As usual, all info gathered from the websites of the relevant political bodies/agencies, and subject to change without notice...
In terms of *official* activity, this is going to be one of the quietest weeks of the year so far.
...At the federal level, both the U.S. House and Senate are in recess. Expect most of the news in regard to congresscritters to be reports of teabaggers disrupting public appearances of elected officials, or, as in the cases of AZ's Harry Mitchell (closed office) and Gabrielle Giffords (public showing of a movie by another organization), teabaggers showing up where they know that the public officials *won't* be and complaining that the officials are "ducking" them. Note: I won't provide free publicity via direct links; this is a recurring theme in the Republican blogosphere. It won't take much digging to find the posts.
...The heaviest action could be at the Arizona Legislature. The speculation is that the lege, specifically the Senate, will conduct budget business on Monday. This week, they're trying a new tactic - splitting the tax package into two bills.
One bill will have the referral of a temporary increase to the state's sales tax in it; the other will have the huge cuts in taxes targetted to benefit corporations and the wealthy.
The Republican leadership in the Senate hopes that the scheme will persuade those who have voted against the referral to vote for the cuts, and that those who have voted against the cuts will vote for the referral.
On Friday, the Senate referred two bills, HB2007 and HB2015, to the Appropriations Committee. No Approps agenda has been posted as yet, but look for action on those bills and more on Monday.
...The Arizona Corporation Commission is holding a securities meeting on Thursday at 10 a.m. The agenda is a short one, though significant to those folks who are involved.
...That looks to be it for planned public meetings.
Not scheduled to meet this week: Arizona Board of Regents, Citizens Clean Elections Commission, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, Governing Board of the Maricopa County Community College District, Boards of Directors of the Maricopa Integrated Health System and the Central Arizona Project, and the City Councils of Tempe and Scottsdale.
While none of the aforementioned is scheduled to meet this week, emergency executive sessions are always possible, especially with the Scottsdale City Council and the County Board of Supervisors.
3 comments:
All I can say is, keep on disparaging Tea Party supporters - that is so (not) classy.
Thane Eichenauer, fan of the Burgundy Channel
Thane, I will disparage anyone, left or right, who deliberately disrupts public discourse by shouting down those who disagree with them, who threaten to lynch or otherwise use violence against those who disagree with them, or threaten to assassinate elected officials who don't vote their way.
Right now, the teabaggers are worse than PETA or the idiots who spike trees in order to injure loggers - while those groups commit some crazy, even despicable, acts, their motives are their own, however misguided.
Not those of corporate lobbyists and operatives who are funnelling money to astroturf groups.
If you think that the teabaggers deserve respect, that's fine.
However, they aren't getting any respect from me until they earn it.
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