Consequences for “sin” vary widely by one’s position in society
Today is Special Election Day in South Carolina, where Republican Mark Sanford faces off against Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch to fill a vacant Congressional seat. Sanford, of course, is the former Governor who, while he was a Governor, famously hiked the Appalachian Trail in South America with his mistress without telling anyone where he had [...]
A reminder that proponents of Prop 102 lied to Arizona in 2008
In 2006 Prop 107 would have added the following words to the Arizona State Constitution: “To preserve and protect marriage in this state, only a union between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage by this state or its political subdivisions and no legal status for unmarried persons shall [...]
Robert Robb pulls the “I’m rubber, you’re glue” gambit on voter suppression charges
I am speaking, of course, of Arizona Republic columnist Bob Robb patiently white man-splaining race relations to us. Racism is ugly and has been a searing experience in American history. It undoubtedly still exists. Unjustified accusations of racism are perhaps less ugly, but intolerably ugly nonetheless. And a decent case can be made that the [...]
Goldwater Institute report reveals there’s not a whole lot of daylight between libertarians and corporatists
Arizona Working Families, a pro-labor group, and the Center for Media and Democracy have released A Reporter’s Guide to the Goldwater Institute What Citizens, Policymakers, and Reporters Should Know. The guide is a good primer on GI for those not familiar with it and also contains a lot of information about how the Institute operates, [...]
If only we could just “pay for it ourselves”
In a stunning turn of events – if by “stunning” you mean “wholly predictable” – a group of GOP Representatives are threatening to hold up sequester negotiations unless the Obama administration rolls back the Affordable Care Act’s mandate to provide contraception coverage in employee health plans. Their excuse, natch, is “religious freedom”. GOP lawmakers reintroduced [...]
Tom Horne left a lot out of the Arizona Voting Rights Act story
Big tip o’ the hat to my bestest commenter Timmy’s Cat for linking to this USC Review of Law and Social Justice article: “Voting Rights in Arizona: 1982–2006.” The article outlines Arizona’s sordid history of voter suppression, which led to our being subject to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. It was not, as [...]
Don’t they want to protect babies?
The lovely and talented Arizona Senator Katie Hobbs recently introduced SB1358, which was co-sponsored by a bevy of other lovely and talented members of the Democratic Senate caucus. And what sort of monstrous freedom-destroying socialism were these Senators up to? Well, the bill would ban the sale in Arizona of baby product containers containing BPA, [...]
