Tense Moments. Tireless efforts. Hardworking legislators and staffs. Marathon negotiations. Those are some of the descriptions given by State Representative Laura Terech, the Arizona House Democrat charged with negotiating and compromising on HB2785, a fix to the 2024 election cycle with her Republican legislator colleague Alex Kolodin. A fix was necessary to the 2024 election … Read more
Armando Montero has come a long way since first winning a seat on the Tempe Union High School Governing Board at the age of 18 a year after graduating high school at Desert Vista in 2019. A rising star, Mr. Montero, has as a board member including the last two years as its President, helped … Read more
In a sign that Democratic candidates and the issues they support are carrying weight with voters this year, Democratic legislators in competitive battleground districts are doing very well in campaign donations. LD2 Representative Judy Schwiebert’s campaign hauled in $81,000 for her State Senate run. 97 percent of those donations came from Arizona residents. LD4 State … Read more
Former Biden/Harris Assistant Secretary for the Administration for Children and Families at the Department of Health and Human Services, Attorney, Public Interest Advocate, and 2018 Democratic Arizona Attorney General Nominee, January Contreras is having a “wonderful” time as the new head of the Arizona Children’s Action Alliance (CAA.) A 35-year-old bipartisan organization dedicated to the … Read more
Arizona Democrats at the State Capitol have several policy goals going into the 2024 legislative session. The major ones are: While they have a supporting ear in Governor Katie Hobb’s office, the key to advancing any portion of their agenda is finding support among the Republican majority leadership in both legislative chambers. Senate Democratic Leader … Read more