Rum, Romanism and Rebellion

One may remember reading that the Mallard, who has been touting the fact that he wants to debate “the issues,” seemed to know nothing when asked by the Tucson Weekly about one of the most contentious ballot propositions this year, Proposition 107.
Terry Krukemyer, Mallard’s campaign manager, after researching the issue, finally gave a response to […]

Rep. Russell Pearce called for mass deportations of illegal immigrants the other day. Well, that’s pretty much what we’d expect from Pearce. Bad, but Pearce is sort of like fellow Valley resident Mike Tyson. We watch every new outrage and it just doesn’t suprise us anymore.
The trouble here was that Pearce decided to use a […]

Today is Nobel Laureate and former Polish President Lech Wałęsa’s birthday. This comes only a few days after the 30th anniversary of the founding of KOR (Komitet dla Obrony Robotników), a coalition of workers and intellectuals that laid the foundations for Solidarność.

The Arizona Daily Star reported this morning that Kathleen Dunbar’s lawsuit against several citizens and the Democratic Party has been dismissed. The lawsuit has been headed in this direction for months.
For those who don’t remember, Councilmember Dunbar sued several teachers and Democratic party activists for a mailer that went out. She also threatened to sue […]

Jon Kyl, I have to admit, has run a couple of effective ads. One was the one with the various Sheriffs condemning Jim Pederson for endorsing the 1986 amnesty. It was too bad that it turned out that Pederson did no such thing, and that Kyl actually did.
By the way, where was Kyl’s […]

I never get to write about the CD 1 race. It’s been too long.
Rick Renzi has been touting the endorsement of Albert Hale. This is a big deal, given that Hale is Democratic member of the State Senate, as well as a former congressional candidate and President of the Navajo Nation.
‘Cept…he didn’t endorse Renzi.
Here’s […]

The Mallard is trumpeting an invitation to a debate with Raúl Grijalva. It’s too bad that the invitation was actually to a candidate forum and not a debate. Details!
The interesting thing about his press release was this little tidbit:
Ron Drake noted that he is looking forward to several debates with Grijalva in front of several […]

I’ve been having a great deal of trouble saving my night time posts lately; I don’t know what is up with Blogger. Last night, for example, it acted like it did not save my post on the EMILY’s list poll, then it listed three seperate saves but only displayed one post. It showed […]

Gawd, I gotta take issue with an article written by a friend of mine.
This morning, the Arizona Daily Star ran a piece critical of Jim Pederson’s claim that Jon Kyl voted to raise his pay.
The article notes that Kyl voted to raise his pay once, as a house member in 1989. But then states:
The […]

EMILY’s List released a poll today showing Gabrielle Giffords at 54% and Randy Graf at 29%. No word on Jay Quick.
The polling memo also shows that Graf has a 42% unfavorable rating, and that Giffords seems to have closed the gap on name ID. She is now known by 78% of the district’s voters compared […]

Russell Pearce and Laura Knaperak are looking to call a special legislative session to discuss tearing down the 9-11 memorial. That’s right, it just can’t wait until January.
That’s not Teen Spirit, that smells like election year politics.
Why can’t this wait until January? Oh yeah, no guarantee they will both be there.
These folks in the legislature […]

Over on Arizona 8th, they are claiming that Gabrielle Giffords is just like Steve Huffman and dodging debates.
This is, on the face of it, silly. Giffords has agreed to appear at six debates between now and the general election. By way of comparison, Giffords appeared at her first primary debate in January, and over the […]

Republican Attorney General Candidate Bill Montgomery has so far had a couple of lame-ass excuses for hiring illegal aliens to appear in his illegally-paid-for campaign ads. First, he claimed that he didn’t know who the production company hired. The “blame the contractor” argument will be familiar to anyone who has followed immigration cases involving Wal-Mart […]

Len Munsil had a press conference yesterday to highlight concerns about the new 9-11 memorial at Wesley Bolin Plaza. Munsil wants to prevent there from being “political” messages.
As a guy that used to write for an old Revs fanzine used to say, “Rumpswab.”
The monument, by the way, wasn’t hatched on the 11th floor by nefarious […]

Once in a while, even this current congress can do the right thing. Today they passed HR 5857, a bill changing the name of Tucson’s main post office to honor Morris King “Mo” Udall, the greatest legislator this state has ever produced.
The bill was authored by the man that is trying hard to be a […]

The other day in the debate between the two candidates in the Illinois 6th district, Republican Peter Roskam accused Democrat Tammy Duckworth of “cutting and running” in Iraq.
Let’s see what Roskam’s definition for “cutting and running” is:
In November of 2004, Major Ladda “Tammy” Duckworth was piloting a Blackhawk helicopter in Iraq when the chin bubble […]

One of the things y’all may not realize is that every time someone posts a comment, I get it e-mailed to me. This means that a couple of funny things can happen. I get comments that have been deleted, so I get to see those comments with all of the spelling mistakes or […]

Conservative bloggers have been gloating about the new poll reported in the Arizona Daily Star this morning that shows that Gabrielle Giffords is now leading by “only” twelve points. They are noting that this is a drop from the nineteen points that she was leading by in an internal poll released by the Giffords campaign […]

There has been a lot of piling on Senator George Allen. Poor guy.
It all started with his “macaca” comment that confirmed suspicions in some people’s minds about Allen’s racial views. But what if we were all wrong about this?
What if he meant to say “machaca“?
I realize that this would be the eight or ninth […]

So, my brilliant mind has concieved of a solution to our state’s difficulties. It splits the difference between, say, Greg Patterson and Daniel Patterson. It is simple and elegant.
We on the left are concerned about the strain on our resources from unchecked suburban sprawl. The right is concerned about the number of illegal migrants moving […]