Saturday, March 9, 2024

Arizona Senate GOP Majority Leader presents an alternative to the state's Right to Contraception Act

 The age of the Bayer ad reflects Sonny's worldview.

Headline:  Arizona Mirror, 3/7/2024
One Republican’s response to questions Thursday about contraceptives highlights the challenges Hobbs and legislative Democrats face in guaranteeing the right to contraceptive access in Arizona while the GOP controls the legislative agenda. 
Sen. Sonny Borrelli, the No. 2 Republican in the state Senate, responded to a question about whether he would oppose future efforts to restrict access to emergency contraceptives by saying that women wouldn’t need contraceptives if they weren’t so promiscuous. 
“Like I said, Bayer Company invented aspirin. Put it between your knees,” he said, implying that, if women hold aspirin between their legs, they won’t be able to have sex and risk pregnancy. 
Borrelli, a Republican from Lake Havasu City, said the idea that contraceptive access is under attack is fabricated.

Related post:
Day 1005 of GOP election denier hysteria (Trump Big Lie Clown Show Circus, Arizona GOP edition).  (8/2/2023)

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Linda Heimann Secor (1948-2024) Warren Area High School class of 1966

 
1966 Dragon yearbook

1967 Warren City Directory 

1983 Warren City Directory

  • Constable Linda employee New Process h14 North Carver Street
  • Heimann Arnold F & Marian E; retired h121 North Parker St

The popularity of Linda as a baby name is graphed here.  Let's take a look at Zoe.

Source:  Social Security Administration

Zoe bounced around the lower range of the bottom of the baby names chart during the first half of the 20th century, then spent the mid portion more off than on.  She made a reappearance in 1983 and quickly zoomed into the top 100, where she has spent the past 23 years, peaking at #30 in 2012.  


 



Other members of the class of '66 (30):
2023
Robert Nelson.  (11/30)
Michael Smith.  (10/27)
Kenneth Knight.  (4/26)
Linda Johnson.  (3/23)

2022
James Gray.  (7/14)

2021
Roger Jenkins.  (1/20)
Loren Sederberg.  (3/15)

2019
Edward Houser.  (10/22)
Michael Phillips.  (6/12)

2018
Sue Ellen Strandbert Nazario.  (11/25)
Frank Chiaravalloti.  (9/21)
Howard Johnson.  (8/3)
Albert Conklin.  (4/11)
Betsy Colt Brinkley.  (3/9)

2017
Deborah Snyder Sproveri.  (8/8)

2015
Sally Johnson Horrocks.  (4/3)

2014
Charlene Postlethwait Knowlton. (10/8)
Dennis Peterson.  (8/31)

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Hey, hey, there's gonna be a showdown in Ottawa County, Michigan

 
Photo credits:  Ottawa County
Headline:  mlive, 3/8/2024
Love it or hate it, Ottawa Impact is shaping up to be the focal point for elections this year in Republican-dominated Ottawa County.
Several controversial decisions by commissioners in the last 14 months brought high publicity, high criticism and even court drama -- all in a county typically known more for its beautiful Lake Michigan beaches, a bountiful blueberry crop, farmland and generally good schools. 
At many times, spectators packed into the county board room. Sometimes, meetings stretched on for hours as dozens took the opportunity to speak for up to three minutes during public comment. 
Northrup wants to see less controversy. 
He is among 10 people not currently serving on the board who have filed, so far, to run in what is expected to be a hotly contested election for county board seats.

"There's Gonna Be a Showdown" by Archie Bell & the Drells" debuted at #87 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending 12/18/1968.  It spent 11 weeks on the chart, peaking at #21 for 2 weeks.



