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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Republic: Underreporting of $2 million by Clean Elections merely an irony |
| Published: August 5, 2007, 11:06 am |
| Tags: Arizona Politics, Deception, Media |
| numbers. Kudos to the Arizona Capitol Times for reporting this issue as real news. The deception came in the form of including this quote of Executive Director of Clean Elections, Todd Lang: Clean Elections already goes easy on candidates who've made a simple bookkeeping mistake with no intention to deceive. In the Republic s |
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| RNC: News from National Convention |
| Published: August 4, 2007, 3:34 pm |
| Tags: Arizona Politics, National Politics, Foolishness |
| Resolutions urge Congress to secure nation's borders; defeat efforts to withdraw support of rocker Bono's massive tax on Americans for global issues Although the 168-member Republican National Committee passed a resolution urging securing America's borders against foreign nationals seeking illegal access to the U.S., the RNC defeated |
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| Reaping what they sowed |
| Published: August 4, 2007, 12:00 pm |
| Tags: Arizona Politics, Elections |
| down by President Bush and Arizona Senators Jon Kyl and John McCain, declared they were no longer comfortable in a party where their own elected leadership disregarded those who had put them in office—the Republican voters and party activists. But equally as important was a 1998 amendment to the Arizona Constitution, known as Prop. |
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| Arizona Saga: Fourteen illegals returned to Mexico |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 11:41 pm |
| Tags: Arizona Politics, Law Enforcement, Immigration |
| Short story minus surprise ending Abbreviated account of Tribune report: Over-packed with human cargo, van blows tire and is derailed alongside the road. Fleeing illegals picked up by Pinal County Sheriff's deputies, taken to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for processing. Illegals refuse to testify in court. All fourteen |
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| Victory for charter schools |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 4:19 pm |
| Tags: Arizona Politics, Parental Rights, Education |
| specific items. Tom Horne, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction, says he supports parental choice in education and encourages charter schools, but wants to ensure that all students are taught certain subjects in alignment with traditional public schools for grade level standardization . Reporter Howard Fischer of The Arizona Daily Star |
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| Laura Pastor: Running for city council seat, collecting from national and worldwide donors |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 12:13 pm |
| Tags: County City Issues, Az Dc Delgation, Arizona Politics, Integrity |
| ..a-a-choo The daughter of Arizona CD 4 Congressman Ed Pastor, appears to have some major problems, as many of her city council campaign donors are linked to her father's interests. Her required campaign finance reporting information on individual contributors is sketchy, with omissions on 18 percent of her reports, raising additional |
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| Bush administration announces sanctions against businesses that knowingly hire illegals. |
| Published: August 11, 2007, 10:51 am |
| Tags: Arizona Politics, Immigration, President Bush |
| a ton of bricks.” Arizona Governor Napolitano, who signed the state's tough Employer Sanctions into law, has said “I believe in the end it will withstand constitutional challenge.” |
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| The Republic's orchestra is tuning up |
| Published: August 22, 2007, 12:00 pm |
| Tags: Arizona Politics, Media |
| beat McCain? Since Arizona's senior senator is playing sour notes within his own state, his party and with his tattered presidential bid on life support, what measure is this? Such facts don't deter her ever-fawning supporters at the morning paper from calling her a daunting candidate. Sit tight folks, this concert is going to be |
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| No frenzy in Renzi announcement |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 8:55 pm |
| Tags: Az Dc Delgation, Arizona Politics, Congress |
| Terming his exit a retirement is making lemonade out of a crate of lemons FOX News details the announcement that comes as no surprise. Rep. Rick Renzi is now free—at least for the moment—to rejoin his family in Virginia. Although the word is Renzi’s currentl plans are to remain in Congress until his term ends in |
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| Super IDs for you and me? |
| Published: August 25, 2007, 10:26 am |
| Tags: Arizona Politics, Janet Napolitano, North American Union, President Bush |
| Arizona would be among first to use this passport /driver's license The Arizona Republic reports an agreement has been reached between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the state of Arizona to employ new, costly, state-issued and tamper-proof licenses as a valid ID for entering the country. The article states: Washington and |
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| Democrats weigh in on family values |
| Published: August 25, 2007, 11:46 am |
| Tags: Arizona Politics, Mirth, Culture Society |
| Ah, the topsy-turvy world of politics The Arizona Democrat party is outraged that nudist ranch owner Horst Kraus has been appointed to the state GOP finance committee. There are valid reasons to be concerned about Kraus, but for the Democrats to be so inflamed about his clothing optional resort somehow strikes us as humorous. Have they |
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| Fear Factor: AZ Republic style |
| Published: August 26, 2007, 5:46 pm |
| Tags: Arizona Politics, Deception, Immigration, Media |
| As illegal workers flee Arizona in anticipation of the Employer Sanctions law (HB 2779), the daily paper puts us on alert that the implementation of the law will so tighten the labor market, that it could lead to higher wages and also higher costs for goods and services. These dire predictions come to us via Don Wehbey, the Arizona |
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| District 20: Looking to the future |
| Published: August 28, 2007, 4:30 pm |
| Tags: Arizona Politics |
| The decision of Chandler Mayor, Boyd Dunn, not to seek a District 20 legislative seat, has Republicans casting for a winnable candidate for the 2008 cycle. The East Valley district will be losing Rep. Bob Robson to term limits. In 2006, the district's incumbent Republican Senator, John Huppenthal, won his seat by a 3,000 vote margin. Comfortable? |
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| Musical chairs in Northern Arizona |
| Published: August 28, 2007, 5:40 pm |
| Tags: Arizona Politics |
| The seductive call of the political siren The news is Tom Chabin has been named to fill the District 2 state legislative seat left vacant by Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick's leap into the congressional ring. Kirkpatrick has announced her intention to run for the District 1 congressional seat currently held by embattled U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi, who is |
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| Poll findings: Strong statewide support for Employer Sanctions |
| Published: August 29, 2007, 2:29 pm |
| Tags: Arizona Politics, Culture Society, Immigration |
| Arizona voters approve of immigration hotline The Republic gave scant coverage today to the findings of a new Cronkite-Eight Poll conducted by Bruce Merrill, the pollster with an unfailingly liberal bent. The coverage, contained in a small, one column by 3-inch gray box, is titled Majority in poll support immigration hotline. The real story is |
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