Jordan Green reports at RawStory, Trump’s fake Arizona electors got the green light from a scholar with ties to major conservative groups: When Republican lawmakers in Arizona convened in December 2020 to forward an alternate slate of electors to Congress in a bid to overturn the election of Joe Biden, they were acting on the … Read more
Arizona Senator Karen Fann is the board treasurer for the “Kochtopus” network’s American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the country’s pre-eminent pay-to-play corporate lobbying group. The Center for Media and Democracy reports, Top ALEC Official Is Ringleader of Arizona Election Audit Circus: The public face of the preposterous Maricopa County ballot audit is Republican Arizona State Senate … Read more
What does “defund the police” mean to you? Following the tragic and unnecessary deaths of George Floyd, Dion Johnson, Rayshard Brooks, Carlos Ingram Lopez and others at the hands of law enforcement officers, there have been calls to “defund the police.” Often the same people who say “defund the police” also add “that doesn’t mean … Read more
The Arizona House of Representatives has been adjourned since March 23, 2020, due to the COVID19 pandemic. Some of us wanted to vote to sine die (end the session) on March 23 and come back later for special session(s) focused on COVID19 public health and economic issues. Others– mostly Republicans– wanted to stay in session and … Read more
I drove to Phoenix last Thursday (May 7) because Speaker Rusty Bowers and President Karen Fann had called the Legislature back for a sine die vote (a vote to end the second session of the 54th Legislature). We have been adjourned and working remotely since March 23. Unfortunately, I made that trip for nothing. On May 7, … Read more