From Brahm Resnik of 12News, on AZCentral.com -
A Republican legislator is warning that the governor's proposed budget cuts would drive the state's jobless rate up to 11 percent, and says his party needs to consider tax increases to fix the budget.That kind of apostasy guarantees any Republican a primary challenge in his next election, if not outright threats of violence. Robson is from LD20, the same area that recently saw a mass resignation of officers of the local Republican Party because of threats from other Rs who thought the officers weren't *conservative* enough.
State Rep. Bob Robson of Chandler tells me on "Sunday Square Off" this weekend that Gov. Jan Brewer and lawmakers need to consider the broader impact of their cuts. Robson says communities like Flagstaff would be hit especially hard by cuts to the Medicaid system. He is the only Republican on record questioning the extent of Brewer's proposed cuts.
The former chair, Anthony Miller, had the audacity to support fellow Republican John McCain for U.S. Senate last year.
...Still continuing in Tucson is the trial of Shawna Forde, a famous and violent member of the Minutemen. She is facing murder charges is the killing of 9-year-old Brisenia Flores and her father Raul. Forde and her accomplices allegedly broke into the Flores' home and proceeded to execute them and shoot Brisenia's mother, Gina Gonzalez. After she was shot, Gonzalez pretended to be dead to avoid another bullet.
Forde and her accomplices were seeking money and drugs to steal to fund their anti-immigrant activities. They didn't find any in the Flores/Gonzalez home.
If convicted, Forde could face the death penalty. Her accomplices will be tried in March and June.
This story has been all but ignored by the mainstream media in Arizona, with a little coverage in Tucson, the home of the trial. However, even there, the main daily there, the Arizona Daily Star, has done only minimal coverage and has mostly buried what little they have done.
One of the joys of the internet is that people are no longer entirely dependent on the MSM for information about stories that the corporate masters running MSM organizations would prefer didn't exist.
...ABC News recently aired a "Candid Camera"-style segment filmed in Tucson where producers staged a situation where an actor playing a security guard harassed Hispanic-looking patrons (who were also actors). The object of the piece was to study the responses of bystanders to situations of ethnic profiling. Video here on Youtube.
Not so predictably, but heartening, was the reaction of many of the unknowing bystanders who stood up to the fake "security guard."
However, the unfortunately predictable has been the Republican response, who have uniformly denounced the piece as "false," "a hoax," and more, even though the entire story was openly presented as staged.
The best (in an ironic sort of way) of the denunciations was in a press release from Kirk Adams, the Republican Speaker of the Arizona House.
Over the course of the press release, he demands an apology and a retraction and he hits all the right wing rhetorical high points (i.e. - "East Coast media elite media") but the best part is when he referred people to a video of the piece, not at ABC News or even Youtube (where ABC News has uploaded the video), but instead to *Breibart.tv.*
The same "Breitbart" who was caught in 2009 manufacturing an actual hoax.
Denouncing as a hoaz something that was never presented as fact by referring people to someone who has been proven to present lies as fact?
Not exactly helping the credibility there, Mr. Speaker.
...Astronaut Mark Kelly, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' husband, today announced that he is resuming training to command the next flight of the space shuttle, its last. It is scheduled to launch in two months (April 19), and Kelly and the rest of us are hopeful that the recuperating Congresswoman will be able to attend the launch.
...The State Bar of Arizona has filed an 82-page complaint against former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and former assistant county attorneys Lisa Aubuchon and Rachel Alexander.
There's nothing really new in it for anyone who has been following the mess that longtime observers (not so) affectionately refer to as "business as usual" in Maricopa County, but it's nice to see Thomas et. al. move one step closer to disbarment.
Later...
1 comment:
This doesn't have to mean the end of Robson's political career. I, for one, would welcome him as a Democrat. He seemingly has more balls than many of our Democratic candidates who are absolutely terrified to talk about raising taxes. Welcome, Bob!
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