Month: March 2020

So much winning! U.S. leads the world in coronavirus cases

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These “famous last words” should be engraved on the political tombstone of Donald J. Trump: Feb. 26: “So we’re at the low level. As they get better, we take them off the list, so that we’re going to be pretty soon at only five people. And we could be at just one or two people … Read more

(UPDATED on March 28, 2020) Someone should tell the Prima Donna in the White House we are not living under the Articles of Confederation

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The Prima Donna in the White House seems to think that the states, instead of the federal government, should take the lead in combatting the Coronavirus. This attitude seems to fit a President of the United States under the Articles of the Confederation where the states held the dominant position over the central government. If … Read more

“Climate Change & Human Health” keynote panel via Zoom on March 27

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Tomorrow! At 3:30pm. “Climate Change and Human Health” join our Keynote Panel on Zoom with experts from the College! www. facebook.com/UAZpublichealth/ Carolyn’s note: Due to the coronavirus outbreak, this panel will be online, by signing in to Zoom and typing in the webinar i.d.  Not sure what to say to those who have no internet … Read more

Anti-Trump Group To Spend $600k Running Controversial “Hoax” Ad In Arizona

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An anti-Trump Super PAC announced this morning that it will spend $600,000 in Arizona over the next few weeks to air an ad that the President’s campaign is demanding stations not air.

Priorities USA Action responded to yesterday’s cease and desist letters in other battleground states by doubling down and buying air time in Phoenix and Tucson for the ad. (The ad is below.)

Guy Cecil, the Chair of the committee, was defiant: “The fact that Trump is going to such great

lengths to keep the American people from hearing his own words adds to the urgency of communicating them far and wide. Trump doesn’t want voters to know the truth. We will not be intimidated.”

The Trump campaign made its cease and desist letter public yesterday and noted that Fox News agreed not to air the ad. It claims that the President’s well-publicized “hoax” comment referred to the Democrats’ politicization of the crisis, and not the virus itself. The letter leans heavily – without irony – on several articles from mainstream media

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