Often when the House Democrats go into caucus, we were greeted with a HUGE list of bills to consider that morning. Such was the case a few weeks ago when the caucus agenda was several pages long, including two pages of proposals attacking your rights. Since the staff didn’t receive the caucus agenda until about … Read more
Republicans have spent weeks and employed multiple levels of parliamentary procedures to ram Senator Cathi Herrod’s … er … Senator Nancy Barto’s fetal personhood bill through both houses … twice. SB1457 died in the Senate earlier in April, but the Republicans brought the zombie bill back to life for a do-over. SB1457 inserts BIG government … Read more
April 23 UPDATE: As only she can do, Senator Kelly Townsend put a fly in the Republican Party’s ointment on Thursday when she unexpectedly voted NO on HB1485, killed the PEVL Purge bill (at lease temporarily), and left the building. [Below is my original blog post about the House vote.] April 20 was high drama in the Arizona … Read more
At his first press conference today, President Biden said that attempts to enact bills to suppress the vote are “UnAmerican,” “sick,” and “despicable.” The President may well have been referring to the Orwellian and Anti-Democratic behavior of Republican Committee Chairs in the Arizona State Legislature who have taken steps over the last couple of weeks … Read more
Democratic Legislators pushed back against Governor Doug Ducey’s lackluster performance in the battle against COVID19 at a press conference on Dec. 8, 2020. Ducey has left millions of dollars in federal funds unspent, as tens of thousands of Arizonans are scheduled to be evicted on January 1, 2021 if government does not act. On social … Read more