Seeking to frame the budget debate against MAGA Republicans at the State Capitol, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has taken several steps the last couple of days to showcase how her and Democratic priorities are better suited to the needs of Arizonans than their opponents. Among those steps is a released proposal to renew funding for … Read more
A Beginning. Recognizing that they have to improve their messaging and outreach efforts to their constituents, Arizona Legislative Democrats hosted an education town hall yesterday evening at Memorial Hall off Indian School in Phoenix. In what will hopefully be the first of these issue oriented outreach efforts, Ranking Democratic Member of the House Education Committee … Read more
Sickening. That is what voters across Arizona should feel toward Republicans in the Arizona State Legislature like House Appropriations Chair David Livingston who is looking to anticipated cuts in federal outlays from the Musk/Trump/Vance Administration as a way to cut vital social programs like those who support developmentally disabled children. Watch this exchange between Livingston … Read more
Donald Trump wants to do for Public Education in America what Republicans have done in Arizona. Screw it! Earlier this evening (January 29, 2025,) Mr. Trump issued three Executive Orders dealing with Education. One of them, an attempt to end the teaching of “critical race theory” in public schools across the country will be addressed … Read more
For Arizona Democrats, Independents, and Never-Trump Republicans, this is how it is done. Yesterday on Sunday Square Off with Brahm Resnik, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes masterly framed the arguments against Donald Trump’s move to end Birthright Citizenship as enshrined in the United States Consitution’s Fourteenth Amendment. Please watch her interview with Resnik below. She … Read more