#AZLeg Must Raise 1980 Funding Cap for Schools (video)
January 27, 2020
Thursday, January 23, marked our first floor debate of the 2020 session of the Arizona House. We had Committee of the Whole (COW) for HCR2023, a bill to raise the Constitutional funding cap that was imposed upon schools districts in 1980. We have to pass this bill in order to allow school districts to spend … Read more
Arizona Education Funds should go to only Arizona Schools
January 27, 2020
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In his January 13, 2020 State of the State Address, Governor Ducey, in remarks designed to appeal to his fringe conservative base, blamed the “heavy hand of government” (otherwise known as the law) for permanently preventing families on the Navajo Reservation from using public Arizona State funds to pay for the private school (called Hilltop … Read more
LD 10 Democratic Legislators’ Town Halls starting Feb. 1
January 27, 2020
“Join LD10 State Legislators State Senator David Bradley, Rep. Kirsten Engel, & Rep. Domingo DeGrazia for House for monthly town halls during Arizona’s 2020 Legislative Session which is starting on January 13th. Town Halls will take place at public libraries across the district on Saturdays from 10-11:30AM (check for each town hall event to confirm … Read more
Trump and Schweikert want to cut Entitlements for our Most Vulnerable
January 27, 2020
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The President of Betrayal” has surprise, surprise, broken another promise to the American People. In November, Blog for Arizona published a piece titled “Donald Trump: “The President of Betrayal.” The thrust of the article, based in part of the analysis of Morning Joe panelist Donny Deutsch, was that Mr. Trump should be branded “The President … Read more
Team Trump’s ‘trailer’ of coming attractions does not bode well for American Justice
January 26, 2020
“You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” – Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. The conservative media entertainment complex aka the Republican propaganda machine has been trying to turn this adage on its head for decades. In a famous exchange between a George W. Bush administration official and journalist … Read more
Arizona’s Surprise Billing Law Doesn’t Go Far Enough to Protect Patients (video)
January 26, 2020
On Thursday, January 16, 2020, the Regulatory Affairs Committee started bright and early with a sunset review hearing for three different departments: the Residential Utility Consumer Office (RUCO), the Department of Insurance, and the Arizona Board of Library Examiners. (This post focuses on the Auditor General’s review of the Department of Insurance.) I have been … Read more
Senate Republicans See No Evil Hear No Evil
January 26, 2020
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It appears after the first five days of the Senate Impeachment Trial of Individual One-2016 Popular Vote Loser-KKK Endorsed Candidate President Donald Trump that most Senate Republicans are adopting the attitude of See No Evil, Hear No Evil. Even the moderates Democrats are hoping come to their side on calling witnesses (like Susan Collins or … Read more
Oh Lordy, there’s tapes! Lev Parnas releases video of Donald Trump corroborating his story (Updated)
January 26, 2020
Republican Senators who are actively aiding and abetting Donald Trump’s obstruction of Congress by voting to obstruct calling any fact witnesses or to subpoena relevant documents in this impeachment trial — the only impeachment trial in American history without calling witnesses — have a serious problem on their hands. They can try to hide the … Read more
