‘Disappointing’ Sinema Is About To Face A Moment Of Truth On Senate Filibuster Rule
September 15, 2021
Axios reports, Scoop: Sinema’s secret spreadsheets: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) is negotiating the size and scope of President Biden’s $3.5 trillion budget plan armed with her own spreadsheets about the costs and tax hikes needed for each program, people familiar with the matter tell Axios. [Maybe she should actually ask her constituents what they want, … Read more
Update: Court Hears Oral Argument On Arizona Legislature’s Abuse of State Budget Process To Enact Pet Policy Bills
September 15, 2021
Update on Update On State Lawsuits Over Anti-Mask Orders (excerpt): [Background]: Mask mandates, election changes don’t belong in budget bill, lawsuit claims: Mask mandates, changes to how elections are run and limits on how racial issues can be discussed in Arizona classrooms all were stuffed into the state budget in June. Now, a coalition of education and … Read more
Arizona Supreme Court Rules Against The Arizona Senate Trying To Keep Cyber Ninja GQP Sham ‘Fraudit’ Records Secret From The Public (Updated)
September 15, 2021
Maybe now we will finally get “the most transparent audit in history” that Senate President Karen Fann falsely promised us at the beginning of the Arizona Senate’s GQP sham “fraudit.” Yeah, right. The Arizona Mirror reports, ‘Audit’ documents are public records: Arizona Supreme Court declines Fann’s appeal: Communications between subcontractors, invoices and a host of … Read more
AG Mark Brnovich Goes The Full George Wallace, Yelling ‘States Rights!’ Over Covid-19 Vaccinations
September 15, 2021
Recently, our partisan hack attorney general Mark Brnovich said businesses can require COVID-19 vaccines: Private Arizona businesses can require their employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 but must allow reasonable religious and medical exemptions under state and federal law, state Attorney General Mark Brnovich wrote in a legal opinion. And they can impose vaccine requirements on … Read more
Mark Brnovich Puts Political Ambition Over Public Safety Again
September 15, 2021
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Mark Brnovich is trying to rehabilitate himself with the fringe base of his party that is disenchanted with him for not protesting the Arizona results of the 2020 Presidential Election. In an attempt to demonstrate (before the Republican Senate Primary which he is running in) that he has their science-denying-Know Nothing interests at heart, the … Read more
Kirsten Engel Looks to Emerge as the Frontrunner in the Race to Succeed Ann Kirkpatrick in Congress
September 14, 2021
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The last ten days have seen a shakeup among Democratic contenders in the race to succeed Ann Kirkpatrick in what is now Arizona Congressional District Two. Dr. Randy Friese decided to drop out of the race and focus his time working to help people stricken with the Coronavirus and other health ailments. This surprising development … Read more
Who Is Behind That Ridiculous Ad Polluting The Airwaves?
September 14, 2021
Over the last couple of days I have been annoyed by a cartoonish, totally ineffectual social media meme-styled political ad from a political PAC misleadingly calling itself the Common Sense Leadership Fund. This PAC name was formerly a Leadership PAC affiliated with former Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA). The Hill reports, Conservative group targets Kelly, Hassan … Read more
Democrats Fiddle While Republicans Stack the Electoral Deck
September 14, 2021
I am becoming increasingly impatient with the Democratic Party’s leaders and Democratic members of the House and Senate as the days of September slip by with no visible progress on anything. The double-tracked “infrastructure” bills lie dead in the water while Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema play statespersons—not because they are, but because they can. … Read more
