Arizona’s “Wimpy Kid” Governor Doug Ducey caved to pressure from the MAGA/QAnon mob of COVID deniers and insurrectionists, and signed two controversial bills late Friday — one that exempts businesses from following mask mandates, and another that bans private funds for election administration. The Arizona Republic reports, Ducey signs bill to let businesses ignore mask mandates; law … Read more
Republicans in the Arizona Senate voted Wednesday to block counties from applying for private grants to make up for state funding shortfalls that the counties say they need to properly run elections. So much for their feigned concern about election integrity and security. Howard Fischer reports, Arizona Senate OKs prohibiting counties from applying for private … Read more
American Oversight is a non-partisan, nonprofit ethics watchdog that uses public records requests backed by litigation to expose official misconduct, threats to democracy, and abuses of power at all levels of government. On Tuesday, American Oversight launched an investigation into the Arizona Senate’s partisan audit of the 2020 presidential election ballots cast in Maricopa County, … Read more
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has lost his mind over corporate accountability, corporations speaking out in favor of voting rights in the wake of GQP Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression laws being enacted by state legislatures around the country based upon Donald Trump’s Big Lie that the election was stolen from him. McConnell is starting … Read more
The Washington Post editorializes Arizona Republicans’ desperate crusade to find nonexistent voter fraud: Arizona Senate President Karen Fann (R) says she is determined to “ensure the integrity of the vote” in her state. Which is supposedly why, five months after Election Day, following multiple credible audits that found no hint of substantial fraud, she insists … Read more