Rolling Stone: New Emails Tie Fringe Conspiracy Theorist Phil Waldron To AZ Republican Legislators In Plot To Subvert The Election
Above: Former New York City mayor and attorney for President Trump, Rudy Giuliani, poses with members of the Arizona Legislature Nov. 30, 2020, after an unofficial hearing on alleged election fraud in Arizona. From left are Sen. David Gowan, R-Sierra Vista, Trump-pardoned felon Bernard Kerik, Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, Sen. SonnyBorrelli, R-Lake Havasu City, Rep. Mark … Read more
Republicans Want ‘Election Police’ To Keep Blacks From Voting, Just Like The Ku Klux Klan Post-Reconstruction
The New York Times reports, Republicans Want New Tool in Elusive Search for Voter Fraud: Election Police: Reprising the rigged-election belief that has become a mantra among their supporters, Republican politicians in at least three states are proposing to establish police forces to hunt exclusively for voter fraud and other election crimes, a category of … Read more
In Op-Ed Column, Kathy Hoffman Blasts Doug Ducey and Republican Legislators for Not Appreciating Teachers and Doing More to Help Them and Public Schools
Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman did not care for Governor Doug Ducey’s most recent State of the State Address. In an oped column for AZ Central, Superintendent Hoffman, still on maternity leave caring for her newborn daughter, penned an effective on point rebuke of Mr. Ducey’s address to the Arizona State Legislature. Unlike … Read more
Follow AZ Dem Leaders Bolding and Rios for a Legislative Majority in 2022
Listen at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1179134/9885447 I know. After this past year, we Democrats are tired. Tired of the pandemic, the big lie, Arizona seditionists in Congress and a right-wing extremist majority legislature in our state Capitol. But, we have cause to rally around our values and issues as represented by our Democratic leadership in the legislature — … Read more
Rep. John Kavananagh’s Unconstitutional Bill To Restrict Video Of Cops Committing Crimes
Troll Boy, Rep. John Kavanagh, doesn’t like the recent trend of juries holding dirty cops guilty of murder based upon cell phone video evidence from citizen bystanders exercsing their First Amendment right to film a felony crime in progress. (I would add that some of the video evidence comes directly from the dirty cop’s own … Read more
Arizona Democratic Party Censures Sen. Kyrsten Sinema For Filibuster Of Voting Rights
The Associated Press reports, Last straw: Fed-up Arizona Democrats censure Sen. Sinema: U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is growing increasingly isolated from some of her party’s most influential officials and donors after playing a key role in scuttling voting rights legislation that many consider essential to preserving democracy. Leaders of the Arizona Democratic Party voted Saturday … Read more
Political Calendar: Week of January 23, 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, events are being cancelled or postponed to later dates. 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. … Read more
First Trump White House Documents Reveal A ‘Smoking Gun’ of Seditious Conspiracy (Updated)
CNN reports, House January 6 committee now has all the White House records Trump tried to block: The House select committee investigating January 6 has received all 700-plus pages from the National Archives that former President Donald Trump had tried to block the panel from receiving. A spokesperson for the National Archives told CNN, “Yesterday … Read more
