The US House passed something called the Gila Bend Indian Reservation Lands Replacement Clarification Act yesterday. It would effectively block the Tohono O’Odham Nation from building a casino on land that they acquired in Glendale. Trent Franks has been pushing for this legislation, with cheerleading from Jan Brewer and the Gila River Indian Community, who’d [...]
One of Jesse Kelly’s chief arguments against Ron Barber was that he would be a “rubber stamp” for whoever was the appropriate boogie-person at the time: Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and, scariest of all, Raúl Grijalva. Well, it didn’t take long for Barber to distance himself from one of those. Barber and Grijalva took opposite [...]
Janet Napolitano announced this morning that DHS will no longer deport “low priority” illegal immigrants. These would be folks who migrated before their sixteenth birthday, have committed no major crimes and are under the age of 30. It goes without saying that this will cause the usual veins-in-the-neck popping snit from certain folks who have [...]
Raúl Grijalva and other members of the US House Progressive Caucus announce their amicus brief in the SB 1070 case before the Supreme Court.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
A while back, the state AFL-CIO announced the endorsements of Raúl Grijalva, Ed Pastor and Gabrielle Giffords. Although the Giffords endorsement turned out to be moot, none of the names were surprising. They released another set of federal endorsements today. They endorsed Richard Carmona for the US Senate over Don Bivens. Yep, Carmona is seen [...]
Filed in 2012 US Senate Race, Congressional District 1, Congressional District 9, Labor, New CD 2 (Old CD 8), New CD 3 (Old CD 7)
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Also tagged AFL-CIO, Ann Kirkpatrick, Don Bivens, Ed Pastor, Gabrielle Giffords, Kyrsten Sinema, Richard Carmona, Rose Mofford, United Steel Workers, Wenona Benally
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This came from the NRCC yesterday: We may have just learned Barber’s campaign plans today, but we’ve already known his political agenda for weeks. Barber is supported by Arizona boycotter Raul Grijalva and has said he would have rubber stamped all of President Obama’s policies over the last three years, including Obamacare’s $500 billion cut [...]
I caught a bit of Frank Antenori’s comments this morning on KUAZ about the upcoming special election for congress. It would surprise no one that Antenori is a candidate (or, ahem, “exploring”), but he’s also whining about how the process is going to work. His claim is that he’ll have to set up two campaign [...]
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Richard Carmona’s campaign is still relatively new, and I think last night’s appearance at the District 28 Democratic Club is his first time addressing a Democratic Party group. First off, the quote of the night: I grew up swimming in the Harlem river. It’s why I’m so healthy. I was exposed to every imaginable pathogen [...]
This from a weekend post on the Somos Republicans blog: The Arizona Republican Party is going to have to do better than Gabriela Saucedo Mercer in order to replace Congressman Raúl Grijalva. The group takes issue with Mercer for embracing SB 1070, which despite it’s apparent popularity polls dismally among Hispanics. Their last nominee campaigned [...]
