Rep. Walt Blackman’s Voter Suppression Bill To Please Donald Trump
January 24, 2022
Elvia Diaz of the Arizona Republic writes, Still think voter suppression is a myth? This Republican bill proves otherwise (she’s talking to you, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema): Arizona state Rep. Walt Blackman is busting the Republican narrative that voter suppression is just a myth. There are a flurry of bills being introduced at the Arizona Legislature
AZ Court Of Appeals Orders Arizona Senate To Produce Cyber Ninjas GQP ‘Fraudit’ Documents ‘Immediately’
January 24, 2022
The Arizona Court of Appeals on Friday slapped down the state Senate GQP’s efforts to withhold about 1,100 records related to the GQP sham “fraudit” of the 2020 election. Howard Fishcer reports, Court orders Arizona Senate to immediately disclose election-audit records: In a 14-page ruling Friday, the three-judge panel turned away arguments that the documents
Rolling Stone: New Emails Tie Fringe Conspiracy Theorist Phil Waldron To AZ Republican Legislators In Plot To Subvert The Election
January 24, 2022
Above: Former New York City mayor and attorney for President Trump, Rudy Giuliani, poses with members of the Arizona Legislature Nov. 30, 2020, after an unofficial hearing on alleged election fraud in Arizona. From left are Sen. David Gowan, R-Sierra Vista, Trump-pardoned felon Bernard Kerik, Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, Sen. SonnyBorrelli, R-Lake Havasu City, Rep. Mark
Republicans Want ‘Election Police’ To Keep Blacks From Voting, Just Like The Ku Klux Klan Post-Reconstruction
January 23, 2022
The New York Times reports, Republicans Want New Tool in Elusive Search for Voter Fraud: Election Police: Reprising the rigged-election belief that has become a mantra among their supporters, Republican politicians in at least three states are proposing to establish police forces to hunt exclusively for voter fraud and other election crimes, a category of
In Op-Ed Column, Kathy Hoffman Blasts Doug Ducey and Republican Legislators for Not Appreciating Teachers and Doing More to Help Them and Public Schools
January 23, 2022
Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman did not care for Governor Doug Ducey’s most recent State of the State Address. In an oped column for AZ Central, Superintendent Hoffman, still on maternity leave caring for her newborn daughter, penned an effective on point rebuke of Mr. Ducey’s address to the Arizona State Legislature. Unlike
Follow AZ Dem Leaders Bolding and Rios for a Legislative Majority in 2022
January 23, 2022
Listen at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1179134/9885447 I know. After this past year, we Democrats are tired. Tired of the pandemic, the big lie, Arizona seditionists in Congress and a right-wing extremist majority legislature in our state Capitol. But, we have cause to rally around our values and issues as represented by our Democratic leadership in the legislature —
Rep. John Kavananagh’s Unconstitutional Bill To Restrict Video Of Cops Committing Crimes
January 23, 2022
Troll Boy, Rep. John Kavanagh, doesn’t like the recent trend of juries holding dirty cops guilty of murder based upon cell phone video evidence from citizen bystanders exercsing their First Amendment right to film a felony crime in progress. (I would add that some of the video evidence comes directly from the dirty cop’s own
Arizona Democratic Party Censures Sen. Kyrsten Sinema For Filibuster Of Voting Rights
January 23, 2022
The Associated Press reports, Last straw: Fed-up Arizona Democrats censure Sen. Sinema: U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is growing increasingly isolated from some of her party’s most influential officials and donors after playing a key role in scuttling voting rights legislation that many consider essential to preserving democracy. Leaders of the Arizona Democratic Party voted Saturday
