Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has unveiled her 2025/26 budget proposal, and it reflects the priorities she laid out in her State of the State Address when she called on State Legislators to work with her to achieve “Arizona’s Promise.” In a Gubernatorial Press Release, the Governor’s Team highlighted the following features of Ms. Hobb’s proposed … Read more
It seems that many elected Democrats, including some of Arizona’s own, have been cowed into supporting a very bad bill. In brief, the ‘Detain Petty Thieves Forever Bill’ (aka the Laken Reilly Act… you can always count on MAGA to horribly and cynically exploit a family’s tragedy for political purposes, can’t you?) not only mandates … Read more
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes both tackled the issue of immigration yesterday (January 15, 2025.) The Governor, according to an office press release, “announced $17.2 million in funding from the SAFE (Stopping Arizona’s Fentanyl Epidemic) initiative to support local law enforcement’s border security work, drug interdiction efforts, and combatting human trafficking.” … Read more
The constant theme in Governor Katie Hobbs’s third State of the State Address before a joint session of the Arizona State Legislature was the need to work together to fulfill Arizona’s Promise. Whether invoking the legacies of Arizona political stalwarts like Sandra Day O’Connor, Bruce Babbit, Raul Castro, Barry Goldwater, and John McCain or saluting … Read more
Arizona Congressional District Three House Representative Yassamin Ansari has come to Washington D.C., and it has been a nonstop rollercoaster Between fully assembling her legislative staff, getting the computers up and running in her congressional office, getting acclimated to the Washington scene, making her first-floor speech on the House floor condemning the inclusion of anti-immigrant … Read more