Random Musings

There's been an addition to this week's schedule of committee meetings at the state legislature. Senate Director Nominations  meets ...

Well. the Arizona lege will be back in session...so it will be necessary to hide the children and small animals. And to protect democracy fr...

...but while they may have ruffled certain sensibilities, my statements are still true. A couple of days ago, I wrote a post criticizing th...

He sure seems to put them into any bill that he proposes that might otherwise be considered decent. For example, he's proposed SCR1005 ,...

I could have named this one the "Snowflake Edition", but individual snowflakes are unique, and there's a certain similarity he...

 Well, the election is over, so activity at the Capitol is picking up. Admittedly, there's only three meetings scheduled at this point, ...

In lege-speak, a "vehicle bill" that exists basically to serve a shell for a strike-everything amendment ("striker") tha...

Ol' (bile-filled) Reliable, maybe. Our John really dislikes trans people. So when it came time to introduce legislation for the upcoming...

That legislative district (LD3), like all LDs, elects three people to the state legislature, one state senator and two state representatives...

...to pass something that will just make things worse instead or fixing things. At the state legislature, the Senate's Elections Committ...

Let the political games of musical chairs and idle speculation begin. From AZFamily - Penzone won’t seek 3rd term as Maricopa County Sherif...

...Apparently, the U.S. Senate thinks it's better to look good than to be good. From NPR - The Senate's dress code just got more re...

[start sarcasm} I just LOVE dirty tricks. [/end sarcasm] On Sunday, I wrote a post about  State Sen. John Kavanagh and the Coalition Of Gre...

 If not, John Kavanagh has something to worry about.   In 2022, he faced a primary challenge from the right, where there isn't much room...

From Lowe's Home Improvement , mostly because I don't want Kavanagh's preferred hate symbol to be the first image in this post. ...

On tap at the legislature: More helping corporations, more ignoring the will of the voters, and more efforts to undermine democracy...and tr...

They've already indicated that everything will be under attack; their culture war stuff will get most of the attention, but some of the ...

 This is completely tongue-in-cheek (except for the parts that come true).  And mostly lege-oriented. :) January - Governor Katie Hobbs take...