OOPS, I DID IT AGAIN, PART ___: McSally Campaign Accepts Excessive Contributions and Repeats Other Issues
February 1, 2019
Arizona Senator Martha McSally may have “built the best compliance team in the country”, but that team continues to struggle properly dealing with the volume of contributions that she received during (and after) her unsuccessful campaign to defeat Kyrsten Sinema for the retired Senator Jeff Flake’s seat. The day that FEC employees got back from … Read more
Donald Trump is the greatest national security threat to the United States
February 1, 2019
In the chaos theory of governance of the Trump administration, so much craziness happens every day that it is easy to overlook important events in the din of noise. Which is really the whole point of chaos theory. Trump wants to overwhelm the senses with the vast volume of his craziness every day so that … Read more
Action Alert: Tell your state senator to vote no on GOP voter suppression bills
January 31, 2019
In Arizona, nearly all municipal elections are now conducted by mail-in ballots. For state and federal elections, in 2018 more than 80 percent of the votes cast in Arizona were by early ballots (which include mail-in ballots dropped off on Election Day). Arizona should be following the lead of Oregon (2000), Washington (2011) and Colorado (2013) which hold … Read more
ACLU of Arizona’s “Sixty Years of Daring to Create a More Perfect Arizona” exhibit opening at Arizona History Museum
January 31, 2019
This traveling exhibit is closing at Etherton Gallery (135 S.6th Avenue) on Feb. 2nd, moving to the Arizona History Museum, 949 E. 2nd Street on Feb. 5 (to March 5), 2019. From Tucson the exhibit travels to Prescott, Flagstaff, Phoenix, Winslow, and back to Tempe where it started. “HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ACLU OF ARIZONA’S 60 … Read more
Allen Sales Tax Plan to help fund Education is deemed “regressive” by many Democrats.
January 31, 2019
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Education funding after last years Red for Ed Movement will continue to dominate discussions in Arizona Political and Economic Circles this year and next. While the 20 percent raises for instructors and staff over two years and other increases in education funding (like extending Proposition 301) passed by the legislature are certainly helpful, it still does … Read more
We need to talk about marginal tax rates
January 30, 2019
Earlier this month, freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, was interviewed by Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes. One brief comment she made about taxes has the billionaire plutocrats of the New Gilded Age clutching their pearls and attacking her as a proxy for attacking progressive tax policy in general: Anderson Cooper: … Read more
The GOP tax cut scam was even worse than you imagined
January 30, 2019
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes did a brief segment on Monday night’s episode of All In with Chris Hayes about a new economics report that got lost in all the noise of the corporate media’s fixation this week with Billionaire plutocrats of the New Gilded Age dismissing progressive proposals to increase taxes on the super-wealthy to address … Read more
