Is it my imagination or do the Republican legislators of our state veer pretty constantly between the perverse and the sloppy/stupid/hasty in the crafting of legislation? I offer HB2839, rushed from rough draft to passage in a single day, as Exhibit #1.
Not funny but one more excuse for anti-maskers who will believe anything that supports their "freedom means I don't gotta wear your blankety-blank mask" attitude.
I hope Tony V realizes that Senator Engel has worked for 5 years in a legislature in which Democrats can hardly get hearings for their bills, are not included in development of a budget, frequently have to consider making a bad bill a little less bad a moral victory. Substantial progress toward achieving those goals for which Engel worked so diligently requires Democratic majorities in both houses of the legislature. And that will only happen when more districts are truly competitive. We win the competitive districts, both legislative and congressional. And that's good reason to pay close attention to the work of the Independent Redistricting Commission and to let the Commission know the people demand competitive districts.
Good question. I think the answer is that it is three not four candidates who have raised nearly $1.2M. I make the total of the three candidates' reports as $1.169M.
Mr. Huppenthal has ---- not for the first time if memory serves me well --- engaged in meaningless comparisons. In this instance my native state is his choice of a whipping boy. I'd like him to know that in the 2020 census Connecticut had 3,605,944 residents while Arizona had 7,151,502. Common sense tells me that goes a long way to explain why AZ today has 1.2 million more jobs than CT. And if Mr. H had just looked and seen that CT has 5 seats in the House of Representatives to AZ's 11, he'd have recognized the population disparity. But none of that serves his purpose. Please leave my native state alone, Mr. Huppenthal.
I can't help thinking that Governor Ducey's actions and inaction alike are motivated by his aspirations for a new gig post-governorship. And since he states loud and clear that he is not running for the Senate, perhaps he dreams of life in DC apart from Congress and probably not running a Stone Cold franchise.
If he were open to advice from an Arizonan who has never voted for him, he'd support the fullest fastest completion of the state's vaccination program and he would show he believes elections in his state are fair and fraud-free and he'd veto every voter suppression bill his rabid Republican legislators send to him. But these would be rational Republican responses to these challenges.
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If he were open to advice from an Arizonan who has never voted for him, he'd support the fullest fastest completion of the state's vaccination program and he would show he believes elections in his state are fair and fraud-free and he'd veto every voter suppression bill his rabid Republican legislators send to him. But these would be rational Republican responses to these challenges.
Any bets?