Arizona Leaders React to the Recently Passed Arizona State Budget
The reaction to the recently passed Arizona State Budget has been, to put it charitably mixed, with some Democrats saying the measure did not protect programs designed to help the most vulnerable and expand the Middle Class. Extreme MAGA Republicans faulted the budget for not going far enough in spending cuts. The Fiscal Year (FY) … Read more
Biden/Harris Campaign Brilliantly Frames the Choice in 2024 with their latest Ad “Character Matters”
In their latest ad, “Character Matters,” the Biden/Harris Campaign brilliantly frames the choice for voters in this year’s Presidential Election. The ad starts off with the narrator saying: “In the courtroom, we see Donald Trump for who he is. He’s been convicted of 34 felonies. Found liable for sexual assault and he committed financial fraud.” … Read more
Pima County Jail Has a Higher Per-Capita Death Rate Than Rikers
Surprisingly, the latest issue of The New Yorker magazine printed a letter from an inmate in the Pima County Jail: Missed Connection “As a person who is incarcerated in Pima County Jail, I found it affirming to read Sarah Stillman’s article about the replacement of in-person visits with video calls (“The Right to Hug,” May … Read more
State Republicans Cut Programs to Help Seniors and Poor Children when the Richest Hoard $175 Million in School Voucher Accounts
Republican leadership at the Arizona State Legislature adjourned legislative proceedings until this morning (June 15, 2024) without passing any of the 16 budget bills necessary to operate the state government for the next fiscal year. According to reporting from AZ Central, former Speaker Rusty Bowers, who was at the Capitol to work on water legislative … Read more
Venture Capital Fund Banned from Helping Black Women.
Fearless Fund is a venture capital firm that makes small grants of $20,000 exclusively to Black women entrepreneurs of small business. In 2022, Black women received less than 1% of the $288 billion that venture capital firms handed out to business. Much like the marijuana licenses in AZ, meant to be for those who suffered when marijuana … Read more
Netflix Documentary on Hitler Reveals Ominous Similarities with Trump
The new documentary on Netflix, Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial, reveals striking similarities between the worst dictator the world has ever known and convicted felon Donald Trump. The documentary goes into detail about Adolf Hitler and the Nazis’ rise and rule from pre-WWII to the Holocaust to the Nuremberg trials. You only need … Read more
The Lincoln Project and Others Pounce on Traitor and Convicted Donald Trump’s ‘Sh-t Talking’ Comments About Milwaukee and the Nation
The Lincoln Project and others in Democratic circles wasted no time on pouncing on Traitor and 34 Times Convicted Donald Trump’s reported comments that Milwaukee, the largest city in battleground Wisconsin, was “horrible” and “overrun with crime.” In the Lincoln Project ad titled “Milwaukee,” the ad designers first brought up all the positive things associated … Read more
