Democratic Diva

As you are no doubt aware, Barack Obama is scheduled to make a trip to Europe and the Middle East in the upcoming week.  Obviously, with a full entourage and a passel of reporters accompanying him, it’s kinda hard for the Senator from IL to just slip into a country unnoticed.   
However,
The Obama campaign has […]

David Safier from Blog For Arizona shared the poigiant story of little Dustin Heatherly, a toddler who is suffering from a genetic defect that requires a kidney transplant.   His parents chose life for their son, which is what social conservatives want them to do, despite being alerted to his condition in utero. 
A sitting Democratic legislator […]

This evening Mark and I attended the Native American Voting Rights 60th anniversary celebration at the Fort McDowell reservation.   Prior to a 1948 AZ Supreme Court decision, Native Americans were considered to be “under Federal guardianship”.  That meant, essentially, that they were wards of the state,and therefore disqualified from voting.   Pretty shocking to think that a people who have been […]

You might recall that back in 2000 there wasn’t too much love lost between John McCain and George Bush.  After all, it was pretty well known that during that GOP primary Karl Rove orchestrated robocalls detailing McCain having an “illegitimate black baby” - referring to his adopted daughter from Bangladesh.  They went out to Republican voters in South Carolina.  […]

Last Thursday was the deadline to file ballot initiatives.  9 of the 11 that Arizonans will be able to vote on (assuming the signatures aren’t challenged) are Citizens Initiatives.  That means, ostensibly, that a group of concerned ordinary, salt-of- the-earth folks got together and collected signatures from a few hundred thousand of their neighbors.  Then the rest […]