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Political Calendar: Week of April 25, 2021
April 25, 2021
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 events icon at the top of the blog page for easy access to the calendar. Send notices of your events to blogforarizona@gmail.com. Editor’s Note: Due … Read more
President Biden Recognizes the Armenian Genocide
April 24, 2021
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After days of speculation and a Friday phone conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Joe Biden officially recognized the slaughter of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War One as a genocide on the 106th anniversary of the start of the atrocities. That is a victory for human rights, the American Ideal, … Read more
Republican Bills Attack Voting Rights, Freedom of Expression (video)
April 24, 2021
Often when the House Democrats go into caucus, we were greeted with a HUGE list of bills to consider that morning. Such was the case a few weeks ago when the caucus agenda was several pages long, including two pages of proposals attacking your rights. Since the staff didn’t receive the caucus agenda until about … Read more
Dems: End the Madness and Protect Our Elections from Conspiracy Theorists
April 24, 2021
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Yesterday morning a judge ordered the Senate and its “Fraudit” team to comply with all laws governing the right to a secret ballot and the confidentiality of voter registration data. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Christopher Coury ordered the Senate and its audit team to comply with all laws governing the right to a secret … Read more
#AZLeg Vote Protects Fetuses, Criminalizes Doctors & Patients (video)
April 23, 2021
Republicans have spent weeks and employed multiple levels of parliamentary procedures to ram Senator Cathi Herrod’s … er … Senator Nancy Barto’s fetal personhood bill through both houses … twice. SB1457 died in the Senate earlier in April, but the Republicans brought the zombie bill back to life for a do-over. SB1457 inserts BIG government … Read more
Update On Sham Arizona Senate ‘Fraudit’ Lawsuit
April 23, 2021
The Arizona Mirror reports on this morning’s hearing, which is now on appeal to a duty justice of the Arizona Supreme Court for a hearing this afternoon. Dems won’t post $1M bond, so election audit won’t be paused: Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Christopher Coury ruled that the audit must halt from 5 p.m. Friday … Read more
#AZHouse Republicans Pass #PEVLPurge Voter Suppression Bill (video)
April 23, 2021
April 23 UPDATE: As only she can do, Senator Kelly Townsend put a fly in the Republican Party’s ointment on Thursday when she unexpectedly voted NO on HB1485, killed the PEVL Purge bill (at lease temporarily), and left the building. [Below is my original blog post about the House vote.] April 20 was high drama in the Arizona … Read more
The GQP War On Voting Rights
April 23, 2021
The anti-democratic, anti-majoritarian tendencies of authoritarian Republicans is growing worse. A Pew Research Center poll released on Thursday, which finds that Republicans increasingly oppose measures that would expand access to the ballot. The Drop in Republican Support for Voting Rights: The percentage of Republicans and independents leaning toward the G.O.P. who said that voters should be … Read more
