The Arizona State Unemployment System is Broken and Needs to be Fixed
May 5, 2020
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Close to half a million people, mostly because of the Coronavirus, have filed for unemployment protection. Some have not seen their first payment. Approximately 175,000 of these people, because they had to leave their job for health reasons or because they were contractors/gig workers are waiting to receive their first check. Why? Because the Arizona … Read more
The Lincoln Project: ‘Mourning in America’ ad
May 4, 2020
The Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump conservative group whose aim is to derail the president’s reelection campaign, has unleashed a devastating new ad that aims to be the mirror image of former President Ronald Reagan’s famous “Morning in America” ads. ‘Mourning in America’: GOP group unleashes devastating ad that hits Trump for making US ‘weaker, sicker, … Read more
The Trump death cult: reviving 20th Century social Darwinism and eugenics
May 4, 2020
Above Photo: A woman holds a sign during a rally to open the state at Wesley Bolin Plaza in Phoenix on May 3, 2020. Arizona Republic. We are witnessing the consequences of Moral Relativism and Objectivism among the right-wing with the “spread the coronavirus” protestors opposed to social distancing measures enacted by governors to slow the … Read more
Déjà vu: Trump administration is ‘cooking’ intelligence to politicize the intelligence agencies
May 4, 2020
Donald Trump has spent four years promoting a “deep state” conspiracy theory with which to undermine the U.S. intelligence agencies and the state department. He has removed virtually all of the career service personnel who led those agencies, out of retaliation for their having investigated his campaign’s numerous interactions with Russian operatives in the 2016 … Read more
Defying the Governor’s Stay at Home Declaration is Illegal; Even for the Law and Order Hypocrites in the Trump Zone
May 4, 2020
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Governor Ducey’s extension of the Stay at Home Declaration until May 15 is not meant to hurt people or damage them financially. It is meant to protect them as much as possible from exposure to the Coronavirus, which has not peaked yet in Arizona. It is meant to save lives. It is meant to help … Read more
50th Commemoration of the Kent State Massacre
May 4, 2020
For younger generations, May the Fourth has become a fun wordplay for Star Wars fans: “May the fourth be with you.” Yeah, I get it. But for people of my generation, May the Fourth is still a solemn reminder of a divisive time in American history, perhaps even more so than today. On May 4, … Read more
Seeing Red AZ Run by Right-Wing Cowards
May 3, 2020
I left some comments at a right-wing Arizona blog today, responding a post about McSally’s Senate campaign and some of the critical ads being run against her. I posted as myself, not hiding my affiliations, viewpoint, or identity. I did not use profanity or make any ad hominem attacks on any of the writers or … Read more
LD9 #COVID19 Town Hall on Testing, Unemployment & the #AZ Budget (video)
May 3, 2020
The Legislative District 9 Team– Senator Victoria Steele, Rep. Randy Friese, and myself– held our first virtual town hall on Thursday, April 30, 2020. Except for getting hacked at the end [more on that below], it was a great meeting. Many LD9 precinct committee people were on the call. Over the course of the hour, … Read more
