Let’s Spread Democracy event

by Carolyn Classen, blogger Event by League of Women Voters of Greater Tucson MSA Annex Duration: 4 hr Public  · Anyone on or off Facebook Join LWVGT as we spread democracy this 4th of July! Now more than ever it is important to remind all of what is at stake. Once gone, democracy will be so much harder … Read more

GOP Candidates Parrot Trump’s Attacks On The News Media

One of the hallmarks of an authoritarian regime is to attack independent media and to replace it with state-run media. No one has been more relentless in attacking the news media than the demamgogue Donald Trump. First Amendment Watch reports, The Alarming Rise in Verbal and Physical Threats to the Press: “[T]he animosity towards the … Read more

US Constitution

Heads Up: The Con-Con is Coming

US Constitution

 

For years Tea Partiers have been pushing for a Constitutional Convention (AKA Con-Con) for a balanced budget and more.

The Con-Con has passed the Arizona House of Representatives several times, but stalled in the Senate. This year there are four Con-Con bills on the agenda for the Federalism, Property Rights and Public Policy Committee on Tuesday, January 31.

HCR2010 (Townsend) declares that the Arizona Legislature wants a Constitutional Convention. (Concurrent resolution with the Senate.)

HCR2006 (Thorpe) includes a wish list of changes to the Constitution. (Concurrent resolution with the Senate.)

HCR2013 (Mesnard) calls for a Constitutional Convention for a federal balanced budget. (Concurrent resolution with the Senate.)

HB2226 (Mesnard) also calls for a Constitutional Convention for a federal balanced budget and includes details of the balanced budget. (House only bill.)

In previous years, the Con-Con bills were stopped at the door of the Senate by former Senate President Andy Biggs, who resigned the Legislature to run for Congress. Biggs is so opposed to the Con-Con that he wrote a book about it– The Con of the Con-Con.

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Dear AZ Lege, Separation of Church & State is in the US Constitution

by Pamela Powers Hannley "Amid a discussion of the Bible and the Promised Land, the state House voted Tuesday to let Arizonans vote next year on whether they want to be able to challenge the federal government," reported the Capitol Media Services in the Arizona Daily Star. Both Craig McDermott and the AZ Blue Meanie … Read more