By Dianne Post, Attorney, Central Phoenix National Lawyer’s Guild The Phoenix mayor and police chief called a community “listening” forum on June 18 at Pilgrims Rest Baptist Church. The place was overflowing and the meeting had to start nearly an hour late to get everyone in. While the mayor, chief, assistant chief, city manager, assistant … Read more
I had set aside this excellent reporting from Brenna Bailey at the Arizona Daily Star to get around to later on the topic of Arizona’s structural revenue deficit. Tucson educators: 2020 Arizona budget ‘Band-Aid approach’ to K-12 funding crisis: Gov. Doug Ducey and the Arizona Legislature have touted their decision to invest $660 million new dollars … Read more
Doug Ducey, the ice cream man hired by Koch Industries to run their Southwest subsidiary formerly known as the state of Arizona, recently penned an op-ed for The Arizona Republic aka the “McMedia” (for its daily reporting on the reality TV stars ‘The McCains”), extolling his recently passed state budget. Gov. Ducey: Why this year’s … Read more
As a proud progressive Democrat, I find myself called upon to counter right-wing demagoguery on immigration on the regular. You probably do too. We can never let these views go unchallenged because they have intuitive power and popular appeal. Here’s how to respond effectively and, somewhat, briefly to such demagogic assertions. Demagoguery 1: “There is … Read more
One of Donald Trump’s favorite lies is to claim that House Democrats “are getting nothing done in Congress.” What he really means to say is that House Democrats are not being servile, like lickspittle Republicans, and bowing down before “Dear Leader” to give him everything he wants without all that troublesome democracy stuff getting in … Read more