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As he steered his Straight Talk Express across the United States in recent weeks, Republican Sen. John McCain has tried to stay a-head of the immigration issue. But Friday the immigration issue delivered 36 or so heads to his Phoenix office — heads of lettuce, that is.

McCain has been getting skewered in the media for comments earlier this month to a union group in Washington, D.C., that immigrants are taking jobs no one else wants, and offered them $50 an hour to pick lettuce in the Arizona sun for a summer, suggesting they couldn't do it.

The senator didn't stick around long enough to process any applications, despite several offers to take him up on his offer from the audience.

So Friday more than three dozen demonstrators showed up at his office, many carrying lettuce picker applications in one hand, and a head of lettuce in the other to show they could do the job.

McCain was not on hand to greet them, but somehow it's probably not the kind of green he was hoping to collect for his budding presidential bid.

Searching for a way to advance their cause of the garbage fee, Councilwomen Nina Trasoff and Karin Uhlich set their sights on giving relief to snowbirds who pay the garbage fee when they're out of town because they don't want to turn off their water and kill their plants that are on a drip system.

Uhlich's "intelligent growth" subcommittee considered a $4 reduction for the snowbirds who are in dire financial straits, owning two houses and all.

The only problem was it left the rest of the ratepayers — 30 percent of whom could qualify for financial assistance — to pick up the tab for those two-house-owning snowbirds who are stretched so thin.

Not such a winning issue for the two populists who campaigned hard that the $14-a-month fee disproportionately hurt the poor. They quietly let the issue die.

It would be understandable if Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Harris made getting tough on crime a part of his campaign, what with his Scottsdale campaign office getting broken into and all last week.

Harris pledged, in a press release, to work with police to track down the "ruthless criminals" and "bring them to justice."

He said it appeared nothing was taken during the break-in, but someone had turned on and accessed his computer.

But Harris said he won't be deterred by the burglary and "will continue to argue for a tougher approach on illegal immigration."

The city's Rio Nuevo bill — which would inject an extra $1 billion into the city's Downtown — that is stuck in the Senate made it past the Senate's Rules Committee this week.

Although bills that are constitutional usually sail through the committee, the city had a tough time getting it on the committee's agenda. But now it has passed.

Onto the Senate floor it goes.