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GOP Commissioners Prioritize Partisanship over Independence
As the Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC) deliberates the next ten years of political representation in Arizona, this week’s meetings have shown that the Republican commissioners are prioritizing the input of land developer association Southern Arizona Leadership Council (SALC) over the voices of citizens of the Navajo Nation and Latinos in Southern Arizona. Republican Commissioner David […]
Continue readingRogers 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 […]
Continue readingFEDERAL 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 […]
Continue readingBroad 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 […]
Continue readingBears 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,” […]
Continue readingFederal 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, […]
Continue readingJobs Report
Employers added 194,000 jobs last month. The unemployment rate fell to 4.8 percent, from 5.2 percent in August. It fell for good reasons, not bad — the number of people unemployed dropped by a whopping 710,000 while the number of people working rose by a robust 526,000. This represents a remarkably speedy recovery in the labor […]
Continue readingFederal 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, […]
Continue readingStrong 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 […]
Continue readingReferenda 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 […]
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