Democratic Diva

Pass Prop 302, that’s how. It’s the Legislature’s referendum to redirect the revenue collected from the First Things First cigarette tax to the general fund. The money will go directly to the coffers of the Chamber of Commerce in the form of more tax cuts to fat cats as God and John Kavanaugh intended. First [...]

The Americans with Disabilites Act turned 20 years old yesterday. The act was signed into law by President GHW Bush on June 26, 1990. It sought to address discrimination in employment, housing, accommodations, and other areas against physically and mentally disabled people. The reviews on it in practice are mixed but most disability activists I’ve [...]

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 [...]

Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association wrote a blog post where he called children born to unmarried mothers bastards. Yes, “bastards”. Fischer’s solution to poverty and wealth disparity is to let the poor eat marriage and let the children of sluts starve. He points out that we are exacerbating the problem by subsidizing it. [...]

It was bad enough that the editorial was a pile of false equivalence bullhockey. Remember how Democratic lawmakers and liberal pundits were egging on the “ecoterrorists, destructive animal-rights activists and left-wing anarchists”? Yeah, neither do I. It was worse for the Republic to indulge in the kind of rhetoric always used to excuse and enable [...]

I’m an overjoyed Diva this morning to learn that AZHHA is sponsoring an initiative to fund health care for low income Arizonans though a small tax increase on the wealthy. I love this: As crafted, any earnings below $150,000 would be taxed at current rates. But anything above that would be subject to a surcharge. [...]

Yesterday’s poll on the NBC station website in Upper Michigan. Are you concerned about the threats toward Bart Stupak? Yes, they are a disgrace. No, they are justified. They are harmless and will pass in no time.