The Arizona House Republican leadership wants to change the House rules again this year. We have not voted on their proposed changes… yet…and if we do, there will be a floor battle because the Democrats don’t like the changes and neither do some of the more reasonable Republicans. The suggested GOP changes would further suppress … Read more
Monday, January 13, 2020, was opening day at the Arizona Legislature. Opening day is always fun and full of political drama because there are protests, press conferences with multiple Progressive groups (labor unions, Planned Parenthood, teachers, and others), the House and Senate Democratic Caucus Press Conference, and a big party with great food hosted by … Read more
It all started with a letter to State Representative Mitzi Epstein from nine-year-old Amber Chen. The letter asked Arizona Lawmakers to write legislation that would combat balloon and plastic pollution to help save animals. Later in the legislative session, girl scouts helped write a bill as an educational exercise to address this issue. Over the … Read more
Arizona Voters have an important decision to make in the 2020 elections. Make no mistake about the significance of the 2020 elections. They are a referendum on what direction to steer Arizona and the country. Do Arizona and the country go forward, stand still, or move backward? Does the nation continue on the path of … Read more
Jay Lawrence would have been more comfortable with the xenophobic nativist bigots that served in national, state, and local offices in the 1920s and ’30s. Those people, who publicly championed immigration-refugee restrictions and policies like the ones that prevented the Jewish passengers of the St. Louis (where 254 of them would later become victims of … Read more