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
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
Rep. John Kavanagh behaving badly, abusing a member of his committee: Under the House Rules: Rule 14 C: No member shall vote for another, nor shall any person not a member cast a vote for a member. In addition to such penalties as may be prescribed by law, any member who shall vote or attempt … Read more
Who knew that the series of children’s books “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” is actually the true life account of Doug Ducey, the ice cream man hired by Koch Industries to run their Southwest subsidiary formerly known as the state of Arizona? (My apologies to Wimpy Kid for the analogy). This man has a spine … Read more
Authoritarian wannabe tinpot dictator, Donald Trump, said the quiet part out loud last year: “They had things [in the bill], levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” Trump said during an appearance on Fox & Friends [of Fascism]. After losing the election … Read more