And so the propaganda-fest continues...
Note: HHR refers to a hearing room in the House building; SHR refers to one in the Senate building.
Note2: Generally, I'll only specify bills that look to spread propaganda. Other bills may be more conventionally bad (think: corrupt or other misuses of public monies and/or authority). My recommendation is that if an agenda covers an area of interest to you, read the entire agenda.
Note3: Each chamber's respective Rules Committee meets on Monday, the House's in HHR4 at 1 p.m. and the Senate's in Senate Caucus Room 1, also at 1 p.m. Both committees serve as rubber stamps for bills leadership wants to be advanced and gatekeepers for measures that leadership wants stopped.
Note4: Meeting start times may be listed, but are flexible. Before journeying to the Capitol or viewing the meeting online, verify the start time.
Note5: Watch for strikers, or strike everything amendments. Those involve inserting language that replaces the entirety of a bill. Those can be introduced at any time and can make a previously harmless bill into a very bad one.
On Monday, 7/17 -
Nada.
On Tuesday, 7/18
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- Joint Legislative Ad Hoc Committee on Freedom of Expression at Arizona's Public Universities meets at 9 a.m. is SHR109.
I won't say that the fix is in with this "committee," but the list of speakers in a rogues' gallery of "woe is us" conservatives all proclaiming victimhood.
Ann Atkinson, who claims that she was fired by ASU for organizing Hatefest 2023 at ASU,
Owen Anderson, an ASU professor and pastor who really rules helping LGBT people and women..
Dennis Prager, a conservative radio talk show host and one of the featured speakers at ASU's Hatefest 2023
Seth Leibsohn, a conservative talk show host who really hates a changing society.
It's not just the speakers - some of the committee membership in part that crowd, too.
From the agenda -
Smith isn't exactly an unbiased arbiter here.
From the Arizona Daily Independent, dated 6/21/2023 (a *very* conservative outlet) -
Smith Calls On Regents To Investigate Suppression Of Conservative Voices
An Arizona State Representative is calling on the Arizona Board of Regents to investigate allegations that officials at Arizona State University have squashed free speech. Rep. Austin Smith’s concerns center around an Arizona State University administrator who claims she was fired for bringing conservative speakers to campus.
Oh, one of the committee co-chairs has a "colorful" past.
Also from the agenda -
From the AZ Mirror, dated 5/6/2021, written by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy -
Where was Anthony Kern on Jan. 6?
Newly reviewed footage by Arizona Mirror raises new questions about former Republican
lawmaker Anthony Kern’s activities around the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as the lawmaker
continues to participate in a recount of Maricopa County’s ballots from the 2020
general election.
Kern was a former state legislator when he participated in the events of January 6th.
He's something of a snowflake who sued a former Democratic legislator when she said that his activities in relation to those events.
He was slapped down for that.
I was going make a Joseph Goebbels reference in reference to this committee, but I felt that would be a violation of Godwin's Law, so I'm not going to so.
On Wednesday, 7/19 and Thursday, 7/20 -
Nada.
On Friday, 7/21 -
- Arizona Off Highway Vehicle Study Committee meets at 9 a.m. in SHR1.
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