2022 was mostly a good news story for the Maricopa County Democratic Party. Most of the statewide candidates including Katie Hobbs, Adrian Fontes, Kris Mayes, Kathy Hoffman, and Mark Kelly won the fourth-largest county in the country. Local Legislative District (LD) and philosophically aligned school board candidates performed according to electoral expectations. Perhaps the only … Read more
It did not take long for many of Arizona’s leading Democratic voices to denounce the Pima County Superior Court Ruling taking away abortion rights and putting in place a ban from 1864 that would not provide exceptions for rape, incest, or severe birth defects. This in effect makes women second-class citizens in the Grand Canyon … Read more
The candidates for the Maricopa County Attorney Special Election have been selected. The Republicans have chosen County Attorney Rachel Mitchell to represent them. Democrats, in a record time to submit candidate petitions, selected 2020 County Nominee Julie Gunnigle. In a previous interview with the Blog for Arizona, Ms. Gunnigle pledged to fight corruption at the … Read more
Arizona Statewide and Local Democratic Nominees kicked off the campaign season for Legislative District (LD) 12, an area that includes parts of Ahwatukee, Tempe, Mesa, and Chandler. Among the Democratic nominees that appeared were: Secretary of State Adrian Fontes. Attorney General Kris Mayes. Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman. Treasurer Martin Quezada. Maricopa County Attorney … Read more
For Maricopa County Interim Attorney Rachel Mitchell and Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, it is perfectly reasonable to enforce Pre Statehood Arizona Abortion Laws from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on women and their physicians in 2022. At a press conference on Tuesday, Ms. Mitchell, clearly with an eye to the both the fringe … Read more