Secret GQP Budget Negotiations Are No Closer To Agreement, 3 Weeks To A Government Shutdown (Updated)

As the budget stalemate at the state Capitol drags on, lame-duck Governor Doug Ducey and Republican legislative leaders have agreed to a budget “framework,” one which includes more than a half billion dollars for fencing and other border security measures, but one which shortchanges public education. This is in keeping with the GQP’s 2022 midterm … Read more

Another View of Arizona’s Bizzaro World GQP-Controlled Legislature

Update to Days After A Massacre Of Fourth Graders, Arizona Senate Republicans Kill Democratic Attempt For A Background Checks Bill. Fernanda Santos writes in an op-ed at the Washington Post, What the Arizona GOP’s response to Uvalde reveals: Republican legislators in Arizona have offered more than thoughts and prayers to the innocent victims massacred in … Read more

Rep. Michelle Udall’s Anti-Anti-Racism Bill Doesn’t Have The Votes In The Senate

The last week of May, Republicans in the Arizona House revived their white Christian Nationalist cancel culture bill regarding anti-Critical Race Theory (CRT), something that not one of them can accurately define or demontrate that they understand. For these white Christian Nationalists, anything that might make their little “snowflake” kids feel uncomfortable about America’s long … Read more

Days After A Massacre Of Fourth Graders, Arizona Senate Republicans Kill Democratic Attempt For A Background Checks Bill

So the Arizona Republic did one of those useless speculation pieces, The Gaggle: How will state lawmakers react after tragic school shooting in Texas? Ooh! Ooh! I know! The AP reports, Arizona Senate Democrats force vote on gun background checks: Minority Democrats in the Arizona Senate used a procedural move Tuesday to force a vote … Read more