MAGA Time at the Arizona State Legislature; A Great Opportunity for Voters to See What Republicans are Really All About

• Giving corporations a tax cut.
• Making it harder to vote.
• Mandating more restrictions on what teachers can teach.
• Expanding the amount of money rich parents can siphon off the public coffers so they can pay for their child’s private school tuition.
• Criminalize being homeless.

Those are just some of the legislative proposals the MAGA Republican Majority at the State Legislature is pushing through the House and Senate this week.

Virtually all of these proposals will do nothing to move Arizona forward. Most will not lift people up.

They would however put the state in a fiscal straight jacket, enable white nationalist-science denying reactionaries, and move Arizona backward.

Expect the great majority of these measures to find Governor Katie Hobbs’s signature…on a veto document.

Reacting to the MAGA Republican measures, especially with regard to restricting the right to vote, Senate Democratic Leader Raquel Teran posted:

“To the young women in our state who have seen a female Veteran Doctor, lifelong Public Servant, Engineer, and Nonprofit CEO sit before a committee and be belittled, I am so sorry.”

Democratic Leader @RaquelTeran expressed our grave disappointment in the DINO committee: pic.twitter.com/HOIR3MhwjM

— Arizona Senate Democrats (@AZSenateDems) February 22, 2023

This committee, led by disgruntled members who are mad at the outcomes our free and fair elections, has truly shown Arizona the very worst of politics.

We can do better than this and we must. #azleg pic.twitter.com/EPvM7EBHGs

— Arizona Senate Democrats (@AZSenateDems) February 22, 2023

House Democratic Leader Andres Cano made two posts. The first on the tax cut for corporations:

“The Arizona economy should serve everyday Arizonans, not the other way around.” $2 billion in corporate welfare for out-of-state industries doesn’t fit that bill. Leader @AndresCanoAZ votes no on Hb2003. pic.twitter.com/qgaixZKGmc

— Arizona House Democrats (@AZHouseDems) February 22, 2023

Later, he noted:

In just 43 days, Legislative Republicans in AZ have advanced legislation to:

🤯 ban voting-by-mail entirely
🤯 provide $2B in tax cuts to corporations, &
🤯 bailout landlords instead of renters.

With priorities like these, the GOP is officially out of touch with Arizonans.

— Andrés Cano (@AndresCanoAZ) February 22, 2023

State Representatives Judy Schwiebert and Analise Ortiz also made two insightful posts reacting to the MAGA Republican legislation:

It was a long day at the State house. We voted on 77 bills, only ONE of which was sponsored by a Democrat. At the end of the day one Republican stood to complain that they should not have heard any bills that had less than a 16 vote margin in favor of their party. pic.twitter.com/Qv9XC8oemw

— Representative Judy Schwiebert, LD2 (@JudyForAZ) February 22, 2023

It’s 9pm…do you know where your legislators are? Not discussing meaningful solutions to the affordable housing crisis nor substantial solutions to the water crisis. Reviewing MULTIPLE GOP bills that all aim to do the same thing: abolish vote by mail and undermine elections! 🤦🏾‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/johnmidc8u

— Rep. Analise Ortiz (@RepAnaliseOrtiz) February 22, 2023

Voters need to pay attention and remember what the MAGA Republicans are doing in trying to take away your rights and attempting to create a plutocratic-quasi-autocratic-fascist state.

Thankfully there is no Kari Lake to sign these measures on the ninth floor and with Katie Hobbs at the helm, none of these reactionary proposals will become law.