Each election year the Capitol Times hosts a Meet the Candidates event in July for all Legislative candidates and incumbents at a fancy downtown Phoenix hotel. This year, the Cap Times event — sponsored by the Citizens Clean Elections Commission — is virtual and spread out over five evenings, from 6-8 p.m. each night. The … Read more
Apparently, Jay Lawrence is not the only Republican Legislator that likes the fringe conspiracy enthusiast group OAnon. Vince Leach does as well. AZ Mirror Journalist Jeremy Duda first reported that the Legislative District 11 State Senator posted a Ben Garrison editorial cartoon of Donald Trump, Michael Flynn, and QAnon imitating the three men from Willards … Read more
July 2, 2020, was a great day for Public Education in Arizona. Activists, after a little less than five months, were able to gather a little more than 435,000 voter signatures to get the Invest in Ed 2.0 initiative on the November 3, 2020 ballot. That was about 200,000 more qualifying signatures than were needed … Read more
The local and state activist group, Emerging American Majorities (EAM) has released a digital ad, calling for Republicans in the Arizona State Legislature to stop playing with Arizonan lives and do more to protect people with preexisting conditions (especially during the Coronavirus) than the potentially patient price gauging Mesnard measure that passed the Legislature in … Read more
Tom Stiglich, a syndicated cartoonist, published this editorial cartoon in Newspapers across the Southeast and Midwest on June 10, 2020. As readers can see, this cartoon is filled with fear stoking and racist dog whistles. The African American male mugger robbing a defenseless white woman. The cries for help are rebuffed by the mugger saying … Read more