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The Republican Answer to ESA Waste, Fraud, and Abuse: Put it in the State Constitution and Let’s Deregulate Charter Schools While We’re at it.

June 19, 2025 by David Gordon

Another school year. Another $20,000,000 in free luxury expenses for private after school extracurricular activities that many of Arizona’s wealthiest, the people who do not need the money, legally fleece from the Empowerment Scholarship Private School Voucher Account appropriations that working and middle class taxpayers put into state coffers. Additional reporting from Craig Harris has … Read more

Someone Should Ask Kimberly Yee if Purchasing an AK47 for a Seven Year Old Would be a Legitimate Expense for Arizona’s ESA Program

June 4, 2025May 29, 2025 by David Gordon

With the support of MAGA “Fake Elector,” “Troll Farm” and Hobbs obstructionist Jake Hoffman, Arizona State Treasurer Kimberly Yee has declared her candidacy to become the next Superintendent of Public Instruction and overseer of the billion dollar a year Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA)-Arizona Private School Voucher-Home School Indoctrination and Welfare for the Wealthy Program. Yee, … Read more

12 News Craig Harris Confirms What Everyone Mostly Knew: Arizona Private School Vouchers Are Welfare for the Wealthy and an Invitation to Commit Fraud

May 28, 2025 by David Gordon

Over the last week, 12 News and AZ Central Investigative Reporter Craig Harris has broadcast a series of reports on the now billion dollar a year Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA)-Private School Voucher Program that MAGA Republicans would like to formalize in the State Constitution. The apparent conclusions from Harris’s reporting (there are still more … Read more

“Shady” Republicans Stack the Deck at the State House Appropriations Committee to Stop Help for Disabled Children

April 29, 2025April 15, 2025 by David Gordon

In a move that Arizona House Democratic Leader Oscar De Santos called “Shady” on social media, MAGA Republican Leadership at the State Legislature, when they realized there was bipartisan support for an amendment offered by Representative Julie Willoughby to a legislative proposal to provide supplemental funding assistance to children with disabilities, decided to stack the … Read more

Repulsive: Arizona MAGA Republican Hypocrisy on Supplemental Funding Requests

March 10, 2025 by David Gordon

Nauseating and Sickening were descriptors applied to previous articles on Arizona MAGA Republicans protecting welfare for the rich programs like the Empowerment Scholarship Account private school voucher program and tax cuts for the wealthy while screwing over funding for children with disabilities. In reporting from AZ Central, House Appropriations Chair David Livingston who railed against … Read more

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