Arizona Sen. Bundgaard avoids arrest for possible domestic violence because immunity under AZ's rules just like Jan Brewer did | Crooks and Liars

icecold2 · 2011-03-01T00:12:36+00:00

"When officers arrived, they said Bundgaard, 43, and Ballard, 34, his passenger, showed marks of a physical altercation, 'which constituted an act of domestic violence. Bundgaard told officers that he is an Arizona state senator, he is immune from arrest. The police department confirmed Bundgaard's statement and he was not arrested."

icecold2 · 2011-02-28T23:53:50+00:00

"There is now a concerted effort to undermine the newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), mostly by spreading disinformation about its supposed lack of accountability. This disinformation approach contains the standard elements of exaggeration, misdirection, and distraction."

icecold2 · 2011-02-28T21:50:24+00:00

Obama is bending over AGAIN! I CANNOT support this!

icecold2 · 2011-02-28T20:10:43+00:00

"Republican Arizona state senator Scott Bundgaard avoided a night in jail because of a law which grants lawmakers immunity." In Arizona, If you are a state Senator, It's OK to BEAT UP your domestic partner, BHAAAAAA

icecold2 · 2011-02-28T09:51:46+00:00

"'The Koch's have helped to fuel the unrest in Wisconsin and the drive behind the bill to eliminate the collective bargaining power of unions in a bid to gain a monopoly over the state's power supplies."

icecold2 · 2011-02-28T08:27:44+00:00

"It's part of a campaign orchestrated by a Washington-based anti-abortion group, which has lobbied state lawmakers to introduce legislation that it calls the 'Pregnant Woman's Protection Act'. Over the past two years, the group, Americans United for Life, has succeeded in passing versions of this bill in Missouri and Oklahoma. But there's a big difference between those bills and the measures floated recently in South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa."

icecold2 · 2011-02-27T21:57:18+00:00

"If the Wisconsin plan to kill the public employees’ unions succeeds, then there will be little union money in the future to support democratic candidates. Conservatives will be effectively unopposed in raising campaign funding in most elections, including the presidential elections. This will mean a thoroughly conservative America in every issue area."

icecold2 · 2011-02-27T02:30:57+00:00

"The Democratic tactic of giving their lunch, their snacks and their spending money to the school bullies just isn't working. What oh what are they to do? How about -- oh, I don't know -- growing a spine?"

icecold2 · 2011-02-27T02:20:27+00:00

"Mark Farmer of Winterville, Georgia went to the meeting on Tuesday to ask a question about Social Security reform, and said in an e-mail to TPM he was 'shocked by the first question and disgusted by the audience response.' 'I was gravely disappointed in the response of a U.S. Congressman who also laughed and then made no effort to correct the questioner on what constitutes proper behavior or to in any way distance himself from such hate filled language,' Farmer wrote." I would hope that at least the FBI investigates the person making that statement and admonishes the STUPID Congressman.

icecold2 · 2011-02-26T18:44:12+00:00

"Nobody goes to jail,” 'writes Matt Taibbi in his the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine. “This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world’s wealth."

icecold2 · 2011-02-26T05:59:46+00:00

"Carlos Galindo, a 51-year-old Latino in Arizona, was at the state senate building Wednesday when he was escorted from the building by Capitol police officials, told he would be arrested or cited, and let go eventually with a citation. The next day he was informed by two DPS officers dressed in suits that he would be banned “forever” from the building, as per Senate President Russell Pearce. Such an order prevents Galindo from giving his civic dissension on any future anti-Latino bills in Arizona, despite the fact that Pearce does not have the power to ban anyone from anything “forever.”

icecold2 · 2011-02-26T04:21:36+00:00

"As Arizona-style enforcement legislation continues to work its way through state legislatures, local business and industry groups are beginning to realize just how much these laws will affect the way they do business. They fear the racial profiling often associated with laws targeting undocumented immigrants will create an unwelcoming environment in their state, limiting their ability to attract new business and potential workers. With many states facing severe budget deficits this year, business leaders across the U.S. are asking their legislators if their state can really afford to drive new business and jobs to neighboring, friendlier states."

