Mayor Regina Romero and the City Council Meet Tomorrow to Discuss Funding Tucson’s Transportation Future
January 24, 2022
This is a time of great possibilities for Tucson and its people. If the City’s leaders continue to make the right choices for the future funding of transportation and roads after utilizing the funds provided by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan. Already, the city, thanks to the initiative of Mayor Regina Romero and the members of
Fight Back Against Anti-Voter Bills in the AZ Legislature
January 24, 2022
Right-wing state legislators are attacking our freedom to vote. Already, they have proposed nearly 100 voter suppression bills, and 16 of them will be heard in committees this week. Republican legislators fear losing their one-vote majority in both legislative chambers, and they are working overtime to jam through ever more extreme legislation. It is within
Rep. Walt Blackman’s Voter Suppression Bill To Please Donald Trump
January 24, 2022
Elvia Diaz of the Arizona Republic writes, Still think voter suppression is a myth? This Republican bill proves otherwise (she’s talking to you, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema): Arizona state Rep. Walt Blackman is busting the Republican narrative that voter suppression is just a myth. There are a flurry of bills being introduced at the Arizona Legislature
AZ Court Of Appeals Orders Arizona Senate To Produce Cyber Ninjas GQP ‘Fraudit’ Documents ‘Immediately’
January 24, 2022
The Arizona Court of Appeals on Friday slapped down the state Senate GQP’s efforts to withhold about 1,100 records related to the GQP sham “fraudit” of the 2020 election. Howard Fishcer reports, Court orders Arizona Senate to immediately disclose election-audit records: In a 14-page ruling Friday, the three-judge panel turned away arguments that the documents
Rolling Stone: New Emails Tie Fringe Conspiracy Theorist Phil Waldron To AZ Republican Legislators In Plot To Subvert The Election
January 24, 2022
Above: Former New York City mayor and attorney for President Trump, Rudy Giuliani, poses with members of the Arizona Legislature Nov. 30, 2020, after an unofficial hearing on alleged election fraud in Arizona. From left are Sen. David Gowan, R-Sierra Vista, Trump-pardoned felon Bernard Kerik, Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, Sen. SonnyBorrelli, R-Lake Havasu City, Rep. Mark
Republicans Want ‘Election Police’ To Keep Blacks From Voting, Just Like The Ku Klux Klan Post-Reconstruction
January 23, 2022
The New York Times reports, Republicans Want New Tool in Elusive Search for Voter Fraud: Election Police: Reprising the rigged-election belief that has become a mantra among their supporters, Republican politicians in at least three states are proposing to establish police forces to hunt exclusively for voter fraud and other election crimes, a category of
In Op-Ed Column, Kathy Hoffman Blasts Doug Ducey and Republican Legislators for Not Appreciating Teachers and Doing More to Help Them and Public Schools
January 23, 2022
Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman did not care for Governor Doug Ducey’s most recent State of the State Address. In an oped column for AZ Central, Superintendent Hoffman, still on maternity leave caring for her newborn daughter, penned an effective on point rebuke of Mr. Ducey’s address to the Arizona State Legislature. Unlike
Follow AZ Dem Leaders Bolding and Rios for a Legislative Majority in 2022
January 23, 2022
Listen at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1179134/9885447 I know. After this past year, we Democrats are tired. Tired of the pandemic, the big lie, Arizona seditionists in Congress and a right-wing extremist majority legislature in our state Capitol. But, we have cause to rally around our values and issues as represented by our Democratic leadership in the legislature —
