The specious sob stories behind the attack on Clean Elections
Yesterday the Arizona Senate Judiciary Committee moved SCR 1021 forward, which would put a referendum to overturn Clean Elections on the ballot. It would be called, misleadingly, the “No Taxpayer Subsidies for Political Campaigns Act”. Polling shows that public support for Clean Elections is high but the impetus for getting rid of it comes from [...]
AZ Legislature is making personal medical decisions for us ladies, yet again.
Rep. Kimberly Yee (R-West Phoenix) introduced a anti-abortion bill yesterday. Unlike Sen. Steve Smith’s “personhood” bill, this one doesn’t declare a fertilized egg a legal human being. Yee’s bill requires similar intrusive “informed consent” hurdles before a woman can get an abortion procedure but also bans abortion after 20 weeks. The bill should pass easily, [...]
Looking back on a good week.
Next week is going to be a humdinger for Arizona progressives in terms of the bad legislation on the agenda but this past week ended on a couple of positive notes and I think we should take a moment to appreciate them. 1. Komen/Planned Parenthood smackdown. Supporters of comprehensive (and that includes reproductive) women’s health [...]
Not that it will stop the Republicans here from passing more discriminatory anti-voting laws
Per Campus Progress: O’Keefe’s video shows individuals in polling stations throughout New Hampshire attempting to vote using the name of recently deceased persons in this week’s primary election. While his video shows smooth-sailing for every attempt, the reality is that the actions were so suspicious, they prompted a voting supervisor to call the police. Before [...]
Cheuvront Shaking Down the Competition
OK, it’s been a while – I don’t usually feel the need to write because Donna writes so beautifully. But who can help herself when faced with this oh-so-mature rejoinder from Ken Cheuvront (running in a primary for Senate in the new LD 24 against Rep. Katie Hobbs) and how he’s forcing a Democratic primary [...]
Congratulations, Senator Lujan
Statement from David Lujan on Board of Supervisors’ Appointment to Arizona Senate Lujan vows to advance forward-thinking, inclusive vision for Arizona PHOENIX – “I’m grateful for the opportunity to complete the term of my former seatmate, Kyrsten Sinema, and look forward to fighting harder than ever before for the forward-thinking, inclusive values that the voters [...]
Republican welfare recipients and their hypocrisy
Governor Jan Brewer was under federal investigation in 2010 for possibly improperly receiving Social Security disability benefits for her son Ronald, who was found to be not guilty by reason of insanity for raping a woman at knifepoint in 1989. Ronald wasn’t supposed to be getting SSDI after 1995 but investigators suspected Governor Brewer might [...]