Related posts:
March 2024

February 2024 
Chris Vander Sys challenges Ottawa Impact whackjob Gretchen Cosby for seat on Michigan's Ottawa County Board.  (2/21)

January 2024

2023


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Day 1227 of GOP election denier hysteria (Trump Big Lie Clown Show Circus, MAGA Michigan power couple edition)

 
ATTACK Of the Clown Show zombies
Starring Michigan MAGA power couple
Matt and Meshawn Maddock
Headline:  Michigan Advance, 3/7/2024
The report also took notice of state Rep. Matt Maddock (R-Milford), pointing out that he traveled to Washington, D.C.,and attended a Stop the Steal rally on Jan. 5, 2021. Maddock and his wife, former Michigan Republican Party co-Chair Meshawn Maddock, organized buses for people from Michigan to attend the Jan. 6 protests in Washington, D.C. that resulted in the storming of the U.S. Capitol later that day. 
The couple also attempted to deliver fake elector ballots to the Michigan Capitol building on Dec. 14, 2020, while the state’s legal electors for President Joe Biden met to cast their legitimate ballots. It was part of an alleged scheme for which Meshawn Maddock and 14 others were charged and are awaiting trial.

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Day 1137 (Donald Trump)
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Day 1165 (Liz Harrington)
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Day 1174 (Sandra Merchant)
Day 1176 (Carlos Ayala)
Day 1177 (Mark Robinson)
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Day 1182 (Debbie Kouzounas)
Day 1183 (Marylyn Todd)
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Day 1191 (Terpsehore Maras)
Day 1192 (Anthony Kern)
Day 1193 (Russ Andrews)
Day 1194 (Ron Hanks)
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Day 1196 (Wendy Rogers)
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Day 1202 (Heather Honey)
Day 1206 (Chuck Gray)
Day 1207 (Wendy Rogers)
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Day 1211 (Max Burns)
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Day 1218 (Michael Sparks)
Day 1219 (Justin Heap)
Day 1220 (Lisa Michaud)
Day 1221 (Jake Hoffman)
Day 1222 (Tina Peters)
Day 1223 (Jim Troupis/Kenneth Chesebro)
Day 1224 (Mike Lindell)
Day 1225 (Tina Peters)
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Cruising the entire length of the Pleasant View Road reconstruction, Madison/Middleton WI

 
Screenshots and video by Retiring Guy











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September cruise.  (9/14/2023)
September cruise.  (9/30/2023)
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GET ME REWRITE: MAGA Looney Tunes in Gillespie County Texas leads to long night of hand-counting votes

 
Photo credit:  Gillespie County GOP

Votebeat Texas, 3/6/2024
Bruce Campbell, chairman of the Gillespie County Republican Party, predicted that results from the 13 GOP precincts would start trickling into the county elections office by 8:30 p.m. 
By 9:30 p.m., he expressed surprise that none had returned. 
Shortly after, he informed county Elections Director Jim Riley it might be hours before workers finished hand counting the thousands of early and mailed ballots — a task they’d begun at 7:30 that morning in a glass-walled tasting room at a winery called The Resort at Fredericksburg. 
“Are you kidding me?” Riley said. 
Campbell wasn’t kidding, or even hedging. In the end, the counting took all night long. 
At 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, Gillespie County Republicans completed hand counting more than 8,000 ballots, following through on a decision the county party made months ago amid a statewide push led by individuals who have promoted some of the wildest election conspiracy theories since the 2020 election. 
Gillespie County Republicans decided to hand-count primary ballots even though experts agree, and studies show the method is time-consuming, costly, less accurate, and less secure than using machines.

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Cruising the grounds of the former Holy Name Seminary, Madison WI


Screenshots and video by Retiring Guy



Location:  702 South High Point Road in Madison, Wisconsin.

Dates of construction:  1962-64

Architectural style:  Neo-classical

Size of site:  9.9 acres, primarily open green space

Buildings (5):  seminary, garage, convent, concession stand, and athletic fields. 

Current use:  Offices of the Madison Archdiocese.   Remodeled in 1998 for this purpose..

The above information is found at National Register of Historic Places Registration Form.  The renderings and photos below are from the same source.










Other cruising posts:
2024
March

February

January

2023
September-November
Cruising Vietnam War Veterans Memorial Highway in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.  (9/6)

July
Cruising from Warren Area High School to East Fifth and Redwood in Warren PA.  (7/27)

June
Cruising Riverside Cemetery, on the National Register of Historic Places, in Oshkosh Wisconsin.  (6/25)Cruising around the block at Waupun Correctional Institution, Wisconsin.  (6/17)

2022

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