Welcome, Washington Post Columnist George Will to the bandwagon of objective political observers that thinks Arizona can go blue in 2020. In a column titled “A loose brick in Republicans’ red wall,” Will pointed out several reasons included in previous reporting (like Ronald J. Hansen, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Pamela Ren Larson’s piece for AZ … Read more
The two trillion and two hundred billion dollar stimulus package that overwhelmingly passed Congress last week with near-unanimous bipartisan support is far from a perfect bill. It was a necessary compromise Democrats had to forge with corporatist Republicans to get vital assistance to the people, small business, the nation’s medical infrastructure, and soon to be … Read more
Appointed Senator Martha McSally certainly telegraphed her gut punch to Democratic efforts to build a more resilient workforce during this crisis by granting every worker paid sick leave and family and medical leave coverage. She voted against a Democratic amendment to the Coronavirus relief package that would have expanded coverage to every worker, instead of … Read more
Arizona Congressional District Five (and current Freedom Circus/Caucus leader) Representative Andy Biggs is a poor excuse for a public servant. A public servant should put the needs of his constituents, no matter what race they belong to, what God they worship, what sexual orientation they subscribe to, over his or her own. During a pandemic … Read more
If this crisis has demonstrated anything, it is that incentivizing workers to come to work sick is, if nothing else, terrible from a public health perspective, not to mention a serious threat to the income security of working families. However, today Senator McSally, on a telephone town hall with over 20,000 people in attendance, declined … Read more