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Republican Voter Suppression Bills Are on Ducey’s Desk: Just Say No! (video)
May 4, 2021
Each session has a pattern. This year, everything seems more orderly. We have had only one night where we were on the floor past 7 PM. Mondays generally have a leisurely pace, now that there are no committee meetings, but Thursday’s make up for it with rousing debates. Arizona House members had several debates on … Read more
Tucson Mayor & Council vote for new Concept D/G for proposed Reid Park zoo expansion
May 4, 2021
Mayor Regina Romero and the six Tucson Councilmembers had a study session today on their survey results after the 45 day pause voted on March 9, for the proposed expansion of the Reid Park Zoo. The survey results by 14,000 participants were the most “neutral” for Concept/option D. City of Tucson City Manager Michael Ortega … Read more
Corporate Accountability Finally Comes To Texas To Oppose Jim Crow 2.0 Voter Suppression Bills
May 4, 2021
In a Wall Street Journal column last week, Sen. Ted “Cancún” Cruz (R-TX) warned that CEOs opposing Republican threats to voting rights will be excluded from his party’s pay-to-play legislative operation — because they’re no longer conservative enough for the GOP. For example, Republicans will stop accepting donations in exchange for “looking the other way” … Read more
Democrats Should be Able to Beat the Party of the Big Lie and Reactionary Obstructionism in the 2022 Mid Terms
May 4, 2021
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With local, state, congressional, and gubernatorial candidates declaring their intentions to run and raise money for the 2022 midterm elections (even while final district lines have not been drawn yet,) it is not too early to start speculating if the Democratic Party can turn back the historical trend that the incumbent Presidents party mostly loses … Read more
U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee And New York AG Blow Up The NRA’s Fraudulent Bankruptcy
May 4, 2021
Years ago, one of my first jobs out of law school was working as an investigator for the bankruptcy trustee, handling Resolution Trust Corporation cases following the Savings & Loan scandal. So I can say with confidence that this is most unusual and rarely occurs. The New York Times reports, N.R.A. Leadership and Bankruptcy Assailed by … Read more
4 Ways to Fight For Voting Rights and Fair Elections
May 4, 2021
The Republican opera bouffe “audit” of Maricopa County ballots is attracting national attention now that Georgia and the major players there have gone silent. The issues raised in Georgia’s legislation are surely going to the courts there. Arizona’s situation is absolutely nuts. In the Legislature, the most damaging legislation that would torque a perfectly good … Read more
Sen. Joe Manchin Opposed to Washington, D.C. Statehood Without a Constitutional Amendment
May 3, 2021
Article IV, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution provides, in pertinent part: New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of … Read more
Parallel Universes
May 3, 2021
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The Arizona we have and the Arizona we want seem to bear no relationship to each other. What does that say about the state of our democracy? First, let’s look at the AZ we have. The Southern Poverty Law Center has released its 2020 “The Year in Hate and Extremism” report. https://www.splcenter.org/year-hate-and-extremism-2020 They count … Read more
