As Republicans have done in other states where voters threw them out of office in favor of Democrats — North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Kentucky for example — authoritarian Republicans now want to limit the powers of the Secretary of State as the chief elections officer in Arizona. Arizona’s reigning queen of GOP voter suppression … Read more
Over the last 30 years, women in Arizona politics of both political parties have had a big impact on shaping local and state policy. Arizona has had four Women Governors (Rose Mofford, Jane Hull, Janet Napolitano, and Jan Brewer) since 1988. In that same time period, Arizona has had six women Secretaries of State. Three … Read more
There are over 90,000 certified public school teachers in Arizona. The overwhelming majority of them work hard and do an exceptional job in educating the state’s children. There are however a small fraction of this group (1140 so far in 2019) or less than one percent of the total number of teachers that have been … Read more
The results of Tuesday’s election in Virginia in which Democrats completed taking full control of the states legislative chambers, after taking full control of statewide offices two years ago, may have far-reaching consequences for the nation. Amanda Marcotte at Salon explains that Virginia going blue means there could be 38 states completing ratification of the … Read more
With a lot of attention focused on the upcoming 2020 Presidential election and Senate race between likely candidates Martha McSally and Mark Kelly, people need to keep their eye on the races to control the Arizona State Legislature from 2021 to 2023. The State Legislature, along with the Governor, is the political bodies that largely … Read more