From the Twitterverse. According to Gov. Doug Ducey, his putting an anti-Semitic white nationalist into office is better than having a Democrat (read about heroic nurse and veteran Felicia French) in office. He could not bring himself to condemn state Sen. Wendy Rogers for embracing the white Christian nationalist movement. Something the two of you … Read more
Above Image: h/t the Arizona Mirror. The Daily Beast reports, The America First Political Action Conference Is Courting Republicans Towards Extremism: White nationalist activists and their sympathizers in today’s far-right U.S. political scene are set to gather this week for a conference meant to showcase their movement’s numbers and its successes courting Republican Party influence … Read more
Last October, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge James Smith blocked Arizona from collecting $1.1 million from the city of Flagstaff to compensate for its minimum wage that is higher than the state’s rate, ruling that the state missed a deadline for the assessment and was stretching a law targeting higher voter-approved city wages to collect its … Read more
Last week MSNBC’s Joy Reid reported on a Black teen handcuffed by police at mall while white teen was scared of what could’ve happened (MSNBC Video. YouTube requires an account to sign in to view this video). “Z’Kye Husain, the Black teenager who was pinned to the ground and handcuffed by police at a NJ … Read more
First of all, Arizona counties do not have enough resources appropriated by the state legislature to conduct elections. They are always being shortchanged. This is why counties accepted grants from civic groups in 2020 to cover their actual costs of running an election during a Covid pandemic. This too was the subject of wild-eyed MAGA/QAnon … Read more