Thursday, August 25, 2011
Kyl andthe Budget Deficit
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Earthquake Hits East Coast, GOP Blames Obama!
An earthquake hit the East Coast today, and Republicans immediately blamed President Obama.
"It's Obamaquake!" declared Boehner.
John McCain was quick to point out that had Obama brought to bear the full strength of our military, the quake could have been avoided.
Jon Kyl blamed the quake on liberals, the unemployed, undocumented immigrants, and everyone under the age of 25.
David Schweikert could not be found.
In Arizona, Jan Brewer railed against the federal government for allowing an earthquake to rattle Virginia and nearby states, saying "This is yet another example of that oppressive federal government interfering with states' rights."
Russell Pearce is said to be drafting legislation that will allow Arizona to deny that earthquakes exist.
(The preceding is fiction, but the resemblance to real life is unavoidable.)
Sunday, July 17, 2011
A Chandler Resident Campaigns for Greg Stanton
Contributed by Craig Falasco, Chandler
Thursday, May 26, 2011
LD20 Chair Responds to DiCiccio’s Union Bashing!
Councilman DiCiccio:
Unions provide the ONLY workplace recourse from bullies like you. Your silver-toothed outlook on life leaves very little compassion for the working class. Thankfully, unions exist today to protect the worker and working families. When we eliminate the world of workforce abuse, that’s when we can discuss eliminating unions. Until then, THANKS, AFL-CIO, for being there for us. Thanks, BIG TIME.
Proud union member,
CJ Briggle
Monday, May 23, 2011
Not a Single Vote in Support of Public Education by LD20 Legislators
Arizona Education Network published its 2011 Legislative Session: Education Funding Voting Record by Legislator. The report shows McComish, Dial, and Robson voted EVERY TIME to take budget dollars away from public education in Arizona. Read the full report including the methodology and links to legislative summaries. Contact McComish, Dial, and Robson, and let them know that they will be held accountable for their attacks on education in Arizona!
Friday, May 20, 2011
Be a part of history! Help recall Russell Pearce!
Monday, May 2, 2011
Schweikert’s statement on bin Laden fails to mention President Obama
Sunday, April 17, 2011
McComish, Dial, and Robson all voted to approve the Arizona “birther” bill!
Our LD 20 legislators, McComish, Dial, and Robson, chose to NOT listen to mainstream Arizonans, and instead followed their Republican extremists in the House and Senate by approving H.B. 2177, the Arizona “birther” bill! Instead of focusing on jobs, education, and other important and REAL issues, our legislators are wasting taxpayer money on conspiracy theory nonsense.
Follow these links to read the complete Senate vote and House vote, and a summary of H.B 2177. For a thorough review of the conspiracy theories that prompted this unfortunate Arizona bill, read this article.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Hate groups proliferate in USA
Excerpted from the Southern Poverty Law Center e-newsletter, author Morris Dees
On February 23 the Southern Poverty Law Center released their annual investigative report exposing the hate and extremist groups operating in the United States—and the news is not good. For the first time ever, hate groups number more than 1,000. Plus, armed, anti government militias surged for the second year in a row.
Frankly, given the political climate in our country, I'm not that surprised at this explosive growth of radical-right forces. Far-right politicians and media figures continue to pour fuel on the fire with outrageous conspiracy theories and demonizing propaganda about those who disagree with them, including our first African-American president.
What's more troubling is the recent spate of hate-inspired violence: a bomb planted along the MLK Day parade route in Spokane; a man arrested with explosives outside a mosque in Michigan; a neo-Nazi caught heading for the Mexican border with a dozen homemade grenades. And, of course, a mentally ill man who appears to have absorbed radical-right ideas killed six people and wounded 13 when he tried to assassinate U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Union-busing - main goal of KOCH BROTHERS
This post comes to us by way of ThinkProgressive.org. An interesting accounting of the money behind the politics in Wisconsin.
Americans for Prosperity Launches Ad -Supports Walker's Union Busting
Lee Fang, ThinkProgress: "As ThinkProgress has reported, the global conglomerate Koch Industries not only helped elect Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI), but is the leading force orchestrating his union-busting campaign. Koch gave Walker over $43,000 in direct donations and its allies aired millions of dollars worth of attack ads against his Democratic opponent. Then, Koch political operatives pressured Walker to crush labor unions as one of his first priorities."
Read the Article
Monday, March 7, 2011
Women's reproductive health care - aggressive attack in Arizona
The Arizona Capitol, this week, has seen one of the most anti-women agenda's in history. The bills below are very likely to reach the Governor's desk in the next week:
- Rural women will lose access to abortion entirely, as early abortion-by-pill is the only form of abortion available outside Phoenix and Tucson.
- The bill expands required components of informed consent to include mandatory ultrasound and "auscultation" (listening to fetal organs including the heart) no sooner than one hour before the procedure.
- Requires that both the patient and the abortion provider sign an affidavit stating that the abortion is not to select for race or gender and prohibits abortion if used for race or gender selection, either based on the race of the fetus or the race of the parent.
- Will prohibit ANY organization that receives state funding or contracts with the state from providing, funding, referring for or offering insurance coverage, for abortion.
- Hospitals that accept Medicaid won't be able to provide abortion to critically ill women.
- Women's shelters that receive state grants won't be able to make abortion referrals to women in abusive and violent relationships.
- Requires doctors that provide any type of abortion, including abortion by pill; to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the abortion clinic.
- A physician is guilty of a class 3 misdemeanor if the physician performs an abortion without hospital privileges.
Call your legislator to voice your concerns regarding this legislation. Do your part, stay informed about bills in the Arizona Senate and House.
Friday, March 4, 2011
We Stand In Solidarity
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Senator Gallardo Blasts Deceptive SCR 1025
Phoenix, Ariz—Sen. Steve Gallardo responded to the effort by Senators Steve Pierce and Scott Bundgaard to pass SCR 1025, a deceptive ballot referendum that could result in voters unwittingly repealing Clean Elections. The measure does not mention Clean Elections.
“SCR 1025 is completely dishonest,” said Sen. Steve Gallardo. “Backers of this measure are afraid to debate Clean Elections on its merits because they know voters overwhelmingly support the popular program. Instead they are hoping to deceive voters into killing the Clean Elections by defunding it and that’s shameful.”
“If they want to repeal Clean Elections, why not be honest about it? Voters have made it clear they are sick and tired of sneaky and deceptive ballot measures. These
legislators keep proving they are out-of-touch with voters.”
SCR 1025 would effectively end Clean Elections in Arizona by constitutionally barring the use of “public funds” for candidate campaigns. In order to achieve this, the amendment slated for the 2012 ballot redefines “public funds” to include the ten percent surcharge on lawbreakers that comprises the Citizens Clean Elections Fund. When voters passed Clean Elections they provided a funding mechanism separate from the general fund. The Clean Elections Fund regularly contributes excess money to the general fund, so passage would result in more cuts to the general fund.
Linda Brown
Executive Director
Arizona Advocacy Network
602-297-2500 (office)
602-297-3600 (fax)
1616 E Indian School Road, Suite 340
Phoenix, AZ 85016
www.azadvocacy.org
Saturday, January 8, 2011
A Return to Civility?
"Such a senseless act of terrible violence has no place in a free society."
-- President Barrack Obama