UPDATE: AZ Justice Suddenly Recuses Himself In Election “Audit” Public Records Case
February 17, 2022
Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick has recused himself from further participation in the swirling appeals involving last year’s election “audit”. Bolick participated in the four previous actions related to the “audit” (and previous cases related to the 2020 elections), but just discovered on Tuesday that his wife – State Rep. Shawnna Bolick – received
NY Judge Rules Trump Crime Family Must Sit For Depositions
February 17, 2022
CNN reports, Trump and his children may be deposed by New York attorney general, judge rules: Former President Donald Trump, as well as his children Ivanka and Donald Jr., must sit for depositions in the New York attorney general’s civil investigation of their business practices, a New York judge ruled Thursday. New York Supreme Court
AZ Senate Can’t Find GQP Votes To Override Education Funding Cap, But Expands School Vouchers On A Party-Line Vote
February 17, 2022
Above: Classic David Fitzsimmons cartoon, still true after all these years. Michael Bryan posted on Tuesday, Arizona House Passes Resolution to Waive the AEL and Prevent the #AZFiscalCliff for AZ’s Schools: Today, 17 Republicans joined all 28 present Democrats to pass HCR 2039. Now the spotlight turns to the AZ Senate to pass the matching
House Committee Approves Retaliatory Bill To Divide Up Maricopa County Into Four Counties
February 17, 2022
Update to Fake GQP Elector Rep. Jake Hoffman And Eight Other Trump Sycophants Want To Divide Up Maricopa County Into Four Counties. The Sedition Party actually went through with it: the House Government and Elections Committee approved the bill on Wednesday in a 7-6 party-line vote with Republicans in favor. Republican lawmakers want to split
Making Sense Of The Economics Misinformation I Read In The Newspapers
February 17, 2022
The corporate media “gatekeepers,” i.e., the New York Times and the Washington Post, are really failing the American people with their both-siderism model of editorial opinions, what Fox News used to laughably advertise itself as “fair and balanced.” There is right and wrong. How about we try that for a change? The Washington Post employs
Arizona Gubernatorial Candidate Aaron Lieberman Unveils his Let’s Grow Arizona Plan for Increasing Teacher Compensation
February 16, 2022
Arizona Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Aaron Lieberman has a plan for moving Arizona forward and improving people’s lives. Called Let’s Grow Arizona, the plan will focus on improving public schools, sustainability and clean energy, and growing the jobs of the future. On February 14, 2022, Mr. Lieberman, an educator, entrepreneur, and former State Representative from LD
Christian Nationalism Behind The January 6 Insurrection
February 16, 2022
Kathryn Joyce reports at Salon, Christian nationalism drove Jan. 6: Now it’s embraced the Big Lie, and wants to conquer America: Earlier this week, a new Pew survey found that the share of Americans who believe Donald Trump was largely responsible for the violence of Jan. 6, 2021, has declined by nearly 10 percent over
Possible Bipartisan Consensus for HB 2023 to Make Scanned Ballot Images a Public Record?
February 16, 2022
There is one bill to reform elections procedures in the Arizona Legislature that might be able to find bipartisan support amid this highly partisan flurry of election bills before the AZLeg: HB 2023. Unlike some of the extreme bill pending that seek to radically restructure elections or compromise the secrecy of our ballots in the
