Often when the House Democrats go into caucus, we were greeted with a HUGE list of bills to consider that morning. Such was the case a few weeks ago when the caucus agenda was several pages long, including two pages of proposals attacking your rights. Since the staff didn’t receive the caucus agenda until about … Read more
Republicans have spent weeks and employed multiple levels of parliamentary procedures to ram Senator Cathi Herrod’s … er … Senator Nancy Barto’s fetal personhood bill through both houses … twice. SB1457 died in the Senate earlier in April, but the Republicans brought the zombie bill back to life for a do-over. SB1457 inserts BIG government … Read more
The Arizona Mirror reports on this morning’s hearing, which is now on appeal to a duty justice of the Arizona Supreme Court for a hearing this afternoon. Dems won’t post $1M bond, so election audit won’t be paused: Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Christopher Coury ruled that the audit must halt from 5 p.m. Friday … Read more
Update to Corporate Accountability Backlash To Jim Crow 2.0 Voter Suppression Bills (Updated). 72 Black business executives published a letter in The New York Times urging corporate leaders to speak out. Nearly 200 companies speaking out against voting law changes in Texas, other states: Nearly 200 companies on Friday joined in a strong statement against … Read more
You can’t make this stuff up. The bizarro world reality we are forced to live in here in Arizona because of the MAGA/QAnon conspiracy cult that controls our state legislature is stranger than fiction. The Arizona Mirror reports, Senate won’t say who is funding the election audit or allow media access: A heated press conference … Read more