Tag Archives: Elections Have Consequences
Why This Week Was A Win
The bill Trump signed Friday (no doubt without reading) would have been quite different had the Democrats not won the House in November. Elections do matter. Without the need to compromise with Democrats to pass a funding bill, the Republicans in the Senate would never have defied Trump as much as this new law does. […]
Continue readingNever More Important
If there was ever any question whether the November elections would be the most important of our lifetime, Justice Kennedy’s retirement from the Supreme Court should remove all doubt. In 2017, Mitch McConnell held up President Obama’s nomination of moderate, yet brilliant, Jurist Merrick Garland for over 8 months on the ground that the American […]
Continue readingLD-6 Is Key to Changing Arizona
As we’re focusing on how to change our legislature, it seems timely to revisit some facts about LD-6. Our district is one of the eight most competitive in the state. If we can flip all three seats from Republican to Democratic in LD-6, it will make a huge difference for the entire state. All of […]
Continue readingCoconino Voices: Gov. Ducey already knows how to subtract
Local teacher and progressive, Derek Born, has this almost right. What he says about Ducey’s fake support for education is spot on. But, it’s not enough to just subtract our votes from Ducey’s column. We have to add votes for the Democrat who opposes him — or Ducey will win again. It’s critical that people […]
Continue readingCensus Citizenship Question
Trump’s Commerce Department is reinstating a citizenship question to the 2020 Census for the first time in 70 years. This is a craven attack on our democracy and a transparent attempt to intimidate immigrant communities and reduce representation in blue states. The census is a constitutionally-mandated count of all U.S. residents, not a political tool […]
Continue readingAZ Ed Funding “a Burning, Heaping Mess”
Arizona funding for education is “a burning, heaping mess.” And, that’s the description applied by a Republican. State Treasurer (soon to be Trump’s head of NASA) Steve DeWit “compared the status of Prop. 123 to telling a person who was hand-building an airplane that the plane will crash, and then watching that person crash the plane […]
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 readingAction Is the Antidote to Despair: March to the Polls!
One of our precinct committee persons was asked to speak at the Flagstaff Women’s March 2.0 this past Saturday. Standing in the falling snow, before 1000-1200 supporters, these are the words of Aubrey Sonderegger: Hello 2018! I’m glad you’re finally here because, I don’t know about all of you, but I’m ready for the chance […]
Continue readingMartin Luther King, Jr.
While jailed for engaging in peaceful protest, King wrote what has become one of his greatest essays, “Letter from the Birmingham Jail.” Here is a small excerpt, followed by some questions for today: .. over the past few years, I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion […]
Continue readingRep. Tom O’Halleran on Twitter: “I am proud to support legislation that expands medicare coverage for glasses, hearing aids, and dental care. https://t.co/ml2akp1dBn”
It’s about time. You won’t see this from a Republican.
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