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If the #AZLeg Opens on May 1, Dems Will Wear Masks (video)
April 25, 2020
Thanks so much to Greer Warren, Merrill Eisenberg, and everyone who has been volunteering for weeks to make 1000s of cloth face masks to give away. You may have heard that the Arizona Legislature has been called back to work on May1 (next Friday). On Thursday, the word on the street was that the Senate … Read more
(Updated) Senator Sylvia Allen thinks those who filed for Unemployment will Not Want to Leave
April 25, 2020
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Arizona District Legislative Six Senator Sylvia Allen, the chair of the Senate Education Committee, is no stranger to controversial remarks. Over the years she has: Said the Earth is 6000 years old. Openly worried that the nation would look too much like South America (she apologized and said her comments were misconstrued.) Wanted to exclude … Read more
WHO warning: ‘no evidence’ antibodies from COVID-19 protect from a second infection
April 25, 2020
A number of pharmaceutical companies are rushing to market COVID-19 antibody tests in the hope that a sufficient number of Americans can be tested for COVID-19 antibodies on the assumption that these antibodies provide partial or total immunity from contracting COVID-19 again. There are a number of problems with this assumption. First, Coronaviruses are a large family of … Read more
Trump threatens to kill U.S. Postal Service, the result will be widespread voter suppression
April 25, 2020
They were warned, but rejecting sound medical advice Republican legislators and judges forced Wisconsin voters to vote in person or be disenfranchised because the state did not mail an absentee ballot to them in time to be returned. Calls for vote-by-mail intensify after at least 19 cases of coronavirus are linked to Wisconsin primary election: … Read more
Donate Blood with Fellow Democrats, and Save 3 Lives
April 25, 2020
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Are you healthy, age 16 or older, and weigh more than 110 pounds? Democrats of Greater Tucson needs you to donate blood. One pint of blood saves 3 lives — and possibly your own life. DATE: Friday, May 8, 2020, Noon to 5 p.m. LOCATION: The Red Cross Bloodmobile, at Democratic headquarters at 4639 E. 1st St., Tucson, AZ 85711. … Read more
Andy Biggs Came; He Saw; He Voted against the People of CD 5 Again
April 24, 2020
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He did it again. Andy Biggs, the leader of the Freedom Ca…Circus and House Representative from Congressional District (CD) Five, voted against the fourth Coronavirus stimulus bill yesterday (April 23, 2020) in the House of Representatives. That makes Biggs 0 for 4 in voting against measures that help the American People. The other members of … Read more
Gov. Ducey Should Require PPE and Testing to Re-Open Businesses
April 24, 2020
THIS POST IS PART OF A SERIES ON THE NEED TO REBUILD ARIZONA’S PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE. We know that large manufacturing and processing facilities present a big risk of rapid spread of COVID-19. We are seeing outbreaks of hundreds, even thousands of cases caused by “essential” businesses continuing business as usual in anything-but-usual times. To … Read more
