Democratic Diva

Y’all know the drill. Channel 12 at 8am. I’m on the panel with Howie Fischer (Capitol Media Services) and Casey Newton (AZ Republic). We’ll be talking about Andy Thomas’ deepening legal woes, the prison break, and Ben Quayle. For nocturnal kitties like TC it’s online.

It’s safe to say that Buz Mills destroyed his chances at winning the GOP primary with his embarrassing performance on Sunday Square Off. First, he floundered when Brahm Resnik pressed him about school funding and the ratio of teachers to “administrators”. Poor Buz clearly did not expect Brahm to bust out with the stats to [...]

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1. Pride Festival Was a blast as always and I was working it getting signatures for Dem candidates. You don’t usually get much resistance while collecting petition signatures in this crowd. “Hi, I’m collecting signatures to get (Dem candidate) on the ballot to run against (Republican incumbent)…” The words are no sooner out of your [...]

That’s the subtitle to a pivotal article by Peggy McIntosh, who in the late 80s while working as a researcher on women’s studies, sought to develop a better understanding of white privilege and male privilege. Her work led her to write White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, which you can read here, along with a [...]

I’m looking right at you, Mayor Gordon. No, not because of your girlfriend, but for who you immediately got into bed with when it began to look like you might face scrutiny for certain financial transactions associated with the relationship. Jason Rose??!? Rose has been a busy little turd-polishing flack these days. Just last Saturday [...]

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got a lot of love for the New Times. The free weekly has been a godsend for its brave reporting on subjects that Phoenix’s so-called paper of record won’t touch with a 10 foot pole. And I don’t expect them to be the mouthpiece for Arizona Democrats the way the [...]