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Arizona Democratic Candidates Support Protecting the Grand Canyon and Staying in the Paris Climate Agreement.

August 27, 2020November 11, 2019 by David Gordon

Once upon a time, Republicans were leaders in Environmental Protection. It was Republican Presidents (Grant and Harrison) that started designating lands as national forests and parks that fellow Republican President Theodore Roosevelt expanded and codified into law. It was a Republican President (Nixon) that signed the law that created the Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean … Read more

Trump’s ‘deplorables’ targeted someone who is not the whistleblower

November 10, 2019 by AZ BlueMeanie

I’ve told you earlier about how Donald Trump, Jr. and his fellow “deplorables” in Congress and the conservative media have turned to an online campaign in quest to unmask the Ukraine whistleblower: Tweets on Wednesday by Donald Trump Jr. capped more than a month of efforts by President Trump’s allies to surface the supposed name … Read more

Political Calendar: Week of November 10, 2019

November 16, 2019November 10, 2019 by AZ BlueMeanie

The Political Calendar is posted on Sundays. Please send us notice of your political events prior to the Sunday before your event 7 days would be most helpful). See the calendar icon in the right-hand column of the blog page for easy access to the calendar. Send notices of your events to blogforarizona@gmail.com. Note: For … Read more

Cartoon of The Week

November 10, 2019 by AZ BlueMeanie

Americans must choose between a future of authoritarian Trumpism or preserving democracy

November 9, 2019 by AZ BlueMeanie

An election is “only fair if we won” is the mantra of the Party of Trump. Remember the close elections we had here in Arizona in 2018 in which Democrats won statewide seats, including a Senate seat, for the first time in years? President Trump and Republicans in Arizona and nationally stoked claims of deliberate … Read more