What Texas is doing with vote by mail borders on negligent manslaughter
June 27, 2020
The state of Texas is on the precipice of a pandemic catastrophe. On Friday, Governor Greg Abbott began backtracking from reopening the Texas economy by closing bars, dialing back restaurants to half-capacity. In Houston, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo issued a Level 1, or “Code Red.” Harris County raises COVID-19 threat to most critical level, … Read more
Arizona U.S. District judge dismisses ‘ballot order bias’ case
June 27, 2020
Update to Democrats challenge ‘ballot order bias’ in several states – Arizona case developments: [Last] November, a federal judge declared unconstitutional a decades-old Florida law that requires candidates who are in the same party as the governor to be listed first on the ballot (Arizona has a similar law). Judge rejects old Florida law that gave … Read more
Visit Blog For Arizona’s New Store!
June 26, 2020
Who doesn’t like some schwag? Some merch? Some flare? Now you can buy our swag, helping to spread the word about BlogForArizona.net, subtly telling those MAGA-hatted idiots around you to “kiss my ass”, and all the while supporting the blog financially, just by visiting our new store full of merch, or finding the ‘Shop’ link … Read more
WaPo’s The Big Idea Podcast Trounces Ducey’s Response to COVID-19
June 26, 2020
The Washington Post’s Political Correspondent James Hohmann simply destroys Governor Ducey’s response to the COVID-19 epidemic. Definitely worth a listen.
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules against Trump theft of Pentagon funds for his wall
June 26, 2020
NBC News reports Appeals court rules funding for Trump border wall construction ‘unlawful’: The Trump administration does not have the authority to use military funding to pay for construction of a border wall, a federal appeals court panel ruled on Friday. In a 2-1 ruling, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel found that … Read more
Local Arizona Democratic Candidates react to the Emerging American Majority Ad on Pre-Existing Conditions
June 26, 2020
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The local and state activist group, Emerging American Majorities (EAM) has released a digital ad, calling for Republicans in the Arizona State Legislature to stop playing with Arizonan lives and do more to protect people with preexisting conditions (especially during the Coronavirus) than the potentially patient price gauging Mesnard measure that passed the Legislature in … Read more
House passes the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act
June 26, 2020
Joan McCarter at Daily Kos sums this up perfectly. House passes George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, challenges McConnell to act: The House of Representatives passed its policing reform bill, dubbed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act aka the Justice in Policing Act of 2020, Thursday evening, in a vote of 236-181. Three Republicans, Brian Fitzpatrick … Read more
The ‘opened too soon’ economic relapse from the coronavirus resurgence
June 26, 2020
Elected officials were all warned by economists — serious economists, not those asshats in the White House Council of Economic Advisors — that opening up the economy too soon would result in a resurgence of the coronavirus spread, inevitably leading to the necessity of shutting down the economy again, a far worse result with more … Read more
