Partisan Hack AG Mark Brnovich To Run For U.S. Senate Instead Of Governor
April 20, 2021
Above: This Richard Nixon pose is not going to impress voters. Governor Doug Ducey has consistently said that he is not interested in running for U.S. Senate when he terms out of office in 2022. He has fantasies about running for president in 2024. We have been over this ground. It had been widely assumed … Read more
GQP Legislatures Protect Drivers Who Hit BLM Protestors
April 20, 2021
There has been a nationwide effort by Republicans to criminalize Black Lives Matter protestors, but not the white supremacist MAGA/QAnon domestic terrorists who engaged in a seditious insurrection against the Capitol on January 6, and stormed at least one state capitol building in Michigan last year as a rehearsal. Back in February I told you … Read more
Flush With Covid Dollars, Republican Legislators Contemplate a Flat Tax
April 20, 2021
It seems State Senator Vince Leach (R-LD11) got it wrong when he confirmed that Arizona might face a $1.1 billion deficit. But Governor “one scoop or two Ducey” decided that after receiving COVID money ($1.86 billion in federal coronavirus relief funding), Arizona cities, towns, and counties would get only $441 million of that $1.86 COVID … Read more
Arizona Center for Economic Progress Head David Lujan Assumes the Leadership of the Children’s Action Alliance
April 20, 2021
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The Children’s Action Alliance (CAA,) an organization that specializes in advancing policy issues that would benefit Arizona children and families like education, health care, child safety, and childcare has a new leader. It is former Arizona Democratic Legislative Leader and current Center for Economic Progress head David Lujan. Mr. Lujan brings a vast amount of … Read more
What the Hell is Doug Ducey Thinking Taking Away the Mask Requirement for Public Schools
April 19, 2021
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It is ironic that it was only about four hours ago (April 19, 2021) that Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman said in response to a reporter’s question, that the mask requirement would stay in place for Arizona’s schools at least until summer. It is almost as if Governor Doug Ducey was watching because, … Read more
Kate Gallego Inaugurated for Full Four Year Term as Phoenix Mayor, Pledges to help lead Phoenix into the Future
April 19, 2021
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Kate Gallego began a full four-year term as Phoenix Mayor today (April 19, 2021) after getting inaugurated with other members of the City Council (Yassamin Ansari, Betty Guardado, Ann O’Brien, and Debra Stark) who won elections last November and March (a runoff where Ms. Ansari prevailed.) In her inaugural remarks. Mayor Gallego started by saying … Read more
Do Arizona’s Senators Support The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act?
April 19, 2021
MSNBC’s Joy Reid sarcastically refers to prima donna senator Joe Manchin as “Prime Minister Manchin” and “the prince of Appalachia.” Maybe all the negative attention this prima donna senator has been getting is paying off. The Hill reports, Manchin throws support behind union-backed PRO Act: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Monday threw his support behind the … Read more
School Superintendent Kathy Hoffman and the Arizona Department of Education Release Additional School Safety Grants
April 19, 2021
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Citing the need to promote greater mental health and school safety for Arizona students after over a year of being educated mostly through virtual learning at home under the cloud of the Coronavirus, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman, along with state legislators and education stakeholders at the State Capitol, announced the release of … Read more
