In a social media video broadcast on the Arizona Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee and Arizona Senate Democrats sites, ADLCC Chair and LD 18 Senator Priya Sundareshan discussed the efforts State Democrats were making to protect Democracy from the machinations of Project 2025-MAGA Republicans.
The Senator, already known for her strong advocacy of preserving reproductive freedom and women’s health care in the Grand Canyon State, mostly spoke of policies Democrats would embrace to protect and expand access to the ballot box should they win majorities in the State Legislature in the November elections.
The ranking Democrat on the Senate Elections Committee, Senator Sundareshan mentioned that with Republicans still controlling both chambers of the Legislature “far too many popular common sense policies were just left on the table” and not even given the consideration of a committee hearing.
Those included:
- Expanding ballot access in rural and tribal areas.
- Making voting more accessible for those with disabilities.
- Creating an automatic voter registration system.
- Restoring the Permanent Early Voting List.
- Protecting voters and poll workers from intimidation.
Think about this. Republicans are so scared of Democracy and people voting against them that they want to make voting difficult for people who are blind, deaf, or confined to a wheelchair. They do not want voters to have an easier time registering to vote or finding accessible ballot options in the more remote parts of the state. They do not seem to care if voters in line or poll workers face harassment from extremist elements (like MAGA-Project 2025 zealots) on election day.
Pivoting the discussion to Project 2025, the Senator wanted to let viewers in “On a not-so-secret reality: Republicans have been test-driving Project 2025 in Arizona for decades already.”
Ms. Sundareshan cites Republican efforts at “chipping away access at our access to the ballot box, creating the haves and have not in our state by making voting as difficult as possible for those that they deem as unworthy.”
She closed the presentation on an optimistic note, telling the viewers that “Democrats have a different plan” that is based on all the people’s (rich, poor, middle class) “sacred” right to having “an equal shot” in shaping their future, “keeping Democracy strong and bolstering it,” “protecting voters,” and electing the public servants to help make that happens.
The Senator contends that “The ultra-wealthy should not be able to buy the future they want and the surefire way of making sure that doesn’t happen is by making sure our right to vote and to pick our leaders stays intact.”
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Flipping the Legislature will not happen with ADLCC writing off LD7’s candidates as unworthy “public servants to help make that happen.”