(UPDATED) President-Elect Biden and Vice President-Elect Harris Announce the New Administrations Health Care Team
December 7, 2020
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President-Elect Biden and Vice President-Elect Harris officially announced their selections for the incoming Administrations’s Health Care team. The nominees are: “Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services. He is currently the California Attorney General and a former House Representative. He led the most recent defense of the Affordable Care Act in the United States Supreme … Read more
Rudy Giuliani’s ‘GOP Clown Car Coup’ Traveling Circus Was A Coronavirus Super-Spreader Event
December 7, 2020
President Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday that his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for the coronavirus, making him the latest in Trump’s inner circle to contract the disease that is now surging across the U.S. The AP reports, Trump lawyer Giuliani in hospital after positive virus test: Giuliani was exhibiting some symptoms and … Read more
The Scorecard on the Biden/Harris Cabinet and White House Staff Picks So Far
December 6, 2020
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There has been recent concern among some Democratic/Progressive Leaning Groups on how diverse the Biden/Harris Administration will be. The President-Elect has pledged to have the most diverse Administration in History. How is the Biden/Harris Transition Team doing so far? White Women: 12 Black Women: 7 Latino Women: 3 Asian Women: 4 White Men: 8 Black … Read more
The Devil Went Down to Georgia, He Was Lookin’ For A Vote To Steal
December 6, 2020
Donald Trump held another coronavirus super-spreader rally in Georgia last night, one day after Georgia set a single-day coronavirus record, ostensibly in support of Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) and interim Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) in the January runoff elections that will decide control of the U.S. Senate. Not so much: the two senators spoke for … Read more
GOP Clown Car of Lawsuits Finally Crashes
December 6, 2020
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Soooo much losing. The GOP nationwide and in Arizona have been driving a clown car, with bogus lawsuits jumping out wildly. But they’ve crashed into a wall of judges, legislators, and officials who reject their claims to overturn the election — and many of them are Republicans! Republicans have become defeated whiners and snowflakes who … Read more
Get Out the Popcorn: The Arizona Republican Civil War is Intensifying
December 6, 2020
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This has been festering since the November 3, 2020 elections and is starting to boil. On one side you have law and order Republicans that were willing to humor Trumpist attempts to use the legal process to prove there was widespread fraud in the elections. When those assertions proved baseless after a series of court … Read more
Political Calendar: Week of December 6, 2020
December 6, 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
House Votes to Legalize Marijuana as Racial Justice Mandate
December 5, 2020
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The House of Representatives voted by a bipartisan majority of 228-164 to pass the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Expungement (MORE) Act, ending the Federal ban on cannabis. The MORE Act would remove cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act and expunge nonviolent pot-related offenses. The New York Times reports the law, “would require Federal courts to … Read more
