Robbing public schools to pay for private school vouchers
June 19, 2019
I had set aside this excellent reporting from Brenna Bailey at the Arizona Daily Star to get around to later on the topic of Arizona’s structural revenue deficit. Tucson educators: 2020 Arizona budget ‘Band-Aid approach’ to K-12 funding crisis: Gov. Doug Ducey and the Arizona Legislature have touted their decision to invest $660 million new dollars … Read more
About Arizona’s unconstitutional state budget
June 19, 2019
Doug Ducey, the ice cream man hired by Koch Industries to run their Southwest subsidiary formerly known as the state of Arizona, recently penned an op-ed for The Arizona Republic aka the “McMedia” (for its daily reporting on the reality TV stars ‘The McCains”), extolling his recently passed state budget. Gov. Ducey: Why this year’s … Read more
How to Respond to Demagoguery on Immigration
June 19, 2019
As a proud progressive Democrat, I find myself called upon to counter right-wing demagoguery on immigration on the regular. You probably do too. We can never let these views go unchallenged because they have intuitive power and popular appeal. Here’s how to respond effectively and, somewhat, briefly to such demagogic assertions. Demagoguery 1: “There is … Read more
The ‘Grim Reaper’ blockades the ‘people’s agenda’ in the House
June 19, 2019
One of Donald Trump’s favorite lies is to claim that House Democrats “are getting nothing done in Congress.” What he really means to say is that House Democrats are not being servile, like lickspittle Republicans, and bowing down before “Dear Leader” to give him everything he wants without all that troublesome democracy stuff getting in … Read more
Republican economic policies are building to fiscal calamity in September
June 18, 2019
Adding to the mountain of statistical evidence showing the severity of U.S. inequality, an analysis published last Friday found that the top one percent of Americans gained $21 trillion in wealth since 1989 while the bottom 50 percent lost $900 billion. Jake Johnson writes at Common Dreams, ‘Eye-Popping’: Analysis Shows Top 1% Gained $21 Trillion … Read more
Is Joe Biden Naive about Republicans?
June 18, 2019
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All Americans should hope Joe Biden is right about his ability to forge consensus with Republicans and strike deals with them and his fellow Democrats if he becomes President in 2021. Democracy can not succeed when one of its main political parties has become backward and is the beacon of warring against good government. Unfortunately, … Read more
(UPDATED) A Conversation with Democratic Congressional Six District Candidate Stephanie Rimmer
June 18, 2019
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Arizona Congressional District Six, despite ethically embattled Republican incumbent David Schweikert’s arrogant hubris contention to the Arizona Mirror, is in play for a potential Democratic pickup in 2020. Currently, there are four well-qualified Democrats vying to run against Schweikert in 2020. The first is 2018 CD Six nominee Antia Malik. The second is 2018 CD … Read more
Jon Stewart delivers as an advocate for the 9/11 first responders
June 18, 2019
Last week the former host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, who has emerged as a spokesman for the first responders on 9/11 in New York and their advocate for the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund, gave an impassioned speech for renewal of the fund before the House Judiciary Committee. Many members of the committee … Read more
