Bitter Budget Battle Underway In The AZ Legislature

To reiterate what I posted the other day, the budget “is a deal brokered in secret among just Republicans, and sprung upon the legislature at the last minute without committee hearings or any public input or debate. The goal is to ram it through, jam it through the legislature with just Republican votes to pass … Read more

‘Ax The Flat Tax’ From This GQP-Only Fantasy Budget

Don’t say I didn’t try to warn you. ‘Ax The Flat Tax’ Talk Before This Damn Fool Idea Is Sprung On Us At The Last Minute: For those of you who were not born yesterday, you know that the state budget negotiated between the governor and Republican legislative leaders, and their favored stakeholders like the … Read more

WaPo: Arizona is now ground zero in Republicans’ war on voting

The Washington Post editorializes today, Arizona is now ground zero in Republicans’ war on voting: Undeterred by the backlash to Georgia’s new anti-voting law, Arizona Republicans have made their state ground zero in the party’s spurious efforts to question the 2020 election results and restrict voting. First, they insisted on running a chaotic “audit” of … Read more

Maricopa County: ‘This Board Is Done Explaining Anything To These People,’ End The ‘Fraudit’

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, and other county elected officials, held a preemptive meeting on Monday to discuss the letter from Senator “Krazy Karen” Fann demanding more information from the county for her Arizona Senate’s GQP sham “fraudit,” and inviting supervisors to meet with GQP senators on Tuesday. The response from Maricopa County to … Read more