Author Archive: Web Steward
Don’t Delete Facebook!
Please do not close your Facebook accounts because Facebook, according to news reports, is complicit in the information warfare conducted during the 2016 election. And, PLEASE SHARE this post. Why? (1) Facebook is a major utility in use by the good guys, including us, to get important messages out not only to you but to […]
Continue readingRepublicans Are About To Waste Taxpayer Money on Unconstitutional Abortion Bills — Again
We wish we could find reliable numbers for how much the Arizona Attorney General’s office has spent on legal fees trying to defend the ridiculously obviously unconstitutional abortion bills that the Arizona legislature has passed in the last decade and which Governors Brewer and Ducey signed (sometimes — occasionally, they vetoed because the bills were […]
Continue readingAnother Test for Sylvia Allen
A bill making its way through the Arizona legislature threatens to disrupt college and university campuses. HB2563 supposedly protects free speech on college campuses, but actually, it’s something else entirely. The legislation is written by the Goldwater Institute and is being introduced in statehouses around the US (with Koch money more than likely). If it becomes […]
Continue readingToo much pulp, not enough substance
Democrats [do] stand together for their own policies of fair taxes across all income groups to pay for a national government that provides an equitable justice system, conservation of national resources, respect for all peoples, and excellent education in every neighborhood. Why don’t the papers report that? Read more from Harriet Young’s Letter to the […]
Continue reading18th Annual RK Dinner a Huge Success!
Our 18th Roosevelt-Kennedy fundraising dinner sold out! Nearly 300 people attended, including statewide and local candidates. We sold all of our wonderful auction items using an amazing new text-messaging auction format. We are thankful for the generosity of all who bought tickets and attended, for our auction donors, for the NAU Young Democrats who helped […]
Continue reading“Outlaw Dirty Money” Needs Help with Petitions!
Arizona deserves transparency in politics– and former Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard is leading an effort to achieve that. The work is called Outlaw Dirty Money. The movement seeks a an amendment to the Arizona Constitution that gets rid of anonymity in large campaign donations. Outlaw Dirty Money needs 300,000 signatures to get the “Stop Political Dirty […]
Continue readingLori Polini-Staudinger Wins 2018 Eleanor Roosevelt Award
We’re not saying that Professor Lori Polini-Staudinger isn’t “well-behaved” but she surely has stirred things up in Flagstaff since the 2016 election. For that, the Coconino County Democratic Party awarded her its 2018 Eleanor Roosevelt recognition. Each year, the Coconino County Democratic Party searches for a community member who lives up to Eleanor Roosevelt’s famous statement, […]
Continue readingDemocrats Propose Funding for Infrastructure with a Better Tax Plan
#Ever since Republican’s crammed their tax bill down Americans’ throats at the end of 2017, they have been looking for ways to pay for the $1.5-$2.1 trillion dollar deficit that their new law is projected to create. House Speaker Paul Ryan has his eye on cutting Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid. Trump plans to gut […]
Continue readingTariffs, Trade Pacts, and Trade Wars
This week Trump announced huge new tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum. He lost his chief economic advisor, Gary Cohn, as a result. More than 100 Republicans in Congress have asked him to reconsider. And, the Republican head of the Senate Senate’s Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee announced a review that includes asking […]
Continue readingRepublicans Throw Transportation Safety Out the Window
Rules that transportation safety experts have spent years designing are being tossed out in the Republican Administration’s wholesale deconstruction of our federal government. A dozen transportation safety rules under development or already adopted have been repealed, withdrawn, delayed, or put on the back burner since Republicans took over the Executive Branch last year. There have […]
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