NEW, LISTEN: Rep. Kirkpatrick Working On Infrastructure, Including Frequent Contact With Senators Sinema, Kelly
Arizona Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick is working on getting an infrastructure bill passed through Congress and ensuring that Arizona is getting its share of funding for some of the projects in southern Arizona. She has been in frequent contact with Arizona’s two Senators, at a time when Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is being thrust into a key deal-making position … Read more
#AZ Democratic Budget Shows Difference in Priorities, Values & Spending (video)
Arizona Republicans have been twisting arms for weeks to find 31 of their members in the House and 16 in the Senate to pass their budget that includes $12.5 billion in tax giveaways and a flat tax. (You didn’t expect the Republicans to actually “Invest in Ed,” did you?) While the Republican budget is languishing, … Read more
SCOTUS Watch: The Court Is Dribbling Out Decisions Slowly
The U.S. Supreme Court began the final month of its term with 24 cases yet to be decided. Court observers assumed, wrongly, that we were looking at “multiple decision Mondays” in June. Instead, the Court has been dribbling out decisions slowly, one at a time, and adding extra opinion days on Thursdays in the process. … Read more
The Boston Globe: ‘Future Proofing The Presidency’ After The Criminality of Donald Trump
If only the GQP-friendly media in Arizona would do this kind of reporting. The editorial board of The Boston Globe made the case for the criminal prosecution of Donald Trump in a comprehensive interactive graphic that looked at “future-proofing” the presidency from “the next American tyrant.” Check out the full interactive here. From The case for … Read more
A ‘Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy’ Behind The Arizona Senate’s GQP Sham ‘Fraudit’
“Dark money” groups tied to Donald Trump’s inner circle and backed by people who have spread baseless lies about the 2020 presidential election appear to be playing a key role in funding the Arizona Senate’s GQP sham “fraudit.” It is a Trump Campaign made for TV (OANN) production, getting an assist from Arizona Republican Sedition Party … Read more
Arizona’s Republican Congressional Delegation does not seem to Want to Rebuild the Grand Canyon States’ Infrastructure
Rebuilding roads and bridges. Expanding rural and urban broadband. Taking out lead pipes that contaminate the water supply. Modernizing school and Veterans Administration Buildings. Investing in electric vehicle charging stations for clean energy electric automobiles. Who would not be for that? Most Republicans in Congress including the whole Arizona Delegation. Most Democrats including all of … Read more
President Joe Biden is Organizing a “Vaccine Marshall Plan” for the World
Former Time Magazine Editor and former Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Richard Stengel aptly pulled an appropriate historical analogy when describing, on MSNBC’s Deadline White House with Nicolle Wallace, President Bidens pending announcement that the United States would buy 500 million doses of the Pfizer Vaccine and donate them to the … Read more
ProPublica Exposes How America’s Billionaires Avoid Paying Taxes
The investigative journalists at ProPublica somehow came into possession of a trove of leaked IRS tax documents for America’s billionaires which show just how little they pay in taxes in relation to their ostentatious wealth, sometimes paying nothing. First, an aside: (Sigh) CNBC reports, Attorney General Garland vows billionaire tax leak to ProPublica will be … Read more
