Political Calendar: Week of April 17, 2022
Send notices of your events to blogforarizona@gmail.com. Editor’s Note: Due to the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and CDC recommendations for social distancing, many events are still being held virtually online. We are doing our best to update the calendar, but you should check with event organizers prior to attending any event to confirm the status. Political … Read more
Border Democrats and the Biden/Harris Administration Need to Develop Immigration Reform
Democratic Senators Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema, plus Congressmen Thomas O’Halleran and Greg Stanton, are calling on the Biden/Harris Administration to postpone the suspension of a Trump-era immigration law, Title 42. Title 42 is an anti-immigration policy put forth by the Trump Administration using the COVID 19 pandemic as a pretext to stop asylum seekers … Read more
AZ Citizens Clean Elections Commission’s debates start on April 19
Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission holds debates for contested statewide and legislative districts races in election years. This year 2022 they just posted the upcoming debate schedule for the Primary: https://www.azcleanelections.gov/arizona-elections/debate-information First off are Republicans running in LD 1 on April 19, then Democrats running for Secretary of State on … Read more
DNC Opens Up Early Primary Calendar, Taking Applications For The 2024 National Convention
Above: NRG Park, Houston, Texas. Update to DNC Winter Meeting To Consider Resolution Which Could End The ‘First In The Nation’ Status For Iowa Caucus. The New York Times reports, Democrats Weigh Shake-Up to Presidential Primary Calendar: Just over two years after Iowa’s disastrous Democratic caucuses, in which officials struggled to deliver results, party officials … Read more
Our Lawless Arizona GQP Legislature Is Again Defying the Constitution, The Courts, And The Voters On Public Education
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
Mayors Gallego, Romero, and Woods Attend Conference on Amtrak Linking a Railway Line between Phoenix and Tucson
Many of Maricopa and Pima County Mayors, including Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, Tucson Mayor Regina Romero, and Tempe Mayor Corey Woods attended Arizona’s Statewide Railway Conference on April 11 and 12, 2022. The main goal of the conference: to lay the groundwork for creating an Amtrak railway line between Phoenix and Tucson. This goal has been … Read more
Rep. Morgan Abraham’s Offense and Defense Strategy in the Legislature
The Republican Arizona Legislature is passing anti-voting laws, banning parental family planning, and destroying public education. Accordingly, Rep. Morgan Abraham — a candidate for state Senate in LD18 — devised an offense and defense strategy. He spoke at the April 11, 2021, meeting of Democrats of Greater Tucson. Edited Transcript of Morgan Abraham’s remarks: Larry … Read more
President Biden Accurately Accuses Vladimir Putin of Genocide In Ukraine, Media Clutches Its Pearls
President Joe Biden speaks with the moral clarity that has been lacking in presidents, in particular from the moral degenerate and seditious criminal who previously occupied the White House. The media made Donald Trump president. Donald Trump said insane, dangerous things all the time, and the media covered it like it was reality show entertainment. … Read more
