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Rogers and Blackman Unfit for Office

The following letter was published in the Arizona Daily Sun this week. We agree. Arizona has gained a worldwide reputation for having the nuttiest state Legislature in the U.S. We in LD6 have two of the wackiest legislators of all: Sen. Wendy Rogers and Rep. Walt Blackman. They are cartoonish figures and would be laughable […]

FEDERAL ACTION ALERT – Oct. 16, 2021

Produced by Democrats of the Red Rocks and Coconino County Democratic Party THIS WEEK’S ALERTS: Push the compromise Freedom to Vote Act finally supported by Sen. Manchin, the Native American Voting Rights Act; ALL IN ON SINEMA: Aggressive Messaging for Sen. Sinema to stop sabotaging President Biden’s agenda; Pass the Equality Act. A. SUPPORT THE […]

Broad Support for Build Back Better Continues

The agenda President Biden ran and won on in 2020 continues to be broadly popular but only 35% of Americans are “hearing a lot about it,” including only 13% of Independents. That’s a problem. Coconino Democrats are going to do their part to overcome the communication gap by holding a Rally for Build Back Better […]

Bears Ear and Grand Staircase-Escalante Restored!

In proclamations signed Friday, President Biden reestablished the original boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. Elections do matter. “We are here today…bending the arc of the moral universe toward justice,” Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland said at Friday’s signing ceremony. Secretary Haaland thanked President Biden for his profound action to restore Bears Ears and “permanently protect the homelands of our ancestors,” […]

Federal Action Alert – Oct. 10, 2021

Produced by Democrats of the Red Rocks and Coconino County Democratic Party THIS WEEK’S ALERTS: The focus is on Senator Sinema, who has become central to progress on the Build Back Better/reconciliation bill and other popular proposals currently held in checkmate by the threat of Senate filibuster. Choose one of the following messages for a call, […]

Federal Action Alert – Oct 2, 2021

Produced by Democrats of the Red Rocks and Coconino County Democratic Party THIS WEEK’S ALERTS: Aggressive Message for Sen Sinema objecting to her working against President Biden’s agenda; Pull out the stops on the social and climate provisions in the Reconciliation Bill; Push the compromise Freedom to Vote Act finally supported by Sen. Manchin, […]

Strong Majorities Favor Passing the Build Back Better Agenda

By a 30-point margin, most Americans continue to support President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda. 61 percent of Americans, including nine in ten Democrats (89 percent), three in five Independents (60 percent), and nearly a third of Republicans (30 percent) support Biden and Democrats’ new economic plan that will “provide paid family and medical leave, establish a universal […]

Referenda Update

Tax and Education Education groups delivered two moving vans of petitions to the Secretary of State’s Office yesterday to force a public vote on Gov. Doug Ducey and Republican lawmakers’ $1 billion income tax cut plan. The so-called “flat tax” proposal (SB1829) was Ducey’s crowning achievement seven years after he first ran for governor on a pledge to cut […]

Arizona Democrats threaten no confidence vote against Sinema

The Arizona Democratic Party on Saturday passed a resolution threatening a no-confidence vote against Sen. Kyrsten Sinema if she does not support President Biden’s agenda and the elimination of the filibuster to accomplish that agenda. Eighty-one percent of the State Committee Members present voted in favor of the resolution, which passed with 415 votes in […]

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