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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
Political Calendar: Week of January 23, 2022
January 23, 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, events are being cancelled or postponed to later dates. 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.
First Trump White House Documents Reveal A ‘Smoking Gun’ of Seditious Conspiracy (Updated)
January 22, 2022
CNN reports, House January 6 committee now has all the White House records Trump tried to block: The House select committee investigating January 6 has received all 700-plus pages from the National Archives that former President Donald Trump had tried to block the panel from receiving. A spokesperson for the National Archives told CNN, “Yesterday
More Than 1,200 DOJ Alumni Urge AG Merrick Garland ‘To Preserve The Public Trust By Holding Culpable Leaders To Account As Soon As Possible’
January 22, 2022
Update to AG Merrick Garland Fails To Reassure His Critics That The DOJ Is Actively Investigating The January 6 Coup Plotters. In a little noted (and hard to find) move last week, “Over a thousand alumni of the Justice Department––who served under Democratic and Republican administrations––on Friday came out in support of the department’s Jan.
Russia Expert Predicts Major War In Europe Over Russian Aggression In Ukraine
January 22, 2022
For the first time since the end of World War II in 1945, there may be a major war in Europe over Russian agression in Ukraine. Russia got away with the “annexation”of Crimea in 2014, and Russian-backed militias in the Donbas region of Ukraine waging a civil war in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War. Earlier this
