Representative Pamela Powers Hannley (D, LD-9) was named “The Most Valuable State Legislator” on The Nation’s 2018 Progressive Honor Roll. She’s not one of the most valuable. She’s the only state legislator on the 2018 list.
[Full disclosure: I’ve known Pam for years. We both wrote on Blog for Arizona until I moved to The Range. She’s also one of my state representatives.]
About a dozen people were selected for this year’s honor roll, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar. It’s quite an honor for Powers Hannley to be in the company of such a high profile collection ranging from newcomers to old timers. It’s also an indication that Arizona is on the radar as a state with a significant number of progressive office holders.
According to the blurb on the Honor Roll, Powers Hannley has spent “years as a blogger and activist.” She ran for office because “she wanted to help fight for women’s rights, criminal-justice reform, strong unions, public banking, and her vision for democratic renewal.”
The Nation is a highly respected weekly progressive magazine. It was founded in 1865, making it the oldest continuously running weekly in the country.
This article appears in Jan 3-9, 2019.
Wendy Brown’s article on last night’s wall debate is a real laugher. It is nearly impossible to comprehend the progressive level of hatred and obstructionism in their minds and hearts, even though they claim to know Trump’s every thought. Have drugs brought on this delusion?
“a significant number of progressive office holders?” Powers-Hannley is the real thing, but for this statement to be true we’d have to agree that our lunatic right wing officeholders have moved the so-called “center ” so far to the right that the mildest of liberals qualifies as a flame throwing leftist progressive. I wish this phrase were the truth but…..some other state. Our very very heralded new Democratic Senator, Ms. Sinema, just voted for a border wall and (after swearing in on the Constitution) to abridge our first amendment rights by not allowing a word of protest about Israel’s behavior against its neighbors (coming to a border NEAR YOU!). And this is the person that the state Dems trumpet as being a huge WIN for the party!!! I think we still need work on that “significant number of progressive office holders”.