A day after President Trump tried to allay fears over the coronavirus pandemic with a bizarre press conference, or more accurately, allay fears over a stock market sell off that portends damaging his reelection chances, the stock markets responded with a vote of no confidence in “Dear Leader.” The stock markets suffered the largest one day … Read more
The Retirement of Senate Democratic Leader David Bradley has created a chain reaction for Democrats in the Tucson centered Arizona Legislative District (LD) Ten. Democratic State House Incumbent Kirsten Engel has announced her candidacy to succeed Bradley in the State Senate. That leaves the other Democratic Incumbent Domingo DeGrazia, Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, and Paul Stapleton-Smith … Read more
Arizona Legislative District (LD) Eight is an area that stretches from the edge of the East Valley in Maricopa County to the Catalina Foothills just north of Tucson. It includes all or parts of Globe, Miami, Casa Grande, Florence, Coolidge, Kearny, San Manuel, Eloy, and San Tan Valley Democrats served in Arizona LD Eight as … Read more
The sheer volume of tax credits, tax cuts, tax shifts, and miscellaneous tax giveaways in this Legislative session is mind boggling. Will the Arizona House pass one billion dollars in tax giveaways in 2020? It could happen. To say that this behavior is fiscally irresponsible is a gross understatement. The House Ways and Means Committee … Read more
According to the U.S. Commerce Department, the estimated voting age population of Arizona as of July 1, 2017 was 5,382,780. According to the Arizona Secretary of State, the total number of eligible voters registered to vote in the November 2018 election was 3,716,263, a difference of some 1,666,517 “politically disengaged” citizens. (In addition, voter turnout in Arizona … Read more