Time is running out to collect 119,000 qualifying petition signatures on six 2022 ballot initiatives each to stop Republican efforts to gut Invest in Ed, and the suppression of voting rights. There is also a seventh ballot initiative designed to stop the continuing influence of Dark Money in Arizona politics. To that end, Stop Dark … Read more
Update on Update On State Lawsuits Over Anti-Mask Orders (excerpt): [Background]: Mask mandates, election changes don’t belong in budget bill, lawsuit claims: Mask mandates, changes to how elections are run and limits on how racial issues can be discussed in Arizona classrooms all were stuffed into the state budget in June. Now, a coalition of education and … Read more
Maybe now we will finally get “the most transparent audit in history” that Senate President Karen Fann falsely promised us at the beginning of the Arizona Senate’s GQP sham “fraudit.” Yeah, right. The Arizona Mirror reports, ‘Audit’ documents are public records: Arizona Supreme Court declines Fann’s appeal: Communications between subcontractors, invoices and a host of … Read more
Recently, our partisan hack attorney general Mark Brnovich said businesses can require COVID-19 vaccines: Private Arizona businesses can require their employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 but must allow reasonable religious and medical exemptions under state and federal law, state Attorney General Mark Brnovich wrote in a legal opinion. And they can impose vaccine requirements on … Read more
Even when the Arizona Legislative Session is over, fringe Trump Zone Zealots Kelly Townsend and Mark Finchem are in the news and it is for all the wrong reasons. Townsend, the Legislative District (LD) 16 Senator caught the attention of journalists and columnists at AZ Central and the Arizona Mirror by again equating the push … Read more