Calendar update: DCSRA meeting on July 18
July 11, 2019
BfAZ readers — our Calendar link is not operating again, so here’s a message about an upcoming Democratic Club of Santa Rita Area meeting change: “Please, help us spread the word! Due to the Mueller hearings this coming Wednesday, July 17, 2019, DCSRA will move its weekly discussion meeting on current affairs to Thursday, July … Read more
Portending disaster in New Orleans – tropical storm Barry
July 11, 2019
Musical accompaniment, the Tragically Hip: “New Orleans is sinking man and I don’t wanna swim.” The inflection point in the George W. Bush administration was not his disastrous Iraq War, but his administration’s apparent indifference and clusterfuck handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina “When The Levees Broke” (Parts I & II and Parts III & … Read more
President Trump to defy the U.S. Supreme Court with an executive order on the Census
July 11, 2019
The Washington Post reports, Trump to hold news conference on census as he mulls executive action to add a citizenship question: President Trump said Thursday that he will hold a news conference later in the day on his administration’s efforts to place a controversial citizenship question on the 2020 Census. The event in the Rose … Read more
New allegations of child abuse in Yuma migrant detention center
July 10, 2019
On Sunday, the New York Times in conjunction with the El Paso Times published an investigative report on the horrible conditions inside the Clint, Texas migrant detention center. Hungry, Scared and Sick: Inside the Migrant Detention Center in Clint, Tex. (excerpt): [I]nside the secretive site that is now on the front lines of the southwest … Read more
Martha McSally gets her first primary challenger, meet Ann Griffin
July 10, 2019
Arizona’s appointed Senator, Martha McSally, has been trying to cast herself as a feminist voice against sexual assault in the U.S. military. How Sen. Martha McSally wants to prevent sexual assault in the military, and Sen. Martha McSally pushes to criminalize sexual harassment in military, add lawyers for victims. This is all well and good, … Read more
Oral argument in Texas v. Azar (‘Obamacare’ appeal) does not go as legal experts predicted
July 10, 2019
This is why “The Enemy of The People,” the “Grim Reaper” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, is focused on packing the federal courts with unvetted and unqualified conservative activist ideologues who have the Federalist Society’s stamp of approval, reactionaries who want to roll back the 20th Century and return to the Lochner era (1890 to 1937) … Read more
The Arizona Corporation Commission Arizona wants to hear from YOU on Clean Energy.
July 10, 2019
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The Arizona Corporation Commission is considering several renewable clean energy standards that will be voted on this Fall and wants to HEAR WHAT YOU THINK. Robert “Bob” Burns, the Chairperson of the Commission, in a June 7, 2019 letter (link at the end of the article,) has given the public until the end of business … Read more
Colonel Amy McGrath to take on Enemy of the People-Grim Reaper Mitch McConnell in 2020.
July 9, 2019
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Before declaring her candidacy for the Democratic Nomination for the Kentucky Senate Seat held by Mitch McConnell, Colonel Amy McGrath has already proven she is more of a patriot, willing to fight and serve the United States, than the Obstructionist in Chief-Grim Reaper-Enemy of the People Senate Majority Leader. She (and her husband) have demonstrated … Read more
