Who pays for John Kavanagh’s health coverage?
I’m fairly certain that Rep. John Kavanagh (R-Fountain Hills), retired police officer and member of the Scottsdale Community College faculty, enjoys great health care benefits. And because he’s a Family ValuesTM conservative and Pro-LifeTM he couldn’t care less if poor people can’t see the doctor. It’s not like they’re real people like fetuses, [...]
Buh bye for now HB2701
This afternoon the lege killed the solar jobs killing bill.
House Bill 2701 was killed two days after hearing from several solar companies, including Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd., which threatened to abandon plans to locate a factory in Goodyear.
The bill was seen as a potential showdown with the Arizona Corporation Commission, which had [...]
OH NOES!!
In a howler of a LTTE this morning, Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-LD9) beseeched readers to support HR2701.
Join me in a fight to save utility customers millions of dollars from unreasonable mandates placed on them by the Arizona Corporation Commission.
These mandates have forced electric-utility companies to charge a tariff on utility bills over and [...]
Unenforceable, eh?
The Supreme Court’s recent Citizens United decision has spurred Sec’y of State Ken Bennett and a bipartisan group of legislators to rush to put together a bill that will bring our state’s law pertaining to corporate campaign contributions into line with that decision.
The Secretary of State’s Office is proposing changes in state campaign [...]
Tom Horne, AZ Superintendent of Public Instruction, don’t know much about history.
In case y’all missed it, last Monday Horne testified before a House Education in support of HB2281. You can click on the hotlink, scroll down to testimony on the bill. About 1 hour 25 minutes in you will hear Tom Horne refer to longtime labor and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta as “a [...]
Russell Pearce hates (illegal) immigrants. Except when they want to buy guns.
So Russell Pearce has a bill, SB1102, that will get rid of concealed carry permits. We don’t need ‘em, cuz only the good guys get them anyway. Sen. Ken Cheuvront was successful in amending the bill to establish felony charges for selling or transferring firearms at a gun show without requiring buyers to prove they are [...]
Let’s fiddle with voter approved funding while the state budget burns!
Robert Robb. Ugh.
The problem dates to the passage of the Voter Protection Act in 1998, an initiative saying that what the voters have done the Legislature cannot undo. Since then, voters have approved three significant fiscal measures.
Proposition 301, passed in 2000, raised the sales tax six-tenths of a percent for earmarked education [...]