Political Calendar: Week of July 25, 2021
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
Arizona Deserves Better, Stop Dark Money, and Invest in Arizona Launch Drives to to Protect Democracy and Save Public Schools
In the welcoming rain, leading members of Arizona Deserves Better, Stop Dark Money, and Invest in Arizona held a public event at former State Attorney General Terry Goddard’s law office to launch petition drives to overrule the anti-Democratic acts of Grand Canyon state Republicans because, as Deserves Better leader Alison Porter said, “a lot of … Read more
Voting Rights Summer Days of Action: Georgetown-to-Austin Voting Rights March
Like President Lyndon Baines Johnson before him, President Joe Biden is going to need a push from civil rights and voting rights activists to create a groundswell of public pressure on him to act on voting rights legislation, in this case, to call on the Senate to reform or repeal the Jim Crow relic Senate … Read more
The Unvaccinated Have to Think About Others Like Small Children and the Chronically Ill
Arizona Cardinals Wide Receiver DeAndre Hopkins crystallized the “baby” attitude of the people who are choosing not to get the COVID 19 vaccine. The number one Cardinal wide receiver tweeted and then wisely deleted remarks that he might retire from the team because the National Football League has adopted a policy stating that teams may … Read more
A Third Wave of COVID-19 In Arizona Is The ‘Pandemic Of The Unvaccinated’ – Governor Ducey Is Doing Nothing (Updated)
Coronavirus infections are rising dramatically all over the U.S. as the highly contagious Delta variant spreads. The Washington Post reports, CDC warns this is a ‘pivotal moment’ in fight against delta variant: Top Biden administration officials on Thursday said that a hyper-transmissible variant of the coronavirus is posing new challenges for the nation’s health system, … Read more
Coalition of AZ Small Businesses Calls On Sen. Sinema To Reform The Senate Filibuster And To Pass The For The People Act
While the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, representing multi-national corporations, is backing Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema with campaign contributions as a reward for their opposition to some of President Joe Biden’s legislative initiatives and their defense of the Senate filibuster rule, U.S. Chamber rewards Senators Manchin, Sinema for opposing Biden initiatives, “A coalition of … Read more
Sen. Mark Kelly Supports ‘The Overall Goals’ Of The PRO Act
There are three Democratic Senators who have not yet fully committed to the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which would make improvements to union organizing rights, and end free rider so-called “right to work” laws: Sen. Mark Warner (VA), and Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly. Senator Mark Kelly now appears to be … Read more
Mitch McConnell Threatens To Take The Nation Hostage Again Over The Debt Ceiling
The government will likely run out of borrowing authority sometime in October or November unless Congress takes action to raise or suspend the debt limit (debt ceiling), the Congressional Budget Office warned Wednesday. Debt limit deadline likely October or November, CBO says: The new forecast sets the stage for a fall showdown over the debt … Read more
