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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

Governor Hobbs Asks Arizona Legislators to Work With Her to Fulfill Arizona’s Promise

January 19, 2025January 13, 2025 by David Gordon

The constant theme in Governor Katie Hobbs’s third State of the State Address before a joint session of the Arizona State Legislature was the need to work together to fulfill Arizona’s Promise. Whether invoking the legacies of Arizona political stalwarts like Sandra Day O’Connor, Bruce Babbit, Raul Castro, Barry Goldwater, and John McCain or saluting … Read more

Tom Horne and the Arizona Board of Education Keep Deepening the Abyss of Potential ESA Fraud

December 27, 2024December 12, 2024 by David Gordon

Arizona’s Attorney General indicted an out-of-state couple on December 2 for fraudulently siphoning off $110,000 in state taxpayer funds through 43 ghost/phantom school vouchers (ESAs). Ignoring the fraud, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne notified the State Board of Education 10 days later that the state would immediately issue funds for all expense requests … Read more