This week in Center for Arizona Policy: Who would Jesus card check?
My google alert for CAP popped up and one of the links was to CAP President Cathi Herrod’s weekly digest “5 Minutes for Families – Exclusive Insight for Arizona Families”. In this week’s installment Cathi discussed: How everyone should continue a Down’s Syndrome pregnancy because it seems to be working out for the families choosing [...]
Jeff Flake is so “moderate” he’s to the right of Michele Bachmann
Mark alerted me to this Heritage Foundation Congressional record card put out back in August. It being the Heritage Foundation, Congresscritters were ranked on how big a corporate stooge and hater of poor people they are. Here are the top scorers: Michele Bachmann garnered a mere 94%. Michele Bachmann. Yet another gentle reminder to my [...]
New blog takes on ALEC in Arizona!
http://azresistsalec.wordpress.com/ ALEC itself is a tool for hundreds of corporations to use for the sole purpose of obtaining access to thousands of legislators and then exploiting that access to pass profit-making legislation. ALEC works like a think tank, devising legislation that benefits the corporate elite at the cost of the masses and then putting that [...]
Russell Pearce has always been who the NFIB thought he was.
I begin with another installment of What Tedski Said: So, let’s reiterate: if we get rid of that Clean Elections system, we’ll have fewer extremists (who, of course, are on both sides) in the legislature. This is true on the Republican side because responsible business leaders will weigh in and become a moderate, pragmatic force [...]
How does Phoenix Mayor candidate Jennifer Wright think that contractors keep costs down?
Tea Party favorite Jennifer Wright is seen as an up-and-comer in the Phoenix Mayor race by political observers in Sand Land. I predicted she’d be formidable in a recent post since she has the Tea Party support and a good name (yes, that makes a difference). Her debate performances have been panned and her spotty [...]
MSNBC picked up the ALEC story. Maybe the Arizona media will pay attention.
Lawrence O’Donnell did a nice segment about ALEC on his Last Word show tonight. He was surprised (as am I) that in all his years in politics he had never heard of the organization until now, despite ALEC being in existence since 1973 and wielding a tremendous amount of corporate influence over state legislatures, including [...]
It’s so lame when politicians politicize the border
President Obama visited El Paso, TX to give a speech on the border and immigration today. This caused our Arizona GOP politicians to react swiftly with huffy statements wherein they “scoffed” and expressed the profound butthurtedness they felt over Obama slighting Arizona: “This is not surprising considering he made the same evolution in 2008,” the [...]
