ANNOUNCEMENT: TheDGT.org Special Event Series for AZ CD7 Special Election Primary Democratic Candidates
TheDGT.org (for which I serve as 1st VC and Program Manager) is attempting an audacious series of Special Events to ensure Democratic voters and our TheDGT.org Members are able to meet and interact with ALL the CD7 Democratic candidates as ballots begin dropping in our mailboxes across the district. We are having a rapid-fire series … Read more
UPDATED 6/11: Watch CD 7 Democratic Candidates Debate on Arizona’s PBS Horizon and Clean Elections
The candidates vying to succeed the late Raul Grijalva gathered and debated each other on Arizona’S PBS Horizon. Ballots begin to hit District 7 mailboxes June 15th and the final day of the primary and in-person voting is July 15th. The candidates are: Deja Foxx (Appearing at TheDGT.or on June 17th), Adelita Grijalva (appearing at … Read more
Leading Arizona Democrats Call on Congress to Not Gut Funding that Creates Manufacturing and Clean Energy Jobs in the Grand Canyon State
A report from the Arizona Commerce Authority, hardly a bastion of socialism and left wing liberalism, found that if MAGA Republicans follow through on their commitment to gut forward provisions like clean energy tax credits in the Biden/Harris Inflation Reduction Act, the Grand Canyon State will lose $58 billion in investments and 69,000 good paying … Read more
Arizona Senate Democratic Leader Priya Sundareshan Describes Budget Negotiations at the State Capitol
Arizona Senate Democratic Leader Priya Sundareshan graciously sat with Blog for Arizona to describe the latest on budget negotiations with Legislative Republicans and Governor Katie Hobb’s office. What the Senator describes is a negotiating situation that is somewhat frustrating because Republicans, acting like strongmen, will not allow them in the room where the discussions are … Read more
(UPDATED)”If They Will Do This in Public, Middle of the Day, to a Sitting Senator While Being Recorded – What will They Do to Others Behind Closed Doors”
That above quote from Arizona Democratic Senate Director of Communications Calli Jones says it all. Today, in a public press conference, California Senator Alex Padilla, in attempting to ask Homeland Secretary/Dog Killer/Habeas Corpus Illiterate Kristi Noem a question, was assaulted and handcuffed by F.B.I. officials after identifying himself. Noem and Speaker Mike Johnson have already … Read more
Climate Change: Privatizing the Benefit and Socializing the Risk
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) have an excellent story in their spring 2025 edition on how the fossil fuel industry, like the tobacco industry and big pharma, has gaslighted the country for decades. The DOJ was in London earlier in the year to argue for the extradition of a private investigator for hacking into … Read more
Governor Hobbs Vetoes Bill That Would Target Teachers Under the Guise of Saying They Promote Anti Semitism
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed HB2867, a measure that, if it had become law, would have prosecuted teachers under the guise of saying they were promoting Anti Semitism. In her veto letter to Arizona House Speaker Steve Montenegro, the Governor touted her credititionals supporting the Jewish Community in the Grand Canyon State, including expanding Holocaust … Read more
Arizona House Democratic Leader De Los Santos and AEA President Garcia Blast House MAGA Budget that Robs from Vulnerable Children
What do MAGA Republicans, especially in the Arizona House at the State Capitol have against vulnerable children? This legislative session, they seem to take delight in threatening to cut off funding for poor children’s school lunches or assistance for kids with disabilities. How sick is that? Well, House MAGA Republicans, finally returning from an undeserved … Read more
Arizona Legislative Democrats to Working Class Arizonans on the State Budget “Their Priorities Are Our Priorities”
With budget negotiations gaining steam at the Arizona State Capitol, Democratic Senate and House Leaders released their current goals and assessments of what they want to see for fiscal year 2026 and how the process is proceeding. In a social media video released yesterday (June 10,) Senate Democratic Senate Leaders Priya Sundareshan and Catherine Miranda … Read more
