Gov. Doug Ducey sold voters a bill of goods with his Prop. 123 in 2018, promising to raise teacher pay by 20% by the 2020-2021 school year, to end the Red For Ed teacher walkouts. Just last month, Arizona has the lowest wages for teachers in the nation, report finds: Teacher pay in Arizona can’t … Read more
I touched upon this earlier this week, Arizona House sends measure boosting voter ID to ballot: The Republican-controlled Arizona House on Monday joined the GOP-led state Senate in approving a measure that will ask voters in November to drastically boost identification requirements needed for in-person and mail voting in the battleground state. The referral mirrors … Read more
There are somewhere in the neighborhood of a 100 election bills that have been introduced in the Arizona legislature this year by the MAGA/QAnon election deniers promoting Donald Trump’s Big Lie that the election was stolen from him through fraud. This week the bills that have been run through the Senate Government Committee chaired by … Read more
Update to White Nationalist Extremists In The Arizona GQP Are Trying To Normalize Fascism (Updated). In 2018, the Republican-controlled Arizona House of Representatives approved a resolution stating that “the House of Representatives finds that [Republican] Representative Don Shooter’s pattern of conduct was dishonorable and unbecoming of a member.” Arizona House expels Rep. Don Shooter, citing … Read more
Above: Editorial: Trump’s ‘beautiful wall’ is a vanity project and nothing more. Democrats should treat it as such: [T]his debate isn’t, and never has been, about the best way to secure the border. It’s about the symbolism of the wall. To Trump, it’s the embodiment of his Fortress America approach to the rest of the … Read more