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Pelosi Visits Arizona – Delivers Message on Taxes and Deficit
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi visited Arizona this week to deliver this message: The GOP plan couldn’t be clearer: Explode the deficit by passing a Tax Scam that puts the wealthiest first Pretend to panic about the massive deficit fueled by the Tax Scam Use deficit caused by tax scam to take from Medicare, Medicaid, […]
Continue readingEleanor Roosevelt Nominees Announced
The Eleanor Roosevelt Award is presented annually to members of our community whose work and service to the people of Coconino County embody the ideals of Eleanor Roosevelt. On February 10, the Executive Committee approved the nominations received for 2018. The award winner will be announced at the Roosevelt/Kennedy Dinner on March 10. In her […]
Continue readingA Gentle Reminder to the Middle Class About the Cost of Health Insurance
We’re reading that some hard-working people are building up resentment because their health insurance premiums have sky-rocketed this year while those who qualify for Medicaid or ACA subsidies don’t have to pay these increased premiums. Here’s our message: You should be mad about this; but please direct your anger toward the cause rather than toward […]
Continue readingRoosevelt-Kennedy Dinner: We Need You There!
It’s going to be fun. The theme of the evening is “Ready to Win.” The money raised will fuel our ground game through the Midterm Election — we need your help! Buy Tickets! The Roosevelt-Kennedy Dinner is the largest fund-raising effort of the year for the Coconino County Democratic Party. Proceeds from ticket sales and the […]
Continue readingWe Can Beat Ducey — Even Republicans Think So
From today’s Daily Kos: • AZ-Gov: The Republican Governors Association has made its first television ad reservations of the cycle, booking $20 million in four states. (The DGA has yet to make any.) Three of them are in exactly the sort of states you’d expect: Florida ($9.4 million), Nevada ($3.3 million), and Ohio ($4.3 million), each home […]
Continue readingRepublicans’ Half-Baked Food Box Proposal Would Hurt the Poor, our State Budget, and Local Economies
Republicans backing Trump’s new food stamps plan have failed to do their research. (SNAP — the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — is the official name for the food stamp programs.) The plan cuts more than $200 billion from the program over the next decade by replacing debit-like cards that can be used at approved stores […]
Continue readingOur Independent Redistricting Commission Under Attack
Thanks to Arizona voters, we are among the minority of states who have wrested control of redistricting from the legislature. The Republicans, of course, hate that. Here’s some a report on their latest attack on the voters’ 2000 amendment to the Arizona Constitution: Excerpt from The Daily Kos Elections Voting Rights Roundup of 2/17/2018, written by […]
Continue readingShooting at Florida School
There are no words to describe what happened in Parkland, Florida yesterday except these: “Thoughts and Prayers” are not enough.
Continue readingBudgeting Gone Wild: Midterm Elections Matter
This is how the federal government’s budgeting and spending is supposed to work Federal Budget Process, National Priorities Project: In November, December, and early January, the Executive Branch creates a proposed budget for the next fiscal year, which begins October 1 of each year. The President presents that budget to Congress sometime in January or early […]
Continue readingUpdate on Sylvia Allen’s View of Morality
State Senator Sylvia Allen (R) says its “immoral” to give workers 3 paid days of sick leave and a minimum wage, but it’s A-Okay to take money from public schools for private charters like the one she runs. Yesterday, a Republican-controlled Senate panel agreed with her and advanced a proposal to reverse the 2016 voter-approved […]
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