A reader took issue with my post about a UFCW ad that was scheduled to run in the Yuma Daily Sun. The reader said that the ad did in fact run. I called the UFCW to see what may have caused the confusion. The ad was supposed to run on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The [...]
Raúl Grijalva’s office today announced that he will be making a visit to Tucson’s Veteran’s Hospital on Monday. How long before Jack Harper claims that Grijalva saw and ignored problems at the State Veteran’s home 120 miles away? I mean, it isn’t any sillier than other claims he’s been pushing.
UFCW leaders are suspicious after an ad critical of Food City that they tried to run in the Yuma Daily Sun was spiked. The ad was scheduled to run this weekend to coincide with César Chávez’s birthday. You can see it here. UFCW leaders have some ideas about what happened. This is from a UFCW [...]
A united Democratic caucus yesterday managed to defeat three of Russell Pearce’s anti-immigrant bills. The Republicans were missing a few members, and the Democratic members stayed together on the votes. The best part is, because of the way the vote came down, reconsideration is unlikely. Pearce and other supporters of the bills would have to [...]
Since the new regime has taken over the state Republican Party, Randy Pullen and Brett Mecum have put out several doozies of press releases. One may remember that Pullen had a finger wagging release that warned Janet Napolitano not to support a funding cut for the troops, even though she had already come out against [...]
Like many capitol watchers, I have a question: is Jack Harper the least bit interested in doing anything about problems at the State Veteran’s Home, or does he just see this as a way to throw partisan darts? Today’s hearing of the joint committee looking into troubles at the home featured testimony of Alan Stephens, the [...]
The House has passed SB1157, which sets the state tax deadline to correspond to the federal tax deadline. The bill passed with an “emergency clause” that allows it to become law immediately when the governor signs the bill, which she is expected to do. The bill was demanded by the accounting industry as well as [...]
One of the things that always is hard for us who are involved in politics is criticizing an otherwise popular position. We always want to respect the people’s will, but how do you tell the majority of people that they are wrong or just don’t get the details of a certain issue without insulting their [...]
For some reason, John McCain chose today of all days announce that he has selected a National Finance Co-Chair for his campaign. The name he announced was Fred Malek. For those who don’t know, Malek was the one who Richard Nixon assigned to find out exactly how many Jews were working in the Bureau of [...]
We here at R-Cubed would like to note the passing of long time South Side Representative Carmen Cajero. Cajero first was appointed to the legislature in 1973 after her husband, Rep. Bernardo “Nayo” Cajero, died. She was elected in her own right, and served until she decided not to run in 1996. She is best [...]
