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Arizona School Funding Should not be on the Chopping Block
April 26, 2020
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With the revelation that the state may have as much as a $1.1 billion budget deficit over the next two years (as well as a reduction in sales tax revenue,) the worry that vital programs that help our most vulnerable, including children, would be on the chopping block if legislators enacted, like in the foolhardy … Read more
Political Calendar: Week of April 25, 2020
April 26, 2020
The Political Calendar is posted on Sundays. Please send us notice of your political events prior to the Sunday before your event 7 days would be most helpful). See the calendar icon in the right-hand column of the blog page for easy access to the calendar. Send notices of your events to blogforarizona@gmail.com. Note: For … Read more
If the #AZLeg Opens on May 1, Dems Will Wear Masks (video)
April 25, 2020
Thanks so much to Greer Warren, Merrill Eisenberg, and everyone who has been volunteering for weeks to make 1000s of cloth face masks to give away. You may have heard that the Arizona Legislature has been called back to work on May1 (next Friday). On Thursday, the word on the street was that the Senate … Read more
(Updated) Senator Sylvia Allen thinks those who filed for Unemployment will Not Want to Leave
April 25, 2020
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Arizona District Legislative Six Senator Sylvia Allen, the chair of the Senate Education Committee, is no stranger to controversial remarks. Over the years she has: Said the Earth is 6000 years old. Openly worried that the nation would look too much like South America (she apologized and said her comments were misconstrued.) Wanted to exclude … Read more
WHO warning: ‘no evidence’ antibodies from COVID-19 protect from a second infection
April 25, 2020
A number of pharmaceutical companies are rushing to market COVID-19 antibody tests in the hope that a sufficient number of Americans can be tested for COVID-19 antibodies on the assumption that these antibodies provide partial or total immunity from contracting COVID-19 again. There are a number of problems with this assumption. First, Coronaviruses are a large family of … Read more
Trump threatens to kill U.S. Postal Service, the result will be widespread voter suppression
April 25, 2020
They were warned, but rejecting sound medical advice Republican legislators and judges forced Wisconsin voters to vote in person or be disenfranchised because the state did not mail an absentee ballot to them in time to be returned. Calls for vote-by-mail intensify after at least 19 cases of coronavirus are linked to Wisconsin primary election: … Read more
Donate Blood with Fellow Democrats, and Save 3 Lives
April 25, 2020
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Are you healthy, age 16 or older, and weigh more than 110 pounds? Democrats of Greater Tucson needs you to donate blood. One pint of blood saves 3 lives — and possibly your own life. DATE: Friday, May 8, 2020, Noon to 5 p.m. LOCATION: The Red Cross Bloodmobile, at Democratic headquarters at 4639 E. 1st St., Tucson, AZ 85711. … Read more
