Paula Deen: “I feel like ‘embattled’ or ‘disgraced’ will always follow my name. It’s like that black football player who recently came out.” For true.
Derp-tastic fact check on whether Arizona anti-gay bill is discriminatory edited from “true” to “somewhat true, somewhat false.”
Okay, I’ve been going on for the last few days about the academy and isolation from public life. But, holy crap, here’s a Brown Graduate student who got the NRA kicked out of Rhode Island in his third year in the program!
Conservative group that crafted SB 1062 reacts to Gov. Brewer’s veto.
Live video of Gov. Jan Brewer’s announcement on the state’s “religious freedom” bill. Watch.
We’re not in the predictions business, so I’m loathe to guess what Jan Brewer will do, but I think it’s safe to say most people watching this closely will be stunned if she doesn’t veto the bill.
The timing of this announcement suggests as much. We were expecting the announcement to come Thursday. Doing it today, relatively late in the day even by Arizona time, suggests that the damage to the state and her reputation were becoming too great to delay the decision any longer.
It’s almost as if the NFL looking for a backup site for next year’s Super Bowl was the final straw.
Via Twitter, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has announced that she’ll be making a statement on Senate Bill 1062 at 7:45 p.m. ET:
As Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer decides whether to veto her legislature’s anti-gay bill, the drip, drip, drip continues. Major League Baseball has now responded to the Arizona bill by condemning discrimination based on sexual orientation, and the NFL is reportedly looking at a backup site for next year’s Super Bowl. Tampa, the the runner-up to be the host city, is apparently the leading choice for a Plan B. Perhaps it was just a coincidence that Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) publicly said today that he would veto a bill like Arizona’s.
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce comes out hard against Georgia’s version of Arizona anti-gay bill.