Poking around on these here internets, I ran across an article in the Tucson Weekly from over ten years ago entitled “Withered Crop”. (The article originally appeared in the New Times.)
Amy Silverman talks at length about the folks that ran the state party at the time (interestingly for those of us who were in the thick […]
I was talking to a Barack Obama booster the other day, and he noted that if he had been struck as a Hillary Clinton delegate, he’d be ticked off given how many folks who got left on their list couldn’t be bothered to actually show up to run.
I was taken aback by a couple of names they […]
The four schools that were on the chopping block were granted a reprieve last night. In the end, the only school that any Tucson Unified School District board members attempted to close was Wrightstown. That attempt failed on a 2 -3 vote; the votes in support of closure were Bruce Burke and board president Alex Rodriguez.
Observers wondered if it was […]
Over on Random Musings, they issued me a sort of challenge:
There is an as-yet-unconfirmed rumor that one of the Clinton superdelegates may challenge the election of [Charlene]Fernandez. I’ll look into this, but if anything comes of it, Tedski [That’s me!] will probably have the scoop first.
Well, I poked around, and I was forwarded this:
To: Members, Bylaws Committee
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The otherwise level headed Greg Patterson has a post up on Espresso Pundit defending Karen Johnson. Patterson at least admits that the Republic labeling her an “ultraconservative” may be justified (ya think?), but then makes the ridiculous assertion that her views are echoed at Republican and Democratic district club meetings.
What sort of Democratic district club […]
I caught this post by David Safier over on Blog for Arizona about the impending school closings in TUSD. Heck, more than impending, they plan to vote on them tonight.
Safier underestimates the firepower behind the effort to keep Ochoa open. Because of its location, former Supervisor Dan Eckstrom and his brother Art Eckstrom not only […]
Three, yes three, seperate people wrote me in response to this morning’s post on the generation gap in voting on prop. 107 back in 2006. That was the last attempt to outlaw gay marriage (actually, it would have had hardly any effect on the already illegal instituition of gay marriage, but would have had a […]
The other day, I gave y’all the gory details of the arguments given to the Bond Committee in defense of Rillito Downs Racetrack as a case study in how not to make a decent argument.
Here’s another one from Saturday’s State Party Meeting in Phoenix. The lesson: have a vague idea who the heck you are […]
In a totally unexpected encounter at the gym yesterday, I ran across Richard Kimball. Kimball is a former member of the Corporation Commission that was the Democratic nominee for United States Senate back in 1986. He was beaten by, um, hmm…whatever happened to that guy that beat him?
Anyway, after retiring from elective politics, Kimball ran […]
Sam George, one of our Corporation Commission candidates, made the rounds at the State Democratic Party meeting Saturday. I neglected to ask him if he was the same Sam George who started ten games for the New England Revolution in 1997 and scored one goal before being traded to the Tampa Bay Mutiny for Ivan McKinley (or […]
There has been a bit of a scramble on the part of local Democrats to find a candidate to run for State Senate in District 26 after Charlene Pesquiera’s withdrawl. It appears that they have settled on one: local consultant Cheryl Cage.
I first met Cage when she was part of an informal group of Wesley […]
For those of you following the latest hoopla regarding outlawing gay marriage in our great state (shh…don’t tell them it’s already illegal), I ran across an interesting set of statistics.
You can still find some exit poll numbers for 2006’s failed Protect Marriage Arizona effort at CNN’s website. We Grand Canyon State liberals love to point […]
There were two hububs at yesterday’s State Democratic Convention. One was over a definition of who actually could vote on national convention delegates. Chairman Don Bivens explained the situation and it seemed to be resolved. The worry was that the statewide delegates would not be seated due to a technicality. Now, the DNC wouldn’t do that, would they?
The […]
My vote for Vice Chair is obviously committed. But, my vote for the various delegates at today’s meeting is still up for grabs.
My vote will go to whoever works the phrase “$240 worth of pudding” into their stump speech.
Here’s some unsolicited advice for y’all if you are not trying to construct a coherent argument:
Claim that soccer is a sport of rich kids while making arguments on behalf of horse racing.
When you realize that that argument isn’t working, switch to the argument that the local soccer community is not interested in coaching poor kids. […]
As many of you know, I sit on the Pima County Bond Committee. You are no doubt aware of the hubub regarding Rillito Downs race track.
Former Pima County Supervisor Ed Moore is threatening to sue. Long time Pima County residents will remember bumper stickers that appeared in the late 1980’s that said “I’ve been sued […]
Yeah, Greg, clever to point out that New York’s Spitzer-Paterson ticket of 2006 is almost like you and your friend Marc Spitzer. Clever, clever…’cept I wrote about this almost two years ago.
You have to wake up pretty early…
When I was working at KAMP, we had a couple of hipper-than-thous who would always try to out do you on the latest bands. You’d come in with some CD you had bought and say, “Hey, I just found these guys, and they are great.” Sure enough, some jackass with a Descendants tee-shirt would come back […]
Slowly (too slowly, but what can you do?) some national news outlets are starting to take a look at John McCain’s backroom deals. Check out this piece run in the New York Times this morning about McCain’s relationship with local land razer Don Diamond. Thankfully, they did not allege an affair in this case.
Our boy Ray Carroll […]
One of those things that makes me laugh a wee bit: in their zeal to outlaw the already illegal institution of gay marriage, our Republican friends did a strike all on SCR 1042, which in its original form would have created a holiday to honor Viet-Nam veterans. That this bill wasn’t going anywhere and that they […]
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