Category Archives: Latest News
Budgeting 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 […]
Continue readingCoconino Democrats hold full kickoff event for 2018 election
Here’s the Arizona Daily Sun’s coverage of our highly successfully 2018 Kickoff Event. And, here are the photos we took. Flagstaff residents got a chance Saturday to check out and speak to a number of Democratic Party candidates and organizations at the Coconino County Democratic Party’s Community Action Kickoff at Coconino High School. The event had a high […]
Continue readingCharter schools bilk you, dump kids and … Republican lawmakers don’t care
Even though they get your tax dollars, Charter Schools don’t have to share financial information or be monitored by the state like regular public schools. They don’t have to disclose how much they pay their administrators, or anyone else. There is no competitive bid process; nepotism runs rampant. Democrats have introduced a series of bills that would, in essence, […]
Continue readingSecretary Tillerson Admits Russia Already Interfering in 2018 Midterms
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Tuesday that Russia is already trying to influence the U.S. midterm election. This echoes the recent warning from CIA Director Pompeo. Yet, last month Trump refused to impose the sanctions mandated by Congress last September to discourage such attacks. Yesterday, Democratic Representative Maxine Waters grilled Treasury Secretary on why Trump has […]
Continue readingNancy Pelosi’s filibuster-style speech tops eight hours in bid to force immigration votes
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi took the rare step Wednesday of giving a marathon speech supporting Democrats’ attempts to legalize the status of young immigrant “dreamers,” in a bid to pressure Republicans to act. Her more than eight-hour speech ranked as the longest given by a member of the House of Representatives in at least […]
Continue readingWild & Crazy Things in the Legislature
It’s always nuts when the legislature is in session, especially with Sylvia Allen and Bob Thorpe and now term-limited Brenda Barton– unfortunately our legislators in LD 6 — on the loose. Thanks to our friends at Unitarian Universalist and Together We Will for following events closely. Now is the time to take action to support […]
Continue readingWhat We Did in January: Lots!
We reported in our mid-month Newsletter how our precinct committee people hit the ground running at the first monthly PC meeting of the year. Since then, we’ve gotten reports on many meetings and canvassing events within the precincts. PCs attended Governor Ducey’s budget PR event at the Flagstaff Chamber. Regional Captain Aubrey Sonderegger was one of the […]
Continue readingNew State Party Chair
The state quarterly meeting was held January 27 in Casa Grande. Due to the resignation of the party chair elected in January (she moved and became ineligible to serve), the main item of business was the election of a new chair. Felecia Rotellini defeated Scott Prior 359-25 and 7 blank ballots were submitted. Felecia was the […]
Continue readingSylvia Allen Strikes Again
LD-6 State Senator Sylvia Allen wants to give Arizona voters a chance to decide if the current $10.50 an hour minimum wage is as high as it should ever go. This, in spite of the fact that voters just last year approved a statewide referendum to raise the minimum to $12 by 2020 and Flagstaff voters, […]
Continue reading