Looking back on a good week.
Next week is going to be a humdinger for Arizona progressives in terms of the bad legislation on the agenda but this past week ended on a couple of positive notes and I think we should take a moment to appreciate them. 1. Komen/Planned Parenthood smackdown. Supporters of comprehensive (and that includes reproductive) women’s health [...]
It’s actually important.
“If all you care about is abortion…” Last week, someone prefaced a comment to me thusly. I’ve heard variants of that line for years, mostly from fellow liberals and centrists who think some of us ladies spend too much time dwelling on reproductive justice when there are so many more Important ThingsTM we ought to [...]
Did Governor Brewer even know what her “biography” said about the meeting with the President in 2010?
Per WaPo Politics: “He didn’t feel that I had treated him cordially” in the book, Brewer explained to reporters Wednesday. “I said to him that I have all the respect in the world for the office of the president. The book is what the book is. I asked him if he read the book. He [...]
ALEC put the jackboot down on a reporter. But nothing to see here. Move along.
I had been swapping newspaper stories with Olivia Ward of the Toronto Star on one of the saloon’s overstuffed leather couches as the bar filled with attendees of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) 2011 States and Nation Policy Summit (SNPS). ALEC had repeatedly refused to grant me media credentials. Nevertheless, I was a paying [...]
Goldwater Institute wants to end solar subsidies. All of them.
Per Clint Bolick of the Goldwater Institute (GI): It’s not every day that the New York Times makes a compelling case against government giveaways. But a recent page-one article underscored that the Solyndra scandal was only the tip of the solar-subsidy iceberg. Huge companies like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, General Electric, utilities including Exelon and [...]
Not that it will stop the Republicans here from passing more discriminatory anti-voting laws
Per Campus Progress: O’Keefe’s video shows individuals in polling stations throughout New Hampshire attempting to vote using the name of recently deceased persons in this week’s primary election. While his video shows smooth-sailing for every attempt, the reality is that the actions were so suspicious, they prompted a voting supervisor to call the police. Before [...]
Congratulations, Senator Lujan
Statement from David Lujan on Board of Supervisors’ Appointment to Arizona Senate Lujan vows to advance forward-thinking, inclusive vision for Arizona PHOENIX – “I’m grateful for the opportunity to complete the term of my former seatmate, Kyrsten Sinema, and look forward to fighting harder than ever before for the forward-thinking, inclusive values that the voters [...]
