Tucson, AZ - Today, Ron Barber for Congress announced that the campaign has agreed to a debate in the special election for CD-8.
KUAT-TV (Channel 6) will host a televised head to head discussion of the issues. It will be aired throughout the district at 6pm on May 16th, the day before early ballots are sent to the voters of CD8.
How could Jesse Refuse?
There is more to May Day than a trip around the maypole. Today is International Worker’s Day, when we remember, and celebrate, battles fought and won by the American labor movement.
On the 2nd of November in 1909, during what became known as the “Uprising of the 20,000,” female garment workers went on strike in New York. Many were arrested and a judge told those arrested: “You are on strike against God.”
Wow…who’d have guessed?
There’s nothing unpatrio...
Don’t count on it, judging from Jesse Kelly’s refusal to respond to the the Star’s editorial board invitation to take part in a series asking Congressional District 8 candidates to share their thoughts on leadership and related topics.
Submitting written responses to softball questions doesn’t seem so threatening or difficult. If his campaign team wants to avoid that I imagine it’s because they’d much prefer to let the Republican party machine do Kelly’s ‘debating’ for him.
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Well, it looks like we have…at least temporarily…by returning the billions of dollars Congress made it pay forward into its retirement program.
I cannot understand this obsession with the notion that the United States Postal Service show a profit. We don’t ask the armed services to to show a profit and we don’t ask them to take a portion of their annual budget and pay it forward into the military pension program.
The establishment and maintenance of a national postal service is ...
Star reader David W Gallagher recently commented in the Letters to The Editor on the brouhaha about Ann Romney’s job status. He concluded:
“I find it interesting that when a poor woman seeks welfare and other aid to assist her in the raising of her children; she is described as not working and in need of a job. When a fortunate woman stays at home to raise her children, she is described as working hard.”
Right on, Mr. Gallagher.
We have begun to receive mailings from the Republican party. Three glossy campaign mailings have arrived a few days apart and were directed against Democrat Ron Barber, identifying him as nothing more than a clone of that wicked witch of the west, Nancy Pelosi.
These mailings have been reinforced by robo-calls repeating the same claims…that Barber’s policies would force people to lose their health care plans, that Cap-and-Trade would prevent 40,000 Arizona jobs from being created and tha...
Here at the Data Port we have always believed in going to the polls on election day. Over the years the Data Port Staff has never voted by mail and never voted early.
Going to the polls on election day is a way of witnessing your faith in the system. It takes a little effort but what the hell, Americans have died to preserve our right to vote and their sacrifice seems to deserve a bit more effort than tossing an envelope in the mail box. At the polling place you see your neighbors and they see y...
Mark, in his comment was perfectly correct. I suffered a mind freeze. What I had originally intended was “If The Election were Held Today, Who would you Vote For. The change has been made below.
Political parties and their candidates love it when we vote early. They lock down the votes of solid supporters and can spend their money on getting out the votes of independents and undecideds.
The early voter is immune to attack ads on his candidate. He’s voted. Even if he decides that...
Nan Stockholm Walden is out before she is in, and has announced that she won’t run for Congress in District 2 in November. Steve Farley has also withdrawn from the Congressional wars with the announcement he’s running for the state Senate instead.
What would an election be without caucuses, polls, and stout assertions of political preferences?
Here you go…the first Data Port political preference poll, this time featuring Republican candidates for Congress in the soon-to...
Democrat Ron Barber has an uncontested shot at the nomination to be the Democrats’ candidate to fill out Gabrielle Giffords’ Congressional District 8 term. He is, for this election at least, unopposed. Hence, liberal-leaning independents have the opportunity to influence the election by voting in the Republican primary.
This strategy is not an unheard of gambit…it was reported the other day that even Mitt Romney has done it. In states with closed primaries, where independents can’t...
At the heart of the Taliban’s radical islamism is the merging of the categories of citizen and true believer. The two are so closely identified that political cooperation between Sunni and Shiite is nearly impossible. See Iraq.
This baffles most of us, who can’t understand why the two groups don’t see their common interest as citizens. The reason is that the independent category of citizen has been absorbed by the category of true believer. No common faith, then no common citizenship. Co...
I have to admit I’m surprised, but apparently the Arizona Daily Star has decided that Trudeau’s current Doonesbury sequence would be just too much for the delicate sensibilities of the Christian conservatives in our midst.
It’s odd that those folks who have no hesitancy in trying to force their views on the rest of us are so tender-minded that they have to be protected against criticism by comic strip.
Perhaps the Star published an explanation for cutting this week’s Doonesbury and I mi...
I’ve been riding my single cylinder BMW thumper a lot. My sidecar outfit is in a state of disassembly, with the tub and fender removed for painting and pin-striping. What a job! Incidentally, when you’re adding wiring to your ride don’t wire for the ages. Quick disconnect hook-ups rule. But you probably knew that.
I tried driving the hack with just the frame, but every right turn flew the hack tire like a frightened bird. Fifty years of sidecar driving pretty much prepared me, but I thin...
