In 2014, it was corporations and their interest in maintaining the profitability of corporations that led them to pressure the legislature to defeat the so-called religious liberty (“freedom to discriminate”) bills against the LGBTQ community – in Arizona this was SB1062 – when threats of boycotts and responding to pressure from business interests, and worries about … Read more
When the United States was founded, it was a white male patrician society: only white men of property were permitted to vote in a majority of states, which prevented poor people, freedmen former slaves, Native Americans, and women from voting. Following small “r” republican logic, citizens were believed to need an economic stake in society in … Read more
If people read the local or national newspapers or online cable news networks the last few days, one trend should be apparent with regards to voting rights and promoting Democracy. Most Anti-American members of the former Party of Lincoln are against it. Whether it is in states like Georgia or Iowa or Florida or Arizona, … Read more
Republicans have been in control of the Arizona legislature since January 1967. (You read that right). Virtually all of our current election laws have been drafted and passed by Republican legislators to benefit Republican legislators maintaining their decades-long control over this state, from changing absentee voting to early voting by mail, to creating the Permanent … Read more
The National Conference of State Legislatures explains Supermajority Vote Requirements: Most states require a simple majority vote to pass an initiative measure, whether statutory or constitutional in nature. All states except Delaware also require a vote of the people to pass a constitutional amendment. In most states, the initiative constitutional amendment process is not subject … Read more