word “pickaniny” in public school text books, I say.
Now, everyone else seems to get the […]

I recieved an e-mail saying that Republicans are trying to recruit former State Rep. Jim Carruthers to run as a write-in in the place of Rep. Russ Jones. I’m dubious about this, since Carruthers was a moderate and I find it hard to believe that Republicans would recruit a moderate given their mood these days. […]

There has been a great deal of criticism of Rip Wilson’s donation to Gabrielle Giffords. Yeah, I’ll admit, I don’t like most of his clients. I don’t like the fact that this guy lobbies for Clear Channel Outdoor, but I’ve actually lobbied Giffords on billboard issues and I can’t think of a time […]

Len Munsil’s campaign blog blames Janet Napolitano and Terry Goddard for the two (or, Munsil notes, “at least two” since it sounds like more) serial killers on the loose in the Phoenix area. He claims that Arizona has been “#1 in crime” the entire time the two of them have been in office.
Of course, he […]

Well, looks like wanna be Senate Candidate Russ Jones is off of the ballot after all. Attorneys for the Democratic Party were able to prove that Jones had not told the truth when he had said that he had personally circulated petitions. Word to volunteers: this is why campaign people always bug you to sign […]

Last week, Gabrielle Giffords’s campaign responded to Patty Weiss’s campaign with a statement from a former Executive Director of the Clean Elections Institute:
Giffords’ strong record in support of campaign finance reform and financial transparency is well-known in Arizona. The Giffords campaign today released a letter from the former Executive Director of the Clean Elections Institute, […]

Okay…I took pictures at the minimum wage rally at the IBEW hall yesterday. This is one of the better pictures I got, because, as Supervisor Richard Elias said, I was standing in the back with the “sweaty people.”
Of course, sweaty people is what this was all about: people that dig our ditches, change our bed […]

Greg Patterson over at Espresso Pundit found a story on a website called American Chronicle. First off, the article claims that Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s rather unsuccessful illegal alien round up didn’t work because of interference from the Mexican Consulate. It couldn’t be because the whole thing is driven more by publicity than actual law enforcement, […]

Former Dr. Drew sidekick Adam Carolla seems to have found the right way to handle Ann Coulter. Click here, does contain some foul language.
NB - Adam “apologized” later. Scroll down to “Ann Coulter Fallout.”

I was glad to see that some of our state’s media have picked up on the Jon Kyl Supreme Court story.
Well, now the Arizona Democratic Party has an online petition demanding that Kyl apologize for inserting a phony colloquy between him and Sen. Lindsey Graham, and then trying to use that as evidence before the […]

So, I was watching the World Cup Final over at a bar on 6th St. Needless to say, the bar was quite, shall we say, sectarian. It wasn’t quite a Glasgow Old Firm Derby, but emotions were running high, and the place was definitely split between the Azzurri (The Blues) and Les Bleus […]

Those of you that have been watching the World Cup on Univision may have noticed an ad running called “Es Tu Equipo.” You can check out the ad here, and a second ad is here.
The idea of this ad is to speak to new Hispanic citizens who don’t yet necessarily have a party affiliation […]

Sen. Joe Biden was caught saying something incredibly stupid and offensive on a broadcast of Road to the White House:
I’ve had a great relationship. In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m […]

Say what you will about Jim Pederson’s candidacy, but it has brought out a heretofore unseen brand of populism out in Arizona Republicans.
One may remember that last year, Pederson was involved in what turned out to be a minor dispute with the Carpenters Union and Republican Party Chairman Matt Salmon jumped on that one, claiming […]

It’s been noted on a few blogs that in J. D. Hayworth’s Whatever It Takes, he names Henry Ford’s “Americanization” proposal as part of the inspiration for his views on immigration. There are two examples in his book of this:
Henry Ford, a leader in [the Americanization] movement, said, “These men of many nations must be […]

Ann Coulter, your friend and mine, is in a bit of trouble. She has been caught lifting several passages from her last book from a number of sources without attribution.
Pobrecita Ann!
She apparently cribbed from papers like the San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times, and also from her friends at the Heritage Foundation.
This story […]

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the […]

So, I walk into Democratic headquarters the other day, and I saw this button that said “Spitzer-Paterson 2006.” I was a bit preturbed, I mean, why would we have buttons for Marc Spitzer and Greg Patterson? In my haste to be angry and everything, I didn’t stop to think that there would be no “ticket” […]

We may be witnessing a watershed election in Southern Arizona. What is that? For the first time in twenty four years we will have an all Democratic delegation? Will Lena Seradnik be the first Democrat elected out of the Northwest side since Reed Ewing? Will our local papers actually cover the election?
That may happen, but […]

Mo Udall, who I don’t quote enough, noted in Too Funny to Be President that the right of a member of the House or Senate to retroactively “revise and extend” his or her remarks means that they really give three speeches: the one they wanted to give, the one they gave, and the one they […]