Republicans have spent weeks and employed multiple levels of parliamentary procedures to ram Senator Cathi Herrod’s … er … Senator Nancy Barto’s fetal personhood bill through both houses … twice. SB1457 died in the Senate earlier in April, but the Republicans brought the zombie bill back to life for a do-over. SB1457 inserts BIG government … Read more
April 23 UPDATE: As only she can do, Senator Kelly Townsend put a fly in the Republican Party’s ointment on Thursday when she unexpectedly voted NO on HB1485, killed the PEVL Purge bill (at lease temporarily), and left the building. [Below is my original blog post about the House vote.] April 20 was high drama in the Arizona … Read more
While the Biden/Harris Administration is taking the United States back into a leadership role on combatting climate change and promoting clean sustainable energy, Phoenix and Tucson Mayors Kate Gallego and Regina Romero launched new Electric Vehicle Initiatives on Earth Day. Mayor Gallego forms a Citizen Committee headed by Councilwoman Ansari to Compose an Electric Vehicle … Read more
The opponents of fully funding public schools and Democracy will not quit. This time, they have petitioned the Arizona Supreme Court to declare Proposition 208-Invest in Ed unconstitutional because: There are state caps on education spending. The Invest in Ed-Proposition 208 measure did not pass with a two-thirds margin for approval. The petitioners are: “Sen. … Read more
In an attempt to improve his odds at winning higher political office, Governor Doug Ducey has been spending the last few weeks returning to the reactionary dark side of the former Party of Lincoln and signing executive orders that will appease the Know-Nothing wing of that party. That includes measures to: Take away mask mandates … Read more