Arizona Republicans seek to increase the welfare rolls
From yesterday’s East Valley Tribune:
With state finances evaporating, Gov. Jan Brewer is moving to help those with needs get their services from church and nonprofit groups.
In an executive order Tuesday, Brewer created a 20-member task force to coordinate volunteer efforts statewide. The panel also will look for ways to both inform people of the services [...]
Trent Franks.
By now I’m sure y’all are aware of his recent comment:
FRANK: In this country, we had slavery for God knows how long. And now we look back on it and we say “How brave were they? What was the matter with them? You know, I can’t believe, you know, four million slaves. This is incredible.” [...]
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 [...]
If medical profiling is good enough for the ladies of Oklahoma, it’s good enough for the ladies of Arizona. But not for the men.
I called it! Last year when Oklahoma passed a creepy law that required abortion providers to release personal details about patients, which would be published and available to the public, I had an uneasy feeling that Arizona’s wingnuts in the lege would be following suit. I was right and there are two bills [...]