Dysfunction, infighting, corruption, and personal spats are characteristic of authoritarian politics. The GOP has become such an anti-democratic, authoritarian movement from top to bottom. Today, we take a closer look at the bottom here in Pima County through the lens of an interview with Pima GOP Chair Dave Smith. We are all already too familiar … Read more
With the pending retirement of three-term State House Legislative District (LD) 13 Representative Jennifer Pawlik from the Arizona Legislature, former 2022 LD 14 House candidate Brandy Reese, a forensic science chemist, peace officer, mother of two daughters, and public education activist, has declared her run to succeed the well-regarded legislator. Arizona LD 13 encompasses all … Read more
Thanks to the inept policy decisions of the Doug Ducey Gubernatorial Administration, the Saudi Arabian agricultural firm, Fondomonte, is still legally allowed to pump as much water (free of charge) as it can so they can grow alfalfa in Salome, Arizona to ship to their nation and feed its livestock. Apparently, the Ducey team did … Read more
This is another week where voters in Arizona and the country can see the vast differences between the two major political parties. And not for the Republican’s benefit. On Tuesday, August 8, 2023, President Biden, with Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, Governor Katie Hobbs, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Representative Raul Grijalva, Representative Greg Stanton, and … Read more
Better late than never. The 2022/23 Arizona Legislative Session has finally ended. Sine Die is here. Fortunately, it ended with, after much deal-making with Republicans who detested light rail in the Phoenix area, the bipartisan passage (with mostly Democratic votes) of the headline bill designed to refer Proposition 400, the measure that will fund various … Read more