A correspondent sent me some notes taken at yesterday’s press conference that featured Joe Arpaio and Russell Pearce.
A reporter asked Arpaio about Mary Rose Wilcox saying that his sweeps are unlawful
Sheriff said who? Oh, you mean the person who runs the Mexican restaurant and has people there who call me a Nazi? She can say […]
What an asshat.
-Tucson Weekly’s Jim Nintzel on local hate-mongering baboso Roy Warden in this week’s Range feature.
Roy Warden always insists that his opposition to illegal immigration isn’t about race. In fact, he claims, he is standing up to the people of Mexico against a corrupt system. He is the second coming of Emiliano Zapata. I’m not making that last one up; he actually claims that one.
So, he isn’t a racist. What […]
You know, I almost forgot about Tomás Tancredo. He kind of fell off the radar screen for me. Every once in a while, I sit there and think to myself, “Gosh, is he still as much of a gamoń as before?”
It turns out, yes, he is. All is right with the world.
Sen. Dick Durbin had […]
One of the possible traps that we political activists fall into is seeing every action of others through the lenses of our own ideology. It can lead us into giving folks political motives where none exist, basically because we think everyone must believe just as we do.
We have to remember sometimes that most people, even those […]
Ernesto Portillo Jr. started off his column this morning in this stunning manner:
State Rep. Tom Prezelski is my model.
Later, he says this:
He’s my model for cool clothes…
Uh, okay.
The article is really on the guayabera, which has been a choice of southern Arizona politicians for years. The shirt is casual, but acceptable in some formal settings. […]
From a letter signed by Russell Pearce and Bob Burns urging Janet Napolitano to sign the employer sanctions bill:
Notwithstanding all of our efforts, we understand that no bill is perfect and changes may be needed as the bill is imlemented. For that reason, we believe that dealing with this issue through the legislative process is […]
One of the things that has continued to amuse me in our state’s politics is the tendency of folks in the buisiness community to continue to support some of the retrograde freaks that run our legislature, but then expect Democratic officials to ride in and stop these guys from pursuing policies that hurt their interests.
I […]
We bloggers have been seeking out the infamous shot of Republican Mahout Randy Pullen at a press availability last week displaying a drawing of a middle finger that was sent to him to protest Jon Kyl’s support of the immigration compromise.
Pullen showed it to a television camera, but the only print photographer that managed to snap […]
You may remember that Republican Mahout Randy Pullen sent out a press release decrying the Senate immigration compromise, a fact that many of us have found interesting given that Jon Kyl has been credited for being the main guy pushing for it.
(Of course, many of the provisions of the bill were exactly the sorts of things […]
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