INVITATION: Senator Priya Sundareshan Discusses the Arizona Budget and Re-caps the Legislative Session Monday July 23 at Noon with TheDGT.org
Please join us for a live discussion and QA with Senator Sundareshan (an other leaders of the Democratic Caucus, as floor schedules allow) this Monday at Noon on Zoom. If you are curious about the results and process of the Arizona State Budget, and want insights in the good and the bad of the legislative … Read more
UPDATED 6/17: Watch BOTH CD 7 Democratic Candidate Debates… and VOTE! Ballots Start Hitting the Mail TODAY!
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 (Appeared at TheDGT.or on June 17th)(YouTube link), Adelita Grijalva (Appeared … Read more
AZ Dems Call a Special Meeting to Consider the Retention of Chairman Branscomb Now Scheduled for July 16th
The meeting to decide whether to retain or remove our current ADP Chairman Robert Branscomb is now scheduled, per petition, on July 16th, meeting virtually. Following some seemingly not-entirely-in-good-faith preliminary plans for a special meeting by the Chair that failed to provide a virtual meeting as the petition required, and didn’t provide timely notice of … Read more
Democratic Senate Leader Priya Sundareshan Discusses the Upper Chambers Sprint to Finish Legislative Business at the State Capitol Last Week
With her first year as the State Senate Leader in the Arizona Legislature, Senator Priya Sundareshan graciously took time to discuss the upper chambers sprint to the legislative finish line last week headlined by the passage of two bipartisan measure: a 17 billion dollar budget and a water security bill that will protect urban water … Read more
Arizona Congressional Democratic Reaction to Trump Bombing Three Iran Nuclear Sites
Despite appearing to give diplomatic efforts a two week window, Donald Trump, (surprise surprise) went back on his word and ordered the bombing of three of Iran’s underground nuclear facilities with bunker busting bombs. According to Trump, the strikes were successful. While no one should feel sorry for the Iranian regime, a government that for … Read more
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs Calls Whiny House Republicans Position on Budget “A Farce” and Their Fiscal Plans DOA
After meeting with fiscal bomb throwing MAGA “Free Caucus” State House Republicans, an incensed Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs issued the below statement, calling their position “a farce” and “pointless political grandstanding” that hurts hardworking Arizonans. She also reiterated that their move to pass a continuation budget would “meet her veto pen.” “For months I have … Read more
Masking Tyranny
I may be a progressive liberal, but I know history and human nature – and the nature of State power (from a career as a criminal prosecutor) – well enough to have some very conservative and libertarian impulses when it come to limitations and conditions on the State’s police powers. This video from the Lincoln … Read more
Whiny MAGA Arizona House Republicans Put a Potential Wrench on the FY26 Budget
Arizona House MAGA Free Caucus Republicans led by Speaker Steve Montenegro, the ones who decided to take a one month siesta away from the State Capitol and ignore the people’s business have chosen to whine and ignore a bipartisan FY26 budget passed earlier this morning in the Senate and forge a continuation budget that will … Read more
