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| 2011-07-13 "I just didn't have my hand on the trigger" - Pointing a gun is a crime http://www.arizonaguardian.com/azg/index.php?option=com_jcs&view=jcs&layout=form&Itemid=108 Az state senator Lori Klein pointed a gun at a reporter who was questioning her views on gun control. This is aggravated assault under ARS 13-1203: "2. Intentionally placing another person in reasonable apprehension of imminent physical injury; " and ARS-12041 If a gunsight on one's chest doesn't cause " reasonable apprehension of imminent physical injury.", I'm not sure what does. Some states have specific laws regarding pointing guns. In North Carolina: "If any person shall point any gun or pistol at any person, either in fun or otherwise, whether such gun or pistol be loaded or not loaded, he shall be guilty of a Class A1 misdemeanor." http://law.onecle.com/north-carolina/14-criminal-law/14-34.html The 9th circuit has ruled that " Pointing a gun at a person can ...read more... | add comment |
| 2011-06-29 Activists Calendar Take part in your community - from political discussions to volunteer opportunities, these groups welcome you! 1/17/2011 changed search to 'Giffords Recovery' | add comment |
| 2011-08-16 Redistricting Moving Ahead http://www.azredistricting.org/Maps/default.asp The first draft of the redistricting maps are done. By law, the redistricting commission has to start from scratch every 10 years, drawing maps based on population and other factors without consideration for existing political boundaries. According to the commission website, these first draft maps take into account only equal population and compactness/contiguousness. Next, the commission will modify them for four factors:
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| 2012-04-22 Redistricting commission: Its not just a legal question http://btucson.com/Tucson/Politics%20&%20Government//194163#bajaaz Thanks Howard Fischer. I was looking for a reason we need independent reporting in Arizona, and your article "AZ court: Governor wrong on dismissal" just provided it. Sure, your facts are there, the what and when: four months later, the court explained their reasoning for not allowing Gov. Brewer to pop out Colleen Mathis, chairman of the independent redistricting commission. But you skipped the big 'why?' - why does Brewer want so badly to remove Mathis? Is it really because she believes Mathis has neglected her duties in some technical way? Why is independent redistricting so important? The cur ...read more... | add comment |
| 2010-06-30 Rio Nuevo Board http://cms3.tucsonaz.gov/rionuevo Anyone attending the meetings of the Rio Nuevo Board is welcome to post comments here. This document has some expenditure details: http://cms3.tucsonaz.gov/docs/FY09_Inception_to_date_expenditures(1).pdf Appears approx $11M operating expenses and $194M purchases/development expenses are reported. I'm curious where the Science Center 7.7M went to? Was this all for design, or do we have anything on the ground? | add comment |
| 2009-11-29 STOP corrupt bankers!! Come out and voice your opposition to corrupt bankers who ruined our national economy and are ripping us off by enslaving Americans to perpetual debt. No terrorists could have had such a devastating impact on our Nation as they have had. They are worse than terrorists and they are the real enemy!! Bank of America is by far the worst of the bunch. Just google "Bank of America Complaints" and see how people have been treated by this pathetic corporate greed machine. Bankers must be pressured to clean up their act and do honest business with people instead of being allowed to conduct themselves with unrestrained, unscrupulous, predatory schemes to rip off everyone to the fullest extent. They have screwed up the housing market and the entire American economy because of their endless need fo ...read more... | add comment |
| 2011-01-13 She opened her eyes http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/01/13/how-gabrielle-giffords-opened-her-eyes/ "She knows we're out here, she knows we're rooting for her" Obama told the crowd at McKale. The WSJ has a touching story with the details of how Gabrielle Giffords opened her eyes yesterday." | add comment |
| 2011-11-01 Sister site bPhoenixAZ.com covers Cortes scandal http://bphoenixaz.com/2011/11/videos-russell-pearce-recall/ Russell Pearce claims he never talked to sham candidate Cortes' "campaign people" - apparently including Pearce's brother, Justice of the Peace Lester Pearce who worked for Cortes. Read latest news about the Pearce recall at our new sister site, bPhoenixAZ.com" | add comment |
| 2010-06-30 Sparks yes, explosions no http://www.kvoa.com/news/governor-signs-fireworks-bill-into-law/ Fireworks that explode or shoot up into the air are NOT legal to be sold or used by private individuals in Tucson; sparklers, or other devices that produce sparks but do not explode, are now legal to sell and use in Arizona. | add comment |
| 2011-11-19 Tell the Az Leg to cut it out http://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-Colleen-Mathis-and-Independent-Redistricting/287437761289982?sk=wall Here are all the senators emails in a convenient format to send an email message to all Az State Senators. Tell them we will not put up with more attempts to gerrymander Arizona's districts. Voters pick representatives - representatives do NOT get to pick their voters! The 21 Republican senators have been supporting Brewer's ploy to replace Colleen Mathis with a political puppet. If just two of them bow out, they will have less than a 2/3 majority. Republican Arizona state senators: sallen@azleg.gov fantenori@azleg.gov nbarto@azleg.gov abiggs@azleg.gov sbundgaard@azleg.gov rcrandall@azleg.gov adriggs@azleg.gov rgould@azleg.gov lgray@azleg.gov ggriffin@azleg.gov lklein@azleg.gov jmccomish@azleg.gov amelvin@azleg.gov rmurphy@azleg.gov jnelson@azleg.gov rpearce@az ...read more... | add comment |
