Maricopa County Democrats to Hold Winter Convention on December 14.
December 6, 2019
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The Democratic National Committee has declared that Arizona will be one of the eight major battleground states in 2020. NBC Meet the Press host Chuck Todd has indicated that Maricopa County is one of five battleground counties their news organization will be watching as a barometer for where the voters are leaning for the 2020 … Read more
Is 2020 the Year the Arizona ELL Law Comes off the Books?
December 6, 2019
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Will the political stars finally align to repeal the law (Proposition 203) mandating English Only Instruction for students with limited English Proficiency in 2020? Proposition 203, passed in 2000, has not yielded the hoped-for outcomes as English learners have fallen behind in both English acquisition and mastery of other core and elective subjects children cannot … Read more
Oh, SNAP! Welfare for large corporate agribusiness, but not food for the working poor (Updated)
December 5, 2019
Bloomberg News recently reported Trump’s $28 Billion Trade War Bailout Is Overpaying Farmers: President Donald Trump’s $28 billion farm bailout may be paying many growers more than the trade war with China has cost them. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s calculations overshot the impact of the trade conflict on American soybean prices, according to six … Read more
AG William ‘Coverup’ Barr may be on an island by himself with his ‘spying’ conspiracy theories
December 5, 2019
Last week, selected leaks to the media from the report of Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz destroyed multiple GOP talking points about 2016, including Trump’s claim that the FBI spied on his campaign: The New York Times reported that the soon-to-be-released report from the Justice Department’s Inspector General regarding the FBI’s counterintelligence operation (code-named Crossfire … Read more
House Speaker Pelosi makes it official: draft the Articles of Impeachment
December 5, 2019
Press Release of Pelosi Remarks Announcing House of Representatives Moving Forward with Articles of Impeachment: Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks announcing that the House of Representatives will move forward with drafting articles of impeachment. Below are the Speaker’s remarks as delivered: Speaker Pelosi. Good morning. Let us begin where our Founders began … Read more
ALEC: Destroying Democracy State by State
December 5, 2019
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Like an undiagnosed cancer, the organization ALEC secretly writes anti-worker, anti-consumer and voter suppression “model” legislation in state capitols nationwide, including Arizona. It is funded by major corporations that bribe state legislators with luxury vacations, free travel, and gaudy dinners — and then hand them ready-to-file, regressive legislation. In fact, ALEC — the American Legislative … Read more
WATCH: GOP Senators Push Tucson Judges In Today’s Confirmation Hearing; READ Their Questionnaires
December 4, 2019
Both Pima County judges recently nominated by President Donald Trump to the U.S. District Court bench in Tucson received their confirmation hearings today, and both were questioned more closely by Republican Senators than their Democratic colleagues. Judges Scott Rash and John Hinderaker were introduced to the committee by Arizona Senators Martha McSally and Kyrsten Sinema, respectively. Each judge later … Read more
‘Rootin’ for Putin’ Republicans plot to disrupt the House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings
December 4, 2019
The House Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings today with an academic discussion from legal scholars of what constitutes an impeachable offense. But the thugs in the Trump criminal enterprise that is the Party of Trump have other designs. Their goal is to disrupt, distract and discredit the impeachment hearings with their own obstruction of Congress … Read more
