Ward 2 City Councilmember Paul Cunningham has filed his papers to run for a full term. An official announcement will come later. Cunningham was on my indoor soccer team over a decade ago, and is likely still bragging about his being the leading scorer in the league. I would like to point out that several [...]
I’ve often had people ask me about internal Democratic party matters and if I’m going to blog about them. Sometimes, they think I should, other times they are worried I will. For the most part, I’ve stayed away from doing so. You’ve no doubt noticed I’ve given only a shade more than token attention to [...]
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Bob Usdane, who served as president of the Arizona State Senate from 1989-1991, has passed away. That was a particular dicey time in Arizona politics, particularly within the Republican party. After having to work as majority leader during the impeachment of Evan Mecham, Usdane became Senate president with his party split between Mecham loyalists (the [...]
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Barack Obama has said that his views on gay marriage are “evolving,” and unfortunately some on our side have ridiculed this stance. But, he’s only reflecting something that many of us are doing on the issue. Joe Biden, who has taken the same stance as the President, has acknowledged that gay marriage is only a [...]
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Jon Stewart, taking time out from his duties as the African-American member of the Green Lantern Corps, has introduced a new character on the Daily Show, puppet John McCain. TPM has details and video. We at R-Cubed would never countenance such rude and foul gestures, and are only providing the photograph for scientific and research [...]
Thursday, January 6, 2011
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
When I heard the news that Gabrielle Giffords was one of the nineteen Democrats that didn’t vote for Nancy Pelosi for speaker, I put a call in to Giffords spokesman C. J. Karamargin for some sort of response. He e-mailed it to me, and it is printed below. This happens fairly often in the Democratic [...]
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Shaun McClusky has officially filed to run for mayor. Which leads one to ask: has he paid the fines from his last campaign yet? He has re-purposed his old blog for his run for mayor. I gotta admit: that is one hell of a dog.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Here’s a bit from today’s Tucson Sentinel: Arizona’s true state budget deficit is $2.1 billion, more than triple the $825 million cited by Gov. Jan Brewer and Republicans in the Legislature, a new study estimates. The study referred to here is yet another Morrison Institute study that will cause everyone to wring their hands except [...]
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
I’ve had a chance to look over the “finding” that Tom Horne released at the last minute that Tucson Unified School District’s ethnic studies program is in violation of the law he helped draft. What struck me is that there is nothing new in the ten page document, which begs the question, why bother to [...]
