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Arizona GQP Divides Along Class Lines Into Establishment Chamber Of Commerce Republicans And An Anti-Establishment MAGA/QAnon Cult

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Jack Healy reports at the New York Times, Class Divisions Harden Into Battle Lines in Arizona’s Republican Primary (excerpt): The Aug. 2 Republican primary in Arizona has been cast as a party-defining contest between traditional Republicans and Trump loyalists, with the power to reshape a political battleground at the heart of fights over voting rights … Read more

If You Want Corporate Accountability, ‘Drop The Chamber’

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Update to Corporate Accountability: Defund The Chambers of Commerce: 72 Black business executives published a letter in The New York Times urging corporate leaders to speak out. Nearly 200 companies speaking out against voting law changes in Texas, other states: Nearly 200 companies on Friday joined in a strong statement against proposals that threaten to … Read more

Corporate Accountability: Defund The Chambers of Commerce

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Update to Corporate Accountability Backlash To Jim Crow 2.0 Voter Suppression Bills (Updated). 72 Black business executives published a letter in The New York Times urging corporate leaders to speak out. Nearly 200 companies speaking out against voting law changes in Texas, other states: Nearly 200 companies on Friday joined in a strong statement against … Read more

Evil GOP bastards reject the will of the voters on Minimum Wage Initiative (Prop. 206)

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Rep. Paul Gosar is Arizona’s most embarrassing member of Congress, but in the Arizona legislature, there are a multitude of challengers for the title of most embarrassing member of the legislature.

A perennial contender is Sen. Sylvia “Earth is 6,000 years old” Allen (R-Snowflake), a theocratic Dominionist Christian Reconstructionist whose heretical views of Christianity too frequently influence the legislation she advances.

Sen. Allen’s latest dog bone to chew on is the Minimum Wage Initiative (Prop. 206) overwhelmingly approved by Arizona voters in 2016. She believes that you the voters were “immoral” in approving the Minimum Wage Initiative, and she wants to reverse the will of you sinful voters. You’re all going to Hell!

The Arizona Capitol Times reports, Senate committee passes resolution to repeal state’s minimum wage:

A resolution sponsored by Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, would ask voters to undue much of Proposition 206, a citizen-driven initiative that boosted Arizona’s minimum wage from $8.05 to $10 in 2017, $10.50 in 2018 and eventually to $12 by 2020. Allen’s resolution would also repeal mandated paid sick time and a provision that allows domestic violence victims to take paid sick leave to handle issues caused by the violence.

Allen, who in the past has described the notion of minimum wage as “morally flawed,” wants voters to freeze the minimum wage at $10.50, repeal state laws requiring employers to provide paid sick leave, and adopt a new law prohibiting cities, counties or towns from adopting their own minimum wage if it’s higher than the state’s.

Mandating a minimum wage is like “pulling money from one person to give to another person,” she told the Senate Commerce and Public Safety Committee on Monday.

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Strange way for the head of the AZ Chamber to act

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Crossposted from DemocraticDiva.com

Glenn Hamer
Glenn Hamer: “You know, [business considering locating in AZ], you have a pretty face but would be cuter if you’d lose a few pounds!.”

It has long been my understanding that business leaders care deeply about education. They want skilled workers and the quality of school systems is a major factor in decisions about where they will locate new plants and corporate headquarters, so the conventional wisdom goes. But this must not be true for some of them, because this Saturday AZ Republic oped by Glenn Hamer, President of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce, was strangely querulous and snide in response to a report that Phoenix was turned down by at least one company due to Arizona’s poor reputation in education.

A recent report that two companies passed over the Phoenix area for relocation is raising big questions about our state’s economic development strategy and our education system.

What can we do better to land top employers? Is our K-12 system up to snuff to attract the most demanding firms? Do we have enough quality schools?

The central question we should be asking, however, is whether these companies had access to Google. A simple search would have revealed that Arizona is an excellent place to invest and grow for a number of reasons, including our educational system.

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