I recieved a missive from our capitol correspondent, Sonoran Sam. Sam is an alright guy because despite his residency in the Valley of the Yakes, he is a former Tucsonan.
Posting his stuff is easier than writing my own, right?
Rep. Jerry Weiers – not to be confused with his evil brother Big Jim Weiers, the speaker […]
My mom got a robo call today that went through a rundown of the bill that Linda Lopez voted to move forward, and then promised to connect the listener to Lopez’s office. Gawd…that’s some serious juice there. Anyone have any idea who is funding that?
The heat thrown at Lopez and Pete Rios has apparently caused […]
KUAZ (89.1 on your FM dial) is doing something interesting: they are featuring interviews with Phil Lopes and Tim Bee every Thursday. The two of them alternate weeks, with an interview with Lopes being featured last week, and today they will be broacasting an interview with Bee. As far as I can tell, this will […]
The funny thing with politics is, if enough people are wondering if a story is true, it doesn’t matter if it actually is true. The fact that people are talking about it is a story all its own.
A few days ago I recieved an e-mail from a reader up in Phoenix who was asking me […]
Back in the closing years of the last century, I was regional director for the Young Democrats of America. A month or so into my term, an e-mail hit the YDA listserv (something I started, one of the few tangible accomplishments I made during my brief brush with leadership in that group) announcing that Oklahoma […]
As much fun as I’ve had poking at the Republicans, there is a race for Party Chair on our side too.
The last two years have seen three, yes three, State Democratic Party Chairs. Jim Pederson resigned to run for US Senate, his replacement Harry Mitchell resigned to run for US House. Mitchell was replaced with […]
I ran into Phil Lopes yesterday, and he told me that he could take me. Okay, not really. But Lopes was having a problem that he didn’t anticipate. He had to make arrangements to move today’s Democratic caucus meeting to a different room to accomodate four members more than anticipated.
Not exactly the sort of problem […]
Last week, Linda Lopez led a group of three members in a sort of coup d’etat on the Sunnyside School District board and removed District superintendent Raúl Bejarano and board president Eva Carrillo-Dong.
The board had to relent and reinstate Bejarano after public objection. The most silly part of the Bejarano move was that his contract […]
When people would complain about the mid-decade redistricting that occured in Texas before the last year, I would point out that because of our Independent Redisticiting Commission, it could not happen in Arizona.
Well, yes and no.
What Rep. Tom DeLay did in Texas would be constitutionally impossible here. Instead we have the IRC draw the lines. […]
I was going to write a long rant about the problems with presidential primaries. I realized that it was way way too long…I think even my most loyal readers would not suffer through it. I’ll put it up later when I can figure out how to make it short.
Anyhoo…the Pima County Nucleus Club last night […]
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