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 [...]
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 [...]
Personhood has come to Arizona!
Okay, people, did I not tell you the other day that being vigilant about reproductive justice is important? Personhood has reared its head in Arizona. 2010 was the year Arizona voters lost their damn minds and sent a bunch of reactionary whackaloons to the Arizona Legislature, essentially to show that Kenyan Usurper in the White [...]
Did Governor Brewer even know what her “biography” said about the meeting with the President in 2010?
Per WaPo Politics: “He didn’t feel that I had treated him cordially” in the book, Brewer explained to reporters Wednesday. “I said to him that I have all the respect in the world for the office of the president. The book is what the book is. I asked him if he read the book. He [...]
ALEC put the jackboot down on a reporter. But nothing to see here. Move along.
I had been swapping newspaper stories with Olivia Ward of the Toronto Star on one of the saloon’s overstuffed leather couches as the bar filled with attendees of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) 2011 States and Nation Policy Summit (SNPS). ALEC had repeatedly refused to grant me media credentials. Nevertheless, I was a paying [...]
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 [...]
What if AZ GOP legislators were expected to follow the state party platform?
Today’s Yellow Sheet had an odd tidbit about recently de-Senatorized Russell Pearce. At this month’s Arizona Republican Party mandatory meeting, state committeemen will have the chance to return Pearce to an elected post. The former senator is one of two people running for first vice chair of the party, along with Diane Ortiz-Parsons, a veteran [...]
