Coalition of Arizona Activists Launch An Ad Campaign Targeting Senator Sinema
So our Senators get two weeks off for the July 4th holiday – nice work if you can get it. This is is supposed to be constituent work time in the state, but I do not find anything on Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s website announcing a schedule of events or town halls. If she does not … Read more
Supreme Court in 2013 Unleashed Arizona Voter Suppression
A notorious 2013 US Supreme Court ruling gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and unleashed the onslaught of voter suppression laws by Republicans that continues to this day, according to Robert J. McWhirter, who addressed the June 22, 2021, meeting of the LD9 Democrats. The Court in Shelby County v. Holder ruled that Arizona … Read more
AZ House GQP Wants Curriculum About Communism, But Not Fascism. Go Figure.
The Sedition Caucus in the Arizona House voted Friday to require that students be exposed to stories of people who fled communism, as part of a curriculum to prepare them to be “civically responsible and knowledgeable adults.’’ Just curious, why not expose students to stories of people who fled European fascism? When I was a … Read more
Supreme Court in 2013 Unleashed Arizona Voter Suppression
A notorious 2013 US Supreme Court ruling gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and unleashed the onslaught of voter suppression laws by Republicans that continues to this day, according to Robert J. McWhirter, who addressed the June 22, 2021, meeting of the LD9 Democrats. The Court in Shelby County v. Holder ruled that Arizona … Read more
More Republican Tax Cuts for Arizona’s Wealthy at the Expense of Democracy and Public Schools
It is bad enough that Republicans in the Arizona State Legislature told pregnant women and poor children to p–s off when it came time to fund expansions to the state-run health care and KidsCare Programs. Even Laurie Roberts, in her June 25, 2021 column for AZ Central noted, the KidsCare expansion provision would have only … Read more
Political Calendar: Week of June 27, 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
SCOTUS Watch: A Quiet Friday, Wait Until Monday. The Biden DOJ Finally Acts On Voting Rights
The Court decided three cases today not on our watch list, leaving 5 cases, including Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, until next week. Many Court observers believe that the Roberts Court will use this case to gut the remaining section 2 enforcement provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. On Friday, the Biden Department of … Read more
Arizona Republicans to Children that Need to Enroll in KidsCare: “P–S Off”
The State Budget process in Arizona has shown several fundamental truths for the former Party of Lincoln. They are: The Big Lie on the 2020 Election is alive and well as evidenced by their enactments of several provisions like putting watermarks on ballots, going after social media sites that tell the truth about Republican officeholders … Read more
