It has been a bad week for ethically embattled Congressional District Six Representative David Schweikert (R-Scottsdale). First, election predictors at Roll Call-Inside Elections. have downgraded his bid for reelection from Solid to Likely Republican. The Cook Report has the race in a worse state for Schweikert, rating Congressional District Six “Lean Republican.” Second, in a … Read more
Once upon a time, Republicans were leaders in Environmental Protection. It was Republican Presidents (Grant and Harrison) that started designating lands as national forests and parks that fellow Republican President Theodore Roosevelt expanded and codified into law. It was a Republican President (Nixon) that signed the law that created the Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean … Read more
Article 11 of the State Constitution of Arizona deals with public education. Section six concerns higher education at the state’s public universities. It states “instruction” at state universities “shall (not should) be as free as possible.” Well, according to a new study from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Arizona “Public Servants” (Republicans) in … Read more
Republicans are playing defense in the money game in Arizona. Arizona Democrats are doing very well in fundraising this election cycle with the latest reports showing that the State Party has outraised their Republican counterparts. Why is this occurring? One of the reasons is Republican State Party Chair Kelli Ward has not been the warm … Read more
Superman is vulnerable to Kryptonite. Dracula is repelled by the cross. Small children sometimes gag at the thought of having to eat vegetables at dinner. For Republicans, sponsoring and participating in town halls with actual constituents in attendance asking questions about policy and the Presidents (and their) behaviors is apparently the equivalent of Superman’s being … Read more