On last night’s episode of AZPM’s AZ Illustrated Politics: Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce President Lea Marquez-Peterson and former state lawmakers Jonathan Paton and Paula Aboud joined host Jim Nintzel to discuss the Senate’s work on immigration reform; the push to expand background checks on gun sales; how Gov. Jan Brewer’s call for Medicaid expansion has slowed budget negotiations at the Arizona Legislature; a push to criminalize the bulk delivery of early ballots; and Bisbee’s decision to recognize same-sex civil unions.

This article appears in Apr 4-10, 2013.

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5 replies on “AZ Illustrated Politics: Immigration Reform, Background Checks, Election Law Changes & More”

  1. So…the HISPANIC Chamber is named. Try starting a Caucasian Chamber. Won’t go far, at least not in this city. You say, the Hispanic Chamber was just created in response to the fact that hispanics were not being accepted to the regular chamber? So, I reply, this is about reparations! And, of course, it is.

    I saw Jimmy Smits years ago on the Latin Emmy Awards say something like, “Support your fellow latino and latina actors.” “Yes,” thought I, “But what if they are lousy actors?
    Should you support them merely for the color of their skin?” I guess answer is yes and I’d also wager that MLK is turning over in his grave.

  2. @ Dan Starr
    Wouldn’t you be happier reading and commenting with like-minded folk at the AZ Daily “Independent?”
    Your comments here might hurt your business, whereas at the Independent you might actually gain some customers.

  3. I notice no attack on the content of my comment, just a thinly-disguised attack on me personally via my business. Go ahead and dispute the content, however, I doubt you can. Not going anywhere, for which I could be sorry, but I’m not.

  4. So it’s not OK for Italian Americans to have their own club, or Catholic American Vets to have the Knights of Columbus? Or Jews to have the JCC? Or the Arizona Polish Club whose “purpose is to preserve and perpetuate Polish culture and its customs..?”

    Or is it just Latinos who can’t form their own advocacy groups?

  5. Spoken so well Pima Mujer !
    The only thinly disguised attack is that coming from a tired old xenophobic fear of non-English speaking people which is falsely portrayed as a defense of American values.
    Nativism is not True American nationalism but rather false racism hiding behind Old Glory.
    Leonard Clark
    The Damn Liberal
    4-8-13

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