On the day Floridian women saw their reproductive freedom severely curtailed with a six week ban on abortions going into effect, the Arizona State Senate, with uniamious Democratic support, repealed the Civil War era ban on reproductive freedom. Only Republicans Shawna Bolick and T.J. Shope supported the repeal. The repeal will go into effect 90 … Read more
The third time is the charm. As Michael Bryan and other media outlets across the country reported yesterday, the Arizona State House of Representatives finally, with all Democrats and three Republicans, voted to repeal the Civil War Era Abortion Ban by passing Representative Stephanie Stahl Hamiliton’s one sentence bill (HB2677.) Before the vote, the Representative, … Read more
It was a total spectacle at the Arizona State Legislature today. Democrats in both the House and Senate tried to push for a vote to repeal the 1864 Civil War Era ban on abortions but were rebuffed by rule-breaking Republicans in the upper chamber and sidelined with a recess by the MAGA crowd in the … Read more
There are very few places where the battle for control of the Presidency, the U.S. Congress, and for control of a state legislature overlap more tightly than in Tucson’s northern suburbs and exurbs. That makes the jurisdictions in and around the Southern Arizona region, such as Arizona’s 6th Congressional District (CD6), and the 16th and … Read more
As President Biden remarked to then-President Obama at the White House following the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA,) “this is a big f—king deal.” And it still is. For 14 years, the ACA, or Obamacare, or Romney Care before the one-time Republican Massachusetts Governor and current Utah Senator disowned his health care plan … Read more