| 2011-01-12 Thoughts and Prayers for Rep. Giffords & Other Victims http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thoughts-and-Prayers-for-Rep-Giffords-Other-Victims/173859329317449?v=wall MoveOn created a Facebook page for people to send their thoughts and good wishes for all of the victims. | add comment |
| 2010-12-31 Tom Horne makes me sick He is sacrificing our children, schools and teachers to his political ambition. He gets political points for his grandstanding on 'raza' classes and assertion that he can micromanage our teachers from the highest level at the state. What do we get? More teacher layoffs and incredibly hurtful cuts, more closures of neighborhood schools. Our kids pay for his political crap. And then he has the gall to say on his website: "The paradigm shift, since I took office is that the Department of Education will be primarily a service organization, helping school districts and charter schools achieve more academic success. The Department is also an organization that assures compliance, and we will have to be conscientious about that, but the compliance function will be secondary. The primary fun ...read more... | add comment |
| 2011-07-14 Try Balancing the Budget Yourself! http://www.federalbudgetchallenge.org/budget_challenge/sim/budget_master.html You can take the reins and see how to do it - take the Federal Budget Challenge: http://www.federalbudgetchallenge.org/budget_challenge/sim/budget_master.html NextTen and the Concord Coalition have created an interactive budget simulation. It takes only about 5 minutes but makes one think carefully about the choices we have in front of us. When I did the simulation I wound up with a deficit of 12 Trillion - and that was with raising taxes on the wealthy and significant cuts ! Without those choices, our current deficit outlook is 14.4 Trillion. (5.6T of that is interest on the debt, which is part of what makes it hard to balance the budget - just like credit card borrowing)" | add comment |
2010-01-09  Tucson City Budget Notes http://www.ci.tucson.az.us/budget/docs/09BOOK-V1.pdf For reference, here is the adopted biannual 2009-2010 budget that the city is working from. Constructive ideas for how to help close the shortfall? | add comment |
| 2010-03-15 Tucson Coffee Party http://www.facebook.com/pages/Join-the-Coffee-Party-Movement-Tucson/326934973466?ref=ts seems to be off to an active start - check out their Facebook page for more info | add comment |
| 2010-09-06 VOTERS 4 KIDS Celebration @ Ft Lowell Park LABOR DAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2010, 10 AM - NOON Ft. Lowell Park, 2900 N. Craycroft Road - Ramada #1 Curious George * Raffle Prizes From Craycroft go east on Glenn. Turn left (north) into the Ft. Lowell Park. Ramada #1 is the first one, by the playgrounds on the right. FUN FOR KIDS - balloons, light refreshments, playground, children's entertainer Bruce Phillips performing SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR KIDS REGISTER TO VOTE - FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR KIDS" | add comment |
| 2011-05-02 What Can a Mayor Do for Tucson? Quite a bit, according to Jonathan Rothschild, the Democratic candidate apparent. Rothschild, currently a $295/hr attorney, intends to drop out of his law practice and dedicate his 12-hour workdays to 'doing whatever it takes' to make Tucson thrive. We interviewed Rothschild from broad strokes to brass tacks. He's articulate, well-researched, and can think on his feet. My kids also thought he was genuinely decent, and they are pretty tough on fakes. bTucson: Let's start with some general background - you've done lots of work with nonprofits, had you some interaction with political figures during that time? What triggered your run for mayor? Rothschild: The work I've done for social service agencies, particularly Casa de los Ninos and operation deep freeze althoug ...read more... | add comment |
| 2011-04-01 azleg: just kidding http://azleg.gov "All that stuff about a state firearm, guns in bars - we really had you going, didn't we?" a leading state republican said, asking to remain anonymous. "Who wants to do April Fool's jokes on Apr 1? There's no fun in that, because everyone knows. So we kept this up for more than a year, and we really had the whole state fooled. The state? The whole country!" "And now slashing money from schools when we already spend nearly the least of any state in the US. Did you see that headline this morning? I'll bet you believed it. You really thought anyone would do that? Tomorrow we'll expose all these hoaxes, and have a good laugh." --wishfool thinkur. | add comment |
| 2010-09-06 re: 'beheadings' http://www.wisepolitics.com/jan-brewer-beheadings-lie-in-new-terry-goddard-campaign-ad-1814.html WisePolitics, a relative newcomer to the political blogscene, seems to have some on-point contributors. Olivia O lets Brewer have it as 'one of the worst things to happen to Arizona in a long time'. | add comment |
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