There is a saying, “tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.” City Council Candidate Lori Matthews’ financial disclosure tells us who she is. Lori Matthews just broke fundraising records for City Council candidates thanks to two couples who don’t live here, each of whom donated the maximum allowed […]
Here is the contact information for our Legislators: AZ SENATE: LD 6 – Wendy Rogers 602-926-3042 LD 7 – Theresa Hatathlie 602-926-5160 President Karen Fann 602-926-5874 Majority Ldr Rick Gray 602-926-5413 AZ HOUSE: LD 6 – Walt Blackman 602-926-3043 LD 6 – Brenda Barton 602-926-3421 LD 7 – Jasmine […]
by Ann Heitland, Coconino County Democratic Party Chair Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema got their way. The filibuster lived. Voting rights legislation died. (Senator Sheldon Whitehouse thinks otherwise and it would be nice if Leader Schumer could pull off that plan. But don’t hold your breath. It’s not in our hands and we can’t effectively […]
January 14, 2022 PRODUCED BY THE COCONINO COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE While we continue to urge you to take action in support of the federal Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act before Tuesday, January 18, 2022, when the U.S. Senate is scheduled to take up this critical legislation, […]
Arizona Agenda reports that Sen. Wendy Rogers wants Arizona instead of Mexico to pay for the border wall —at least a few expensive miles of it. After failing last year to get the legislature to spend $300 million of state funds to build a border wall, she’s upping the ante this year with her SB 1032, which would spend a […]
by Ann Heitland As I observe the final deliberations of the Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC), I revisited the Communities of Interest Report on the IRC website. The “overlap count” puts any connection between Eastern Arizona towns (like Snowflake and Eagar) and Coconino County (Williams, Parks, Kachina Village, Bellemont) at the lowest of five ratings. There […]
The First General Session of Arizona’s 55th Legislature is OVER – for now – these same awful Legislators will get another chance in the Second General Session that begins in January 2022. Here’s a summary of what this Legislature actually did: Some GOOD: Allowing excused student absences for mental health reasons – SB 1097 – […]
Unfortunately, both the Arizona House and Senate have passed a budget that includes the 2.5% flat tax along with a number of other reprehensible provisions. There are some slight differences and the legislature will reconvene on Monday, June 28 at 11:00 AM to work on establishing a reconciled common budget package that can be sent […]
URGENT! URGENT! URGENT! Need people to call/text/fax/email Legislators to tell them to vote NO on the current budget package! They will be voting tomorrow (Thursday). Democrats walked out yesterday to block the budget bill that includes a massive tax cut, inadequate funding for education and other public services, and also several non-budget bills (anti education […]
Happy Father’s Day! Friends, the legislative session is still ongoing but there hasn’t been much activity due to a Special Session to deal with Wildland Fire issues. In this alert we won’t list the multiple bills that are DEAD, that is bills that have died in the legislative session. There is no agreement on the […]