Arizona: Gila Courier

by David Safier The Gila Courier, a right wing blog/news site (take your pick) printed what it thought was a version of an op ed Lisa Suarez published in the Star saying people should vote for Prop 200. The version...

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

I received an e-mail today from Tucson City Councilman Rodney Glassman announcing the formation of the "Rodney Glassman U.S. Senate Exploratory Committee." "Through this committee, we intend to raise funds in order to 'test the waters' for the 2010 U.S. Senate race."

You can check out Glassman's exploratory committee web site at www.rodneyglassman.com. In case you are wondering, an exploratory committee means that Glassman does not have to resign to run under Arizona law, not that anyone is enforcing the law any longer.

It's curious timing. Could it be because the right-wing blog Gila Courier discovered his web site yesterday?

by David Safier The conservative blog Gila Courier chimes in on Trent Franks' "enemy of humanity" comment about Obama. Looks like they've got themselves a new hero. Step aside Joe Wilson, Joe (not named Joe) the Plumber (not really a...

by David Safier
OK, I'll accept the possibility that this headline from the conservative Gila Courier (which contains the wit and wisdom of Trent Humphries, who used to have his own blog, Arizona 8th) is meant as sarcasm:

TUSD teachers soft on Asian kids

But the headline comes from the basket-of-crazy wing of our political circus which has brought us Tea Parties, Birthers, Deathers, Obama-wants-to-corrupt-our-school-children, They're-building-concentration-camps-for-conservatives, Republicans-won't-get-health-care -- sorry if I left out your personal favorite -- so I have to assume that nothing is so nutty it's not meant to be taken seriously.

The subject here is a new TUSD plan addressing the issue of race in the district's schools in a number of arenas.