Medicare-for-all to get a hearing before the House Budget Committee today
May 22, 2019
The Washington Post reports, Single-payer health care gets a second Captiol Hill hearing today. Medicare-for-all is poised for another big day on Capitol Hill, as the House Budget Committee convenes this morning to examine the intricacies and challenges of any U.S. transition to a unified health-care system run by the government. As in a similar … Read more
House to vote on the Dream Act and Promise Act today
May 22, 2019
The House Judiciary Committee will vote Wednesday on legislation that would provide a pathway to citizenship for more than 1 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. And yes, Democrats can investigate Trump and do public policy at the same time. CNN reports House Judiciary set to review bills to protect Dreamers and TPS recipients: … Read more
#StopTheBans Pro-Choice Rallies Draw 100s in #AZ (video)
May 22, 2019
Across the nation today, men and women were protesting stringent anti-abortion bills that have passed in at least eight states recently. There was an impressive rally with close to 200 people at the Capitol today in Phoenix and even more in Tucson. Alabama’s bill is the most recent and the most stringent. It is essentially … Read more
ExPhoenix Mayor and State Attorney General Terry Goddard Spearhead a New Outlaw Dirty Money Initiative
May 22, 2019
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APS holds a blind auction for two State Corporation Seats in 2014, bankrolling the two candidates that agree with their rate hiking agenda. The State Legislature, led by Vince “Dark Money is Good” Leach, has adopted measures to attack the enforceability of voter-approved Dark Money Ordinances in Tempe (which passed with 91 percent voter approval) … Read more
The problem is we cannot impeach the Republican Party along with their ‘Dear Leader’
May 21, 2019
Greg Sargent of the Washington Post recently made an astute observation about impeachment, Democratic equivocation over impeachment is a moral and political disaster: Democrats have also suggested that an impeachment inquiry should be avoided until Republicans grow convinced that removal is merited, because without that an inquiry would divide the country or isn’t worth doing … Read more
“Privacy Hound” Martha McSally Doesn’t Vote Her Values
May 21, 2019
Q: “I want to get to privacy. One of your aides told me, you just want to scream when you think of this issue — and you deal with it on the Banking Committee. What is it that makes you want to scream?” McSally: “Look, I am not — I think I’m out of … Read more
As State Budget details emerge, Republicans show they want the Political Sandbox all for Themselves.
May 21, 2019
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Worried Educators and Public School Advocacy Group members from Save Our Schools (S.O.S.), the Arizona Education Association (A.E.A.), and Red for Ed started to fill the capital on May 20 as details of a Republican only negotiated budget compromise, high on tax cuts and short on education funding, were revealed late Monday afternoon. Seeing the … Read more
The ‘Voucher Vultures’ are using Navajo children as pawns in their game
May 21, 2019
I warned you the other day about the approach of sine die and zombie bills being revived from the dead without public input or debate. March 29 was the last day for House consideration of Senate bills, and Senate consideration of House bills. April 19 was the last day for conference committees to consider bills. … Read more
