Who are they wearing? THE UNION LABEL.
Related: PoliticusUSA: Top 10 Ways to Get MSM to Attend Your U.S. Political Protest. (h/t Heather)
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Fox News employee and Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee said Sunday that President Barack Obama's decision not to defend key parts of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was actually alienating his African American base.
In a Wednesday statement, Attorney General Eric Holder wrote, "the President and I have concluded that classifications based on sexual orientation warrant heightened scrutiny and that, as applied to same-sex couples legally married under state law, Section 3 of DOMA is unconstitutional."
Fox News' Chris Wallace talked with Huckabee about the decision Sunday.
"You say that that could destroy the president," Wallace noted. "Isn't that over the top?"
"No," Huckabee replied. "He alieniated the African American community. Overwhelmingly, they support traditional marriages more than Hispanics and more than whites."
"Within the white community it's about 56 percent, 65 percent in the Hispanic, 75 in the African American community," he explained.
"He said he believes that it's unconstitutional," Wallace pointed out.
"He said that because some lower court decided a part of DOMA was unconstitutional, that he would not enforce it," Huckabee countered. "By that logic, then he should not try to implement Obamacare because some lower courts already decided that it is unconstitutional. That's hypocritical."
"It's hypocritical and it's dishonest because when he ran for president, Chris, he said that he supported traditional marriage. He is on the record. Now, the question is, was he dishonest then, is he dishonest now or did he change his view? And if he did, when and why?"
In fact, White House press secretary Jay Carney explained Wednesday that Obama's views on gay marriage were separate and distinct from this decision.
"I don't think that what he is doing is constitutional," the Republican presidential candidate added. "If a president begins to decide which pieces of the law he will choose to support or endorse or enforce, based on a lower court decision, not because it is actually bubbled up to a final adjudication, that is an unusual precedent for a president to take."
Wallace quickly pointed out that Huckabee had his facts confused. The Obama administration said that while the discriminatory law would no longer be defended in court, it would be still be enforced.
"It's really the same thing," Huckabee insisted. "He has decided that this is a part of the law he doesn't like so he is not going to recognize it. I don't think a president in the executive branch can thumb his nose at a branch of government that is incomplete in its assessment of the law."
It's good to be a politician in Arizona.
Scott Bundgaard, the Majority Leader of the Arizona State Senate, was briefly taken into custody on suspicion of domestic violence Friday but was released because he was immune to arrest under rules of the Arizona State Constitution.
Aubry Ballard, who Phoenix police said is his girlfriend and was involved in a fight with Bundgaard, was arrested on one count of assault.
Bundgaard, R-Peoria, and Ballard had minor injuries, said Phoenix police Sgt. Tommy Thompson.
Thompson said police responded to a call at about 11:20 p.m. Friday of a man pulling a woman out of a gold vehicle, which was stopped northbound next to the median on Arizona 51, just south of Cactus Road.
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," Thompson said. After being taken into custody, Bundgaard told officers that because he is an Arizona state senator, he is immune from arrest. Thompson said the department confirmed Bundgaard's statement and he was not arrested...read on
So his girlfriend gets arrested and he gets a pass. Did you know that Gov. Jan Brewer also used this rule to her advantage in 1988 over an alcohol-related car crash?
On May 4, 1988, a car driven by Brewer rear-ended a van on Interstate 17.
The van's driver, William Holland, was not injured in the crash. Brewer also emerged unscathed, though there was significant damage to her car.
DPS officers at the scene believed Brewer was intoxicated. Unsteady on her feet, her breath smelling of alcohol, Brewer failed a series of field sobriety tests.
Brewer was placed in handcuffs and taken to a DPS station, where she was supposed to undergo a test to determine her blood-alcohol level. But no test was ever performed. After a discussion with a DPS lieutenant, two officers drove Brewer home.
--The DPS, after learning that Brewer was a state senator, told her that she had immunity from arrest. No charges were filed in the case. Brewer, who says she remembers the crash vividly, maintains that she was not impaired.
Brewer told different stories about what led to the crash. She told officers on the scene that a car had rear-ended her, pushing her car into Holland's, and then driven away.
But officers found no damage to the back of Brewer's car, and they noted that a layer of dust on the bumper was undisturbed.
The next day, Brewer told the Phoenix Gazette that a white truck had swerved in front of Holland, suggesting that he had suddenly braked.
"I guess I might have been following too closely or something," she said at the time.
Wow, she changed her story a few times. AZ Central concludes that:
It appears that officers were right not to arrest Brewer while lawmakers were in session. But it is unclear why officers did not complete their investigation and pursue charges.
Under the law she was released, but should have been investigated at a later time. And Brewer as Governor also helped ease restrictions in Arizona against the sale of alcohol on Sunday's.
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You can help out in Wisconsin, wherever you are. Call now, (608) 266-1212. Be polite, be thorough, and tell him all your clues!
Do you do impressions? Ask to speak to Chief-of-Staff Keith Gilkes, he'll get a big kick out of those!
Call it online tele-activism, satirical crowdsourcing, narrative-driven post-organizing...or maybe it's just trolling to tie up the Governor's valuable phone lines. Whatevs.
Don't make it your only contribution to the union cause, make it one of them. Those ringing phones can be one more reminder to that Governor--and all union-bustin', State Senator-houndin', ultimatum-givin' Governors in the country--labor is not only organized and ready, it has folks who can gum up their office in creative, fun, (polite, always polite), relentless ways.
Let us know in the comments if you call, how long your conversation lasted, and what your sighting was.
And stay vigilant. Clues are everywhere.
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