I drove to Phoenix last Thursday (May 7) because Speaker Rusty Bowers and President Karen Fann had called the Legislature back for a sine die vote (a vote to end the second session of the 54th Legislature). We have been adjourned and working remotely since March 23. Unfortunately, I made that trip for nothing. On May 7, … Read more
Content Warning: The following post includes a discussion of sexual assault and domestic violence. It has been quite an eventful legislative session already for everyone’s favorite misogynist grifter state legislator, Eddie Farnsworth. He made national news last week when a hearing he was chairing devolved into chaos because of his poor leadership. After activist Hugo … Read more
If Arizona Republicans were so confident their views and policies had the blessings of the majority of the people, then they would not be resorting to measures designed to hinder those citizen’s right to vote. They should also not be afraid to hear from citizens requesting to speak out against these measures at State Senate … Read more
Lynsey Robinson wants to continue the fight to put Arizona Legislative District 12 in the Democratic Orbit. The legislative district, which includes all or parts of Gilbert, Queen Creek, and San Tan Valley, saw dramatic increases in Democratic Party involvement in 2018 over previous election cycles. Democrats fielded two candidates (Lynsey Robinson and Joe Bisaccia) … Read more
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) needs only one more state to ratify it before it can become an amendment to the US Constitution. Although State Senator Sandra Day O’Connor and Arizona State Rep. Sister Claire Dunn proposed ratification, Arizona is one of the laggard states that never ratified the ERA in the 1970s. Both Senator … Read more