“PRESENT”? “AMERICA ONLY”? Biggs and Gosar Among 15 Refusing To Pass Resolution Condemning Burma’s Military Coup
March 19, 2021
Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs led a group of 14 Republicans opposing a resolution condemning last month’s military coup in Burma (also known as Myanmar). Rep. Paul Gosar could not bring himself to vote “no” and instead voted “present”. The final vote was 398-14, and Gosar was the sole abstention. Gosar (R-CD4) has not yet made public … Read more
AZ Senate Republicans To Do A Full Hand-Recount Audit Of Maricopa County Ballots
March 19, 2021
The Arizona Republican Sedition Party’s “Stop The Steal” attempt to reverse the certified, signed, sealed and delivered 2020 vote with a sham “audit” conducted by radical Republican state senators who gave aid and comfort to the violent seditious insurrectionist MAGA/QAnon cult in Washington D.C. on January 6, and to their insane party chair, Kelli “Chemtrails” … Read more
‘100 Million Shots In Arms In 100 Days’ On Only Day 58
March 19, 2021
The Associated Press reports that President Joe Biden will meet his goal of “100 million shots in arms in 100 days” on only day 58 of his administration. √ it off the list. Done! Biden says US to hit 100 million vaccine goal Friday: “ I’m proud to announce that tomorrow, 58 days into our administration, … Read more
House Passes The Dream and Promise Act
March 18, 2021
The House continues its breakneck pace of passing substantive legislation while the dysfunctional Senate is still bogged down with confirmation hearings for President Biden’s cabinet and department nominees. It will take reforming or killing the Senate filibuster to clear the backlog of legislation the House has sent over to the Senate. The Hill reports, House … Read more
A Moral Test Of Our Democracy: Senate Tees Up Filibuster Reform With S. 1, The For The People Act Next Week
March 18, 2021
The House has already passed H.R. 1, The For The People Act, now the Senate is preparing to move on its version of the bill, S. 1, The For the People Act, next week. To do so means having to directly confront the anti-democratic Jim Crow era filibuster rule, which the “Grim Reaper” of the … Read more
Accused Coup Plotter Andy Biggs Refuses to Honor Those that Stopped the Coup
March 18, 2021
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There should be some part of the Arizona Democratic brain trust that wishes someone like Republican State Party Chairperson Kelli Ward or Congressional District Five Representative Andy Biggs gets the 2022 Republican Senate Nomination against Senator Mark Kelly. Either one of them would be a statewide posterboard for all that has gone wrong with the … Read more
The Radical White Christian Nationalist Movement And Abortion Politics
March 18, 2021
Samuel Perry noted about the MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrection in Washington, D.C. on January 6, The Capitol siege recalls past acts of Christian nationalist violence (excerpt): [The] blending of Christian imagery with Trump flags put Christian nationalism, the often militarized fusing of Christianity and American white identity, on display during one of America’s darkest days. As someone … Read more
The New Executive Director of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission has some Explaining to Do
March 18, 2021
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$63,000 for part-time work at one event at the end of a political campaign. Can I apply for a job like that and not report it too? Brian Schmitt, the new Executive Director of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission after winning a three to two vote on Tuesday, has some explaining to do. The Republican … Read more
