Arizona Deserves Better, Stop Dark Money, and Invest in Arizona Launch Weekend Telethon Today to Get Final Petition Signatures

Time is running out to collect 119,000 qualifying petition signatures on six 2022 ballot initiatives each to stop Republican efforts to gut Invest in Ed, and the suppression of voting rights. There is also a seventh ballot initiative designed to stop the continuing influence of Dark Money in Arizona politics. To that end, Stop Dark … Read more

Meanwhile in the Trump Zone, Townsend and Finchem Make Awful News

Even when the Arizona Legislative Session is over, fringe Trump Zone Zealots Kelly Townsend and Mark Finchem are in the news and it is for all the wrong reasons. Townsend, the Legislative District (LD) 16 Senator caught the attention of journalists and columnists at AZ Central and the Arizona Mirror by again equating the push … Read more

Former Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes launches bid to become Arizona’s Next Secretary of State

With incumbent Secretary of State Katie Hobbs running for Governor, former Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes has declared his intention to succeed her in the 2022 elections. The Maricopa County Recorder from 2017 to 2021, Mr. Fontes oversaw the modernization of that office and, despite the COVID 19 pandemic, presided over one of the highest … Read more

Arizona is Bluer but More Needs to be Done

Overall, Democrats in Arizona did do well in the November 3, 2020 elections. Joe Biden became the first Democrat since Bill Clinton in 1996 to win Arizona in the Presidential Election. For the first time since 1953, Arizona will be represented by two Democratic Senators (Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly.) Anna Tovar will bring an … Read more