To reiterate what I posted the other day, the budget “is a deal brokered in secret among just Republicans, and sprung upon the legislature at the last minute without committee hearings or any public input or debate. The goal is to ram it through, jam it through the legislature with just Republican votes to pass … Read more
Combatting Poverty. Expanding Affordable Housing. Fostering Economic Development. Improving Transportation Infrastructure & Mobility. Lowering Tucson’s crime rate. Those are the issues Juan Padrés would like to work on if elected to represent Ward Three on the Tucson City Council. Experienced in working in both the private and public sector, Mr. Padrés said: “I am running … Read more
If elected to serve on Ward Six of the Tucson City Council, Andres Portela pledges to: “To give voice and power to those who have been neglected by the status quo because this is our home!” Furthermore, he envisions: “With housing becoming increasingly unaffordable and neighborhoods being left out of important discussions; we can’t keep … Read more
Oh God, she’s baaack! In 2011, then Governor Jan Brewer signed off on then House Speaker Kirk Adams’ four year phased-in corporate welfare tax giveaway plan, while state revenues were still devastated from the Great Recession (2007-2009). Jan Brewer had initially opposed his plan in 2010 causing “Captain Kool-Aid,” Kirk Adams, a true believer in … Read more
With Mesa, Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Tempe having already adopted and instituted Anti Discrimination Ordinances to Protect the LGBTQ Community, the Democratic State Legislators from Legislative Districts 17 and 18 (Senator Sean Bowie and Representatives Mitzi Epstein, Jennifer Jermaine, and Jennifer Pawlik) have crafted and sent a letter to the Chandler City Government calling on them … Read more