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AZ Voucher Program Ridden By Waste and Abuse
A new Arizona Republic investigation reveals the scandal regarding Ducey’s school voucher program. Separately, we know that our State Senator Sylvia Allen supports and profits from this Ducey/DeVos/Goldwater Institute scheme. She must go in 2018. Here’s some of what the AZ Republic report says: About 4,147 students are currently enrolled in the Ducey/De Vos Voucher […]
Continue readingCall for a Clean Dream Act
While we remain under threat from the tax bill, the FCC’s net neutrality proposal, incursions on our public lands, and so much more, this week Congress’ attention shifts to the government spending bill. The government will shut down this Friday, December 8 unless a “continuing resolution” is passed. Such a resolution allows Congress to extend the current government funding […]
Continue readingTax Scam Fight Continues
Yesterday, resistance groups across the country opened the day thinking we had a fight to get the Tax Bill into conference (to avoid having the House simply pass the Senate bill and send it to Trump for signature). It turns out that the Senate passed their bill in such haste that they made a mistake […]
Continue readingTax Scam Fight Is Not Over | Take Action
The fight is not over. The Senate bill is different from what passed the House and those differences must be reconciled. Some of what’s different is better in the later bill1 — thanks to pressure from people like you! So, let’s keep it up. The tax bill goes back to the House today, and the House […]
Continue readingTake Action | Trump Is Vandalizing Our Wild Heritage
Former Governor and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt implores us to take action to save our precious public lands. Trump is traveling to Utah on Monday, where he will be greeted by protestors in Salt Lake City. Trump will not even visit the monuments he intends to scale back: Bears Ear and Grand Staircase Escalante. He’s […]
Continue readingKing Trump Takes Step to Deconstruct the Consumer Protection Bureau
President Trump named his budget director as the agency’s acting leader, moving to take control just hours after its departing leader had taken steps to install his own choice for acting chief. The statute creating the C.F.P.B. says that the agency’s deputy director serves as acting director until a new director has been nominated by […]
Continue readingTaxpayers pay legal bill to protect Trump business profits
As President Trump faces Constitutional challenges over his private businesses, taxpayers get the bill for government lawyers to protect his profits. Source: Taxpayers pay legal bill to protect Trump business profits
Continue readingEconomy Not Working For Arizonans
Arizona’s year-over-year employment rate went up slightly but is far below projections made by the state’s Office of Economic Opportunity a year ago. Governor Doug Ducey continued to cling to the notion that it’s a nice place to live in his remarks following the release of the new economic figures. While the economy continues to […]
Continue readingTwo Institutions — and You — Are Saving America
The President is unfit for office and Congress is failing to use its oversight abilities to check him. We are living in a worst-case scenario. What happens when two branches of our government are missing in action? Democratic Representative Adam Schiff, from California’s 28th Congressional District, said on October 14 at Stanford University that we […]
Continue readingTake Action: Stop the Tax Bill
(This article has been updated with additional information and references.) Republicans plan to ram a tax bill through Congress before Thanksgiving. We need to give this as much protest as we gave to their efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Call, write, and fax every day between now and Thanksgiving. Never before has a […]
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