They can’t complain about “extremism” when they don’t bother to show up in the face of it
This past Monday the AZ Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on SB1474, the “guns on campus” bill, which would allow concealed weapons to be carried on Arizona college campuses. My dear friend Jennifer Longdon testified against it. She had expected to get 5 minutes to speak but it was shortened to 3 minutes due [...]
Time to admit it: Anti-contraception hyperventilating is all about sex
Those of us who have paid attention to anti-choice politics for years have been warning everyone that they are after birth control in addition to legalized abortion but some alleged “liberals” (looking at you, EJ Dionne and Chris Matthews) still refuse to accept it. The right wing freak out about mandated birth control coverage in [...]
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, [...]
Yep, it is shaping up to be a busy week.
Union stripping, Clean Elections gutting, and allowing guns on college campuses are on the Capitol agenda for the week of February 6th. Lots of folks are planning press events and protests of the heinous bills but I wanted to make sure y’all know about, and try to go if you can make it, to a [...]
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 [...]
They can keep their “charity” if that’s how it’s going to be.
Conservatives often tell me they are more altruistic than liberals, touting surveys showing that conservatives donate more to charity and volunteer more often. I’ve always been skeptical of those claims because a lot of it is tithing and participating in church activities, which I don’t consider charity except to the extent that they are actually [...]
