Above: Remember this from 2015? It was all a Big Lie. The Arizona Constitution requires the state legislature to enact a state budget before the start of the new fiscal year on July 1. In addition, the legislature really only had two priorites to address this year: (1) the school funding cliff that the last … Read more
We have to take a trip with Mr. Peabody and Sherman in the WAYBAC machine to 2018 when this case first went to court (filed in 2017). School capital funding case goes to court, Governor Ducey only offers pennies on the dollar of what is actually owed: The other day I pointed out that Governor … Read more
Thanks to all the federal pandemic relief aid provided to Arizona by Congress, which Gov. Ducey and the GQP-controlled legislature want to redirect to corporations and their wealthy campaign contributors in yet another unwarranted tax cut – in direct defiance of the express prohibition in the federal legislation that it be used to backfill budget … Read more
Above: Classic David Fitzsimmons cartoon, still true after all these years. Michael Bryan posted on Tuesday, Arizona House Passes Resolution to Waive the AEL and Prevent the #AZFiscalCliff for AZ’s Schools: Today, 17 Republicans joined all 28 present Democrats to pass HCR 2039. Now the spotlight turns to the AZ Senate to pass the matching … Read more
Poor J.D. Mesnard. The former Arizona State House Speaker and current Senator from Legislative District 17 was clearly the odd man out on a four-man panel gathered by Luige Del Puerto of the Arizona Capitol Times to discuss the Republican proposed budget that includes a 2.5 percent flat tax. The other panelists were: House Democratic … Read more