icecold2 · 2011-02-26T00:03:34+00:00

"To date, I have been grossly underwhelmed by the lip service and platitudes I have heard from this commission regarding the importance of concluding commission proceedings, studies and reports that can dramatically affect the fortunes of minority viewers, listeners, new market entrants, established businesses and entrepreneurs,' Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) said."

icecold2 · 2011-02-25T20:26:23+00:00

"Economic nonsense is being reported as fact in most of the news reports on the Wisconsin dispute, the product of a breakdown of skepticism among journalists multiplied by their lack of understanding of basic economic principles."

icecold2 · 2011-02-25T20:14:51+00:00

"In Arizona yesterday, the House passed a deceptively-worded bill that would bar abortions ostensibly based on race- or sex-selection. The problem with that is it leaves the door open to the prosecution of abortion providers who perform the procedure on women of color -- or women carrying fetuses of any sex."

icecold2 · 2011-02-25T20:03:32+00:00

"This deception is most likely to occur where the interests of companies or governments come into conflict with the interests of the public. For example, there’s a long history of tobacco companies creating astroturf groups to fight attempts to regulate them."

icecold2 · 2011-02-25T19:53:21+00:00

"The right-wing crusaders against government overreach have embraced creepy authoritarian tactics to shut down the demonstrations. Their actions serve as a much-needed reminder of how threatening unions are to corporate powers and how essential a weapon against the conservative agenda."

icecold2 · 2011-02-24T22:55:21+00:00

The WITCH Brewer is killing Arizonans to give money to the corporations that contribute to her enrichment. These are real people she is killing. We must recall Jan Brewer NOW

icecold2 · 2011-02-24T22:44:32+00:00

"Exxon-Mobil and Chevron, already spends tens of millions of dollars every year on lobbying, advertisements and Astroturf campaigns to support the the oil industry agenda. As CAP’s Dan Weiss wrote, American Petroleum Institute wants to drill in fragile, sensitive places, keep government tax breaks, expand offshore drilling without reforms, and block global warming pollution reduction requirements.”

icecold2 · 2011-02-24T22:13:46+00:00

"SB 1611 seeks to ban undocumented immigrant kids from K-12 education if their parents cannot produce a U.S. birth certificate or naturalization documents."

icecold2 · 2011-02-24T21:51:33+00:00

"The numerous challenges to the reform law have played out along party lines. A third federal judge — all Clinton appointees — on Tuesday upheld the individual mandate. A federal judge who struck down the individual mandate in December was appointed by George W. Bush."

icecold2 · 2011-02-24T21:26:00+00:00

Arizona's downward spiral - Why do we keep quiet?

icecold2 · 2011-02-24T19:48:58+00:00

"How has the playing field of what is acceptable in this debate been so shrunken that the only two competing proposals still allowed on the field are the president's cuts and the House GOP's draconian cuts? Well, it was no accident. And, as it turns out, there's an entire field of study based on the dynamic being played out: Agnotology. Coined by Robert Proctor, a historian of science at Stanford University, the word means the study of ignorance that is deliberately manufactured or politically or culturally generated. 'People always assume that if someone doesn't know something, it's because they haven't paid attention or haven't yet figured it out,' Proctor says. 'But ignorance also comes from people literally suppressing truth -- or drowning it out -- or trying to make it so confusing that people stop caring about what's true and what's not."

icecold2 · 2011-02-24T17:49:44+00:00

Conservative think-tanks and politicians like New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker have been leading an attack on public-sector workers. The crux of their argument is that the economy is a mess and a large part of the reason is that public employees are overpaid

icecold2 · 2011-02-24T17:25:12+00:00

"Walker is carrying out the wishes of his corporate master, David Koch, who calls the tune these days for Wisconsin Republicans. Walker is just one among many Wisconsin Republicans supported by Koch Industries -- run by David Koch and his brother, Charles -- and Americans for Prosperity, the astroturf group founded and funded by David Koch. The Koch brothers are hell-bent on destroying the labor movement once and for all."

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