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Now the somewhat bizarre news - McCain attended a hosted for him by the chamber of commerce who helped kill McCain Feingold and now attacking the DISCLOSE Bill . There are no permanent friends or enemies in politics. There are just ex-Mavericks.
Remember when Phoenix lost the chance to host the Super Bowl in 1993 because of rescinding the Martin Luther King holiday and failing to bring it back. You would think the business community and state officials would with the adverse economic effect this had on the state. This was onne of the most successful boycotts in recent memories and Arizona recovered by earning right to host Super Bowl in 1996 after voters passed statewide vote recognizing MLK holiday.
Since I heard of this reactionary and evil passage and ramrod signing of SB 1070, I immediately thought that the best way to strike back would be a boycott of Major League Baseball. Hit them in the pocketbook and make them feel it. . MLB is scheduled to host the 2011 All-Star Game in Phoenix.
If you don't like the law do something. Join the effort to help raise awareness of boycotting at least 1 MLB game promoted by @savearizona on Twitter. use the hashtag #AZMLBB
This new papers bill is just a step below Nazi's branding the Star of David on your body or forcing someone wear the Scarlett Letter. If you look like an immigrant you will be forced to carry your legal papers in the State of Arizona.
Tuesday, I announced my run against the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Arizona.
I'd like to tell you why this race for U.S. Senate is so important for the people of Arizona.
Arizona needs a U.S. Senator who understands and represents all Arizonans. For more than 20 years John McCain has jetted over Arizona on his way to meet with foreign dignitaries and heads of state, barely touching down in Arizona except to have barbecues to court the national press during his presidential runs. His homes in Phoenix and Sedona sit empty, along with tens of thousands of homes that have been foreclosed upon. The families who occupied those homes, though, don't have other homes to jet off to. Their dreams of owning a home were destroyed, and McCain has refused to take the bold steps needed to rebuild those dreams. Arizona needs a U.S. Senator who will work for Arizona's future.
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This is GOOD NEWS for John McCain, and it comes at the expense of 42,000 Arizona children. What a sellout maverick.
Roughly translated, McCain and the Arizona GOP's message to sick AZ children would read like this . . . .
Dear Tiny Tim,
SCHIP costs money that should be going to tax cuts for the rich. Get a job and buy private insurance. Until then, don't get sick, and if you do, die quickly.
Tough shit, Sen. John McCain
U.S. Sen. John McCain may finally get his health-care wish, which is less care for fewer of Arizona's children.
The Arizona legislature voted to permanently end the state's participation in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), 13 years after McCain voted against it and 3 years after leading the charge against reauthorizing the popular bi-partisan program.
McCain's home state of Arizona is now the first and only state to ever opt out of SCHIP.
For Immediate Release
Rodney Glassman U.S. Senate
Exploratory Committee
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#1 I've got a couple of longshot candidates for you to check out. Rodney Glassman is running for Arizona Senate. There's been a blue drift from California Democrats moving to Nevada and Arizona for a while now. The Republicans are battling it out with McCain taking on rightwing talk show host JD Hayworth. If things get ugly enough could Rodney Glassman pick up the seat as a Democrat in AZ?
#2 Jack Conway is the Attorney General of Kentucky and he's running for Jim Bunning's Senate seat as a D. Just like in Arizona there's a hotly contested GOP primary. Republican party heir and Secretary of State Trey Grayson is losing in the polls to Dr. Ron Paul's son Rand Paul. Conway is a sharp egg, he could steal this seat.
#3 Have you joined the Coffee Party? It's a counter movement to the Tea Parties. But they seem to be adopting none of the loud and vile tactics of the teabaggers. One more benefit Coffeebagger is not a synonym for testicle sucking. The St. Louis chapter sounds like an interesting group.
"If we become the antithesis of the Tea Party, we cease to have any function," says Lear. "We're not looking to balance extremes. It's this idea of a cup of coffee. When we sit down with people to drink a cup of coffee, we're not at each other's throats."[...]
"I am concerned about the public discourse in our country that too much of the squeaky wheels get the grease," says Mary Kay Christian[...]
"Well, what we call this is an Astro Turf movement," says Jim Hoft, a conservative blogger and leader of the St. Louis Tea Party movement[...]
"It's driven from the top down and it's not a grass roots movement driven from the bottom up," says Hoft.
"I'm a home schooling dad working on my master at Lindenwold (University)," says Lear[...]
"I don't think it's particularly useful for me to sit at a table with only people who see things the way I do. It's hard to see the mud on my own back," says Lear.
#4 President Obama dropped in on a meeting insurance executives were having with HHS Kathryn Sebelius. He read to them a letter from someone who badly needs healthcare reform.
#5 Rep. Bart Stupak has either been lying about what abortion language is in the Senate bill or he hasn't read the bill. Jonathan Karl at ABC World News fact checked Bart Stupak and found one of his claims to be false.
I didn't quite catch that part about abortion, was Stupak's concern that subsidies provided for poor people's insurance would put them in a place where they'd buy abortion coverage? If not for the subsidies they wouldn't have the $1 abortion fee option? Or is he saying the subsidies would fund the abortions?
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On a local note: The Pentagon Metro stop reopened this afternoon. More details on that over the fold.
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Conan O'Brien closed out his final show with Will Ferrell and his very pregnant wife singing Free Bird. Conan joined in on the guitar. Good times. Great memories. Is that ZZ Top in the band?
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This is GOOD NEWS for John McCain, and it comes at the expense of 42,000 Arizona children. What a 
