Senate Republicans Blocked The Next Round Of Covid Relief As Part Of Their Anti-Immigrant ‘White Fright’ 2022 Election Strategy
April 18, 2022
Multiple senators confirmed earlier this month that they delayed voting on a bill to pour $10 billion more into pandemic programs until after the two-week Easter recess, a decision top administration health officials have said further threatens the country’s ability to fight the virus and prepare for potential surges and variants. Politico reports, Senate punts
China’s ‘Zero-Covid’ Policy Is Causing Supply Chain Disruptions And Resulting In Inflation
April 18, 2022
Americans, in particular the anti-science, anti-masker, anti-vaxxer crowd, are fond of saying that they are done with Covid-19, they are going to live their life as normal. Even more responsible Americans, those who have had both shots of their Covid-19 vaccination and the booster shot, also are saying that they are done with Covid-19, they are
Anti-Democracy Republican Party Withdraws From The Last Remaining Norms Of Democracy
April 17, 2022
Above: h/t The Bulwark, Trump Is the One Who Wants to Burn It All Down. The Washington Post reports, RNC votes to withdraw from presidential debates commission: The Republican National Committee on Thursday voted unanimously to withdraw from the Commission on Presidential Debates, following through on threats to bar GOP presidential nominees from participating in
Political Calendar: Week of April 17, 2022
April 17, 2022
Send notices of your events to blogforarizona@gmail.com. Editor’s Note: Due to the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and CDC recommendations for social distancing, many events are still being held virtually online. We are doing our best to update the calendar, but you should check with event organizers prior to attending any event to confirm the status. Political
Border Democrats and the Biden/Harris Administration Need to Develop Immigration Reform
April 16, 2022
Democratic Senators Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema, plus Congressmen Thomas O’Halleran and Greg Stanton, are calling on the Biden/Harris Administration to postpone the suspension of a Trump-era immigration law, Title 42. Title 42 is an anti-immigration policy put forth by the Trump Administration using the COVID 19 pandemic as a pretext to stop asylum seekers
AZ Citizens Clean Elections Commission’s debates start on April 19
April 16, 2022
Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission holds debates for contested statewide and legislative districts races in election years. This year 2022 they just posted the upcoming debate schedule for the Primary: https://www.azcleanelections.gov/arizona-elections/debate-information First off are Republicans running in LD 1 on April 19, then Democrats running for Secretary of State on
DNC Opens Up Early Primary Calendar, Taking Applications For The 2024 National Convention
April 15, 2022
Above: NRG Park, Houston, Texas. Update to DNC Winter Meeting To Consider Resolution Which Could End The ‘First In The Nation’ Status For Iowa Caucus. The New York Times reports, Democrats Weigh Shake-Up to Presidential Primary Calendar: Just over two years after Iowa’s disastrous Democratic caucuses, in which officials struggled to deliver results, party officials
Our Lawless Arizona GQP Legislature Is Again Defying the Constitution, The Courts, And The Voters On Public Education
April 15, 2022
We have to take a trip with Mr. Peabody and Sherman in the WAYBAC machine to 2018 when this case first went to court (filed in 2017). School capital funding case goes to court, Governor Ducey only offers pennies on the dollar of what is actually owed: The other day I pointed out that Governor
