Larry Bodine 
Since launching an anti-fraud squad a year ago, Pima County Attorney Laura Conover has recovered nearly $1 million for local victims of housing, internet and financial scams. “Fraud attracts certain minds. It’s so different from prosecuting violent crime,” Conover said at a meeting of Democrats of Greater Tucson. “These prosecutors and investigators and staff get boxes … Read more
“While Republicans continue to destroy our democracy, we work to rebuild and strengthen it,” says the Arizona Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee. The Arizona Legislature has 30 days left to find the two-thirds vote needed to override the 1980’s Aggregate Expenditure Limit (AEL) or public school districts will be forced to give back the $1.2 Billion that they have already … Read more
Martin Luther King’s assassination, the civil rights movement and social justice advances have always been core motivations politically for Ron Williams of Goodyear, AZ, the editor of the Mule News. “I see these voting bills for what they are — suppression of Black, Brown and Indigenous voters and not about ‘election integrity,’” he says. Not … Read more
[00:00:00] Lawrence O’Donnell: Our next guest, like Kyrsten Sinema, is an activist in Arizona, democratic politics before being elected to office herself in September of 2019. Gabriella Cázares-Kelly discovered that the county recorder’s office in her county, Pima County, Arizona maintains voter registration records in 2020. Gabriella Cázares-Kelly ran for the office herself and won. She … Read more
With both Democratic members voting “no,” the Independent Redistricting Commission certified the new Congressional and Legislative district maps at their January 21st meeting, as described in this Jeremy Duda article in the AZ Mirror: Redistricting commission gives final certification to new maps Below are links to the new maps in both Google My Maps and … Read more