Sinema Walks the Line: 1 of 2 Dems To Cross Aisle On Nomination Today, Votes With Party Against Judges
March 13, 2019
Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema continues to cross the aisle on votes, today joining Joe Manchin and all Republicans in voting for President Trump’s nominee for the Commissioner for Labor Statistics (William Beach). At the same time, she toed the party line on two judicial nominations this week (Neomi Rao and Paul Matey for appellate appointments). … Read more
House Democrats introduce HR 6 – the Dream and Promise Act
March 13, 2019
House Democrats have teed up the next major piece of legislation: an immigration bill that would allow as many as 2.5 million people to apply for legal status and put them on a path that could ultimately lead to US citizenship. Dara Lind reports at Vox, House Democrats introduce bill to offer 2.5 million immigrants … Read more
Check and check mate for Paul Manafort
March 13, 2019
The second court to sentence former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort in the past week delivered its sentence today, giving him a additional 3.5 years in prison. Paul Manafort Sentenced to 3.5 More Years in Prison: President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, has been ordered to serve a total of seven and a half years … Read more
Kate Gallego is the Mayor-Elect of the fifth largest city in the United States.
March 13, 2019
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A 17-month campaign to become the next Mayor of Phoenix ended with a decisive runoff victory for former Phoenix Councilmember, now Mayor-Elect Kate Gallego. With her opponent former Phoenix Councilmember Daniel Valenzuela conceding defeat, Mayor-Elect Gallego will formally succeed Representative Greg Stanton who resigned to run for Congress last year. A 37-year-old New Mexico native, a graduate of Wharton and … Read more
“That’s a Certainty!” Governor’s Support For Protecting Arizonans With Pre-Existing Conditions Disappears With Bill Signing
March 12, 2019
“Health insurance companies should cover people with pre-existing conditions. That’s a certainty!” That was Arizona Governor Doug Ducey’s no-mincing-words statement in the weeks leading up to his re-election last fall. Yesterday, the Governor signed into law SB1109, erasing the pre-election certainty. Now, short term health insurance policies will be offered to some Arizonans which contain … Read more
Nancy Pelosi steers the right course
March 12, 2019
The “Dems in Disarray”™ meme is really getting a workout from Washington Post reporters Rachael Bade and Mike DeBonis. These concern trolls really need to knock it off. For example, ‘Like herding cats’: Pelosi struggles to unify Democrats after painful fight over anti-Semitism — Democrats were united and voted unanimously for the Anti-Semitism resolution, and for … Read more
Five Ways the U.S. College Fraud Scandal Hurts Arizonans.
March 12, 2019
We all understand that often a wealthy parent will fund a slick new campus building or a state of the art library on an elite college campus, thus securing their child’s admission to said elite university. This sort of deal happens often and most of us have come to accept it as not quite fair, … Read more
Donald Trump betrays his supporters with cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
March 12, 2019
“Budgets are moral documents,” has been attributed to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. To borrow Dylan Matthews’ caption from 2017, “Budgets are moral documents, and Trump’s is a moral failure.” The most amoral and corrupt president in U.S. history released his budget proposal on Monday. The only consolation is knowing that this budget proposal … Read more
