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Visit the Democrats of Greater TucsonUPDATED 3/22: TheDGT.org Visits With Our Democratic Candidates for Arizona Corporation Commission – Nominate Them Now!
UPDATED 3/22: We are in the home stretch, folks. It is the final week to collection nomination signatures and we urgently need to get our ACC candidates on the ballot! Any Democrat or independent in the state of Arizona can nominate our three candidates in the E-Qual system. So grab your driver license or voter … Read more
UPDATED 3/22: Flip the Legislature! Sign E-Qual to put Stacey Seaman on the Ballot in LD16. See Tracey’s Interview with Mike Bryan!
Stacey Seaman of Casa Grande announced she is running as a Democrat for the state Senate seat in Legislative District 16, a key battleground district in Arizona. Here’s our TheDGT.org/BlogForArizona interview with Stacey! “With only one week until the deadline to file Stacey’s signatures, we are in a time crunch. It’s incredibly important that we … Read more
Leading Arizona Democrats Offer Their Views on the United States Supreme Court Hearing the Case Regarding the Abortion Drug Mifepristone
Many political leaders across the United States paid attention, with much interest, to the oral arguments at the United States Supreme Court yesterday (March 26, 2024) as the Super Majority Conservative judicial body considered petitioners’ arguments to curtail the easy accessibility and delivery of the FDA approved abortion drug mifepristone. A ruling favoring the petitioners … Read more
Kari Lake Plays the Victim Even as She Admits She Maliciously Lied About Recorder Stephen Richer and the 2022 Election
#LyingLoserLake just can’t help but shamelessly lie, deflect, play the victim, and smear her political opponents with coded racist slurs. She has filed a motion to default in her defense of Maricopa Recorder Stephen Richer’s defamation lawsuit against her for her provable lies about him and his administration during the 2022 election. In her motion, … Read more
Tom Horne Overrules His Own ESA Director, Persuading the Arizona Department of Education to Put Off Changes to the Private School Voucher Handbook
Perhaps feeling the pressure from election denier Jake Hoffman and the semi-rally he was holding at the State Capitol along with private school voucher zealots, protesting proposed changes to the Empowerment Scholarship Account handbook, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne overruled the efforts of his ESA Executive Director John Ward and persuaded the state … Read more
Photo gallery of 2024 Tucson Japanese Festival
After a 3 year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, our Southern Arizona Japanese Cultural Coalition (of which I am the Editor of the website) decided to host our annual Tucson Japanese Festival once again at the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center (1288 W. River Rd.), on March 23, 2024. We had previously hosted this as … Read more
Arizonans Amanda Shelley and Steve Gomez Describe How the Affordable Care Act Has Helped Them and Their Families.
As President Biden remarked to then-President Obama at the White House following the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA,) “this is a big f—king deal.” And it still is. For 14 years, the ACA, or Obamacare, or Romney Care before the one-time Republican Massachusetts Governor and current Utah Senator disowned his health care plan … Read more
Wage Gap and Reproductive Rights
March 12, right in the middle of Women’s History Month and four days after International Women’s Day, was Equal Pay Day. Women must work until March 12 to catch up to what white men were paid by December 31, 2023. Women are still paid 78% of white men’s pay, with little change seen since the … Read more
UPDATED 3/24: Meet LD17 Candidate John McLean at TheDGT.org This Monday at Noon!
UPDATE 3/24: Meet John at TheDGT.org’s Monday Zoom on March 25th! Register to attend now! With a famed Bruce Willis’s “Die Hard” name and the looks of Bill Nye, the Science Guy, Arizona Legislative District (LD17) State Senate Candidate John McLean believes “in true public service, where legislators put the community’s interests above their own.” That would … Read more