#AZLeg Vote Protects Fetuses, Criminalizes Doctors & Patients (video)
Republicans have spent weeks and employed multiple levels of parliamentary procedures to ram Senator Cathi Herrod’s … er … Senator Nancy Barto’s fetal personhood bill through both houses … twice. SB1457 died in the Senate earlier in April, but the Republicans brought the zombie bill back to life for a do-over. SB1457 inserts BIG government … Read more
Update On Sham Arizona Senate ‘Fraudit’ Lawsuit
The Arizona Mirror reports on this morning’s hearing, which is now on appeal to a duty justice of the Arizona Supreme Court for a hearing this afternoon. Dems won’t post $1M bond, so election audit won’t be paused: Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Christopher Coury ruled that the audit must halt from 5 p.m. Friday … Read more
#AZHouse Republicans Pass #PEVLPurge Voter Suppression Bill (video)
April 23 UPDATE: As only she can do, Senator Kelly Townsend put a fly in the Republican Party’s ointment on Thursday when she unexpectedly voted NO on HB1485, killed the PEVL Purge bill (at lease temporarily), and left the building. [Below is my original blog post about the House vote.] April 20 was high drama in the Arizona … Read more
The GQP War On Voting Rights
The anti-democratic, anti-majoritarian tendencies of authoritarian Republicans is growing worse. A Pew Research Center poll released on Thursday, which finds that Republicans increasingly oppose measures that would expand access to the ballot. The Drop in Republican Support for Voting Rights: The percentage of Republicans and independents leaning toward the G.O.P. who said that voters should be … Read more
Corporate Accountability: Defund The Chambers of Commerce
Update to Corporate Accountability Backlash To Jim Crow 2.0 Voter Suppression Bills (Updated). 72 Black business executives published a letter in The New York Times urging corporate leaders to speak out. Nearly 200 companies speaking out against voting law changes in Texas, other states: Nearly 200 companies on Friday joined in a strong statement against … Read more
Mayors Gallego and Romero launch Electric Vehicle Initiatives on Earth Day
While the Biden/Harris Administration is taking the United States back into a leadership role on combatting climate change and promoting clean sustainable energy, Phoenix and Tucson Mayors Kate Gallego and Regina Romero launched new Electric Vehicle Initiatives on Earth Day. Mayor Gallego forms a Citizen Committee headed by Councilwoman Ansari to Compose an Electric Vehicle … Read more
This Does Not Bode Well: A Clusterfuck Of A Press Conference for the Sham AZ Senate ‘Fraudit’
You can’t make this stuff up. The bizarro world reality we are forced to live in here in Arizona because of the MAGA/QAnon conspiracy cult that controls our state legislature is stranger than fiction. The Arizona Mirror reports, Senate won’t say who is funding the election audit or allow media access: A heated press conference … Read more
Rachel Maddow Destroys The MAGA/QAnon Kooks Behind The Sham AZ Senate ‘Fraudit’ of Maricopa County Ballots
Rachel Maddow reports on the insane conspiracy theories that underpin the effort by Arizona Republicans to conduct (another) taxpayer funded recount of only the presidential election ballots from last November from Maricopa County in the belief that they’ll discover that Donald Trump “secretly won.” Include this clip as an exhibit in the lawsuit because it … Read more
