New Rule: Random Drug Testing for State Legislators (They’ve got to be on something)
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The GOP's war on the poor continued unabated on Tuesday with some truly awful bills. Arizona bills aim to slash spending by state: Advertisement A state Senate panel took hours of testimony Tuesday on bills that aim to shrink government, from abolishing Arizona's Medicaid system to revamping the higher-education system and using … Read more
First hearing on public employee pensions today in Arizona legislature
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Senate today will consider major changes to three public-pension systems with a bill that would force police, firefighters, politicians and corrections officers to pay more to fund their retirements and suspend cost-of-living raises for retirees. Arizona Senate set to consider big changes to pensions: Senate Bill 1609 would improve the … Read more
Arizona’s Neoconfederate Insurrectionists Vote to Nullify the 14th Amendment And Join a Confederacy
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I am sure our squishy-soft Sally Sensitive political reporters will take exception to the above caption, but truth be told, this is in essence what occurred on Tuesday in the Senate Appropriations Committee. Arizona's Senate Appropriations Committee "became the first state legislative committee in the nation to pass a package of bills intended … Read more
The Farley Report – February 22, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Time once again for the Farley Report from Rep. Steve Farley (D-LD 28): The most important object on my desk on the House floor is my grandmother's Bible. It was given to her when she was 11 by her mother, a few months before she lost her mother to the 1918 outbreak … Read more
Pearce’s latest anti-immigrant screed passes committee
By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings After more than two hours of discussion, and by a 7 – 6 vote, the Senate Appropriations Committee has approved SB1611, Russell Pearce's latest effort to one-up last year's SB1070. The four Democrats on the committee, Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, David Schapira, Paula Aboud, and Olivia Cajero-Bedford, were joined by Republican … Read more
Some pics from the early part of the day at the Legislature
By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings The Senate Appropriations hearing is underway, and I am in the overflow room (SHR1). They haven't gotten to the "good" bills yet, but here are a few pics from earlier in the day – The targets of Russell Pearce's bills… Senate hearing room cordoned off by police, who … Read more
Union ad for Wisconsin workers
by David Safier Here is an ad from the AFL-CIO, "in conjunction with AFSCME, SEIU, the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education."
