Phoenix Law Enforcement Making Strides to Help Victims and Take Guns Off the Street
Phoenix Law Enforcement, in their mission to fight crime, took two important steps this week to help victims of abuse and take guns off the street. The first step is the initiative from the Phoenix Police Foundation to raise largely private funds to create a new Victims Center within the current Family Investigations Bureau at … Read more
Democrats Are Busy Investing In The Future Of America, While Republicans Are Busy Trying To Destroy American Democracy
Democrats are busy investing in the future of America, while Republicans are busy trying to destroy American democracy. Democrats have enjoyed a remarkable string of legislative victories heading into the August recess this year. This is a win for all Americans. David Rothkopf writes at The Daily Beast, Dems Do Big F*cking Deals, the GOP Does … Read more
Republicans, YOU Are The Threat To American Democracy
Case in point: Doug Mastriano, the White Christian Nationalist, QAnon cultist, and insurrectionist who was at the MAGA/QAnon insurrection on January 6, 2021, and is now the Republican nominee for governor. “Mainstream” Republicans opposed Mastriano in the Republican primary because he is a dangerous extremist, but guess what? Once Alarmed, Mainstream Pennsylvania Republicans Unite Around … Read more
It’s Time to Vote a Straight Ticket
At least the primary elections are over, and here is the message for Democrats in Arizona: extremist Republicans are dangerous. An optimistic view (and I always strive to be optimistic) is that the radical-right Republicans, led by the twice-Impeached former president, are turning off the less-committed Republican centrist voters who will flock to the Democratic … Read more
Superior Court Judge Rules In Favor of The Stop Dark Money Initiative
I’m not sure why the political reporters in this state have not reported on this, but Republic columnist Laurie Roberts reports that the Voters’ Right to Know Act aka the Stop Dark Money inititiative survived its Superior Court challlenge from the very same dark money groups (expect an appeal to the Arizona Supreme Court). Laurie Roberts writes, Score … Read more
Robert Robb, Senator Sinema, and the Fallacy of Tax Rates’ Effect on Economic Growth
Recently, Arizona columnist Robert Robb, well known for his conservative economic views, wrote a post on his Substack defending Senator Kirsten Sinema’s resistance to Democratic priorities for changes to the tax code in the Inflation Reduction Act – specifically increases on certain top corporate and personal rates, and eliminating the grotesque ‘carried interest’ exception for … Read more
Speculation Turns To ‘Fredo’ As The ‘Insider’ FBI Informant In The Trump Crime Family
Business Insider reports, Trump aides think a family member informed on him to the FBI because agents knew where to find a specific leather case, report says: Aides to former President Donald Trump believe that a member of his family may have tipped off the FBI about the presence of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, The … Read more
