Senator Carl Hayden famously said that elected officials were either show horses or work horses. If you want to get your name in the papers, you should be a show horse. If you wanted to actually get things done, you should be a work horse instead. Because of the traumatic events of the past week, a [...]
The Arizona Republic reports that scandal-plagued Republican Attorney General Tom Horne turned down a chance for a televised debate against once-and-future Democratic AG candidate Felecia Rotellini regarding his fit of rage over Bisbee’s civil unions ordinance. He said that he “didn’t feel comfortable appearing with Felecia.” Rotellini is probably too gracious and professional to outright [...]
Edwin Leslie, an adviser to Jan Brewer on tourism issues, has quit over her latest crusade against gay and lesbian state employees. With limited funding of state parks, underfunding of promotion of our state, hostile rhetoric towards Hispanics from our state’s leaders and even closed signs at rest stops for a time, the question is [...]
I heard a bit on the local NPR station that Ron Barber will be voting against the Obamacare repeal. I’m glad to hear he’s not running away from it. I still don’t get the over-caution from him. The district he’s running in now is even more Democratic than the one he skunked Jesse Kelly in. [...]
La Cervecera announced that she will not be calling the legislature into special session. For those that don’t remember (actually, it was only the last post), the governor was going to call a special session to deal with a citizens’ initiative to give Arizona a “jungle primary.” I don’t pretend to know why the session [...]
Joe Biden came out for marriage equality this morning. On the TV even. Below is the press release from Catholics for Equality: WASHINGTON – Catholics for Equality, the country’s largest national political organization of pro-LGBT equality Catholics, issued the following statement in response to Vice President Joseph Biden’s announcement this morning on Meet the Press [...]
Friday, December 23, 2011
Jack Harper quoted on AzCentral.com regarding his latest anti-book jihad: The last thing we want is any type of agenda that says it’s normal to be gay or lesbian. If somebody is gay, it’s fine. But don’t force it down our kids’ throats at school.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Audience members at the Republican debate boo a gay soldier: The question was directed to Rick Santorum, who didn’t address the booing at all. Not one candidate on the stage said a word about the booing; none could even give the rote political line about thanking him for his service. Of course, after the debate, [...]
Sgt Maj Michael Barrett, Sergeant Major of the United States Marine Corps, quoted in the Wall Street Journal addressing the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” with Marines in Korea: “You all joined for a reason: to serve,” he continued. “To protect our nation, right?” “Yes, sergeant major,” Marines replied. “How dare we, then, exclude [...]
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