Facing 20 state criminal lawsuits, Postmaster General reverses course today (updated)

Facing 20 state criminal lawsuits, Postmaster General reverses course today (updated)

August 18, 2020

Trump’s toady Postmaster General Louis DeJoy reversed course Tuesday, saying that all changes being made to the Postal Service would be suspended until after the November 3 election, after 20 Democratic state attorneys general announced plans to file federal criminal lawsuits. CNN reports, Postal Service backs down on changes as at least 20 states sue … Read more

McSally ad claiming ‘I will always protect those with preexisting conditions’ rated ‘False’

McSally ad claiming ‘I will always protect those with preexisting conditions’ rated ‘False’

August 18, 2020

It was true in 2018, and is still true today. The Huffington Post recently reported that Republican candidates around the country are doing precisely what Donald Trump has been doing: Lying about their records on preexisting conditions — again. Buried deep in this report, we finally come to Arizona’s appointed, not elected, Senator Martha McSally: In … Read more

Arizona Democrats react to Trump’s War on the Post Office and Democracy

Arizona Democrats react to Trump’s War on the Post Office and Democracy

August 18, 2020

The Post Office has been in America since before there was the United States. Donald Trump, as fellow writer AZ Blue Meanie has ably recounted in several articles, is at war with it. Why? To stop what he perceives in his Stable Genius mind, a horde of Anti Trump votes coming through mail-in ballots. His … Read more

Post Master to testify to Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Friday

Post Master to testify to Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Friday

August 18, 2020

Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) is taking time out from acting as Putin’s useful idiot pursuing his “smear of Joe Biden based on his efforts to end corruption in that country during his tenure as Obama’s vice president,” to hold a hearing on the U.S. Postal Service on Friday in an attempt to preempt the House … Read more

Sharon Girard will bring back respect and trustworthiness to the position of legislator

Sharon Girard will bring back respect and trustworthiness to the position of legislator

August 18, 2020

Arizona Legislative District (LD) Eight has had its share of notoriety over the last year. Incumbent David Cook has been embroiled in a scandal over love letters to a lobbyist. Both Cook and the other Republican incumbent Frank Pratt may be more appropriately called corporate and fringe servants as opposed to public ones. Just look … Read more

Mariana Sandoval wants to be a Servant Leader for the People in Arizona Legislative District 13

Mariana Sandoval wants to be a Servant Leader for the People in Arizona Legislative District 13

August 18, 2020

The people in Arizona Legislative District (LD) 13 can do better than State Representatives Joanne Osborne and Tim Dunn. According to Votes Smart, Ms. Osborne and Mr. Dunn have: Voted for discriminating against Transgender high school students. Been against community colleges offering four-year degrees. Supported the construction of a border wall without building permits. Not … Read more

Kristin Urquiza may have helped put Arizona in Joe Biden’s column on the first night of the DNC Convention

Kristin Urquiza may have helped put Arizona in Joe Biden’s column on the first night of the DNC Convention

August 17, 2020

Michelle Obama was powerful tonight as the Keynote Speaker on the First Night of tonight’s Democratic National Convention. So was Bernie Sanders, John Kasich, Andrew Cuomo, and most of the evening speakers who spoke about Donald Trump’s deficiencies as President and Joe Biden’s strengths as a potential Chief Executive. But perhaps the presentation that could … Read more

Republicans are recruiting poll watchers to intimidate voters at the polls

Republicans are recruiting poll watchers to intimidate voters at the polls

August 17, 2020

Update to The entire Republican Party apparatus is gearing up to suppress the vote in 2020 (excerpt): In 1982, the Republican Party agreed to a consent decree after Democrats sued it for activities at polling places that they said were aimed at suppressing the minority vote. The consent decree barred the organization from using voter challengers, … Read more

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