Republicans are attacking your rights at multiple levels — voting rights, reproductive rights, the right to protest, the right to sue a business, the right to citizens initiative, and the right to unionize. On Tuesday, the first bill up for debate was SB1268, the anti-union ALEC bill. In committee, we were led to believe that … Read more
For many years, the Arizona Legislature has had a 100 day target for the length of each session. April 20, 2021 was day 100 for this session. When more than 1000 bills are proposed every year and more than 300 are usually signed into law in non-pandemic years, the Legislature doesn’t generally finish in 100 … Read more
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
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
The anti-democratic, anti-majoritarian tendencies of authoritarian Republicans is growing worse. A Pew Research Center poll released on Thursday, which finds that Republicans increasingly oppose measures that would expand access to the ballot. The Drop in Republican Support for Voting Rights: The percentage of Republicans and independents leaning toward the G.O.P. who said that voters should be … Read more