Last week, the Arizona Senate approved the Senate Ethics Committee investigating Sen. Wendy Rogers (R-Flagstaff), a white Christian Natonalist and QAnon cult member who has a disturbing history of outlandish and racist comments on social media, for her most recent posting. The Senate Ethics Committee is where investigations go to die. The whole point of this … Read more
Update to Something Wicked This Way Comes: The GQP Primary For Secretary of State(June 2021) (excerpt): We saw this earlier this year [2021] right here in Arizona. As I posted at the time, Authoritarian Rethuglicans Propose The Most Blatant Voter Disenfranchisement Bill Ever (Updated) (excerpt): Now comes along the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clint … Read more
Above Image: From Politico, ‘Down the rabbit hole’: Arizona GOP goes full fringe. The Arizona Mirror reports, A dozen Arizona GOP lawmakers follow at least 1 far-right Facebook group: More than 1 in 5 Republican state lawmakers across the country have joined at least one far-right Facebook group, according to a new report. In Arizona, … Read more
Arizona has a law from its territorial days in 1901, that was incorporated into the Arizona Revised Statutes when Arizona became a state in 1912, which criminalizes abortion. This law has never been repealed, even after Roe v. Wade rendered it unenforceable in 1973, almost 50 years ago. If Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood … Read more
Above: h/t Arizona Mirror (Getty photo). But of course he did. Arizona governor signs so-called ‘parental rights’ bill: Gov. Doug Ducey on Friday signed legislation that greatly expands the rights of parents to know anything their children tell a teacher or school counselor, the latest Republican [culture war] to promote “parental rights” ahead of the … Read more