There's absolutely nothing surprising or silly - SERIOUSLY - in reporting 5 hours ago about actions by our elected Arizona Law-Makers in the AZ State House. EJ Montini gets it right: "You elect these people, you pay them, you pay for their offices, their staffs, and you expect them to do work that is vital to the state. And instead they fiddle around with issues they do “not have jurisdiction to act upon” and that will have “no official standing or effect.” 
This is just one example of the disconnect between voters and long-time office-holders. It's time way overdue for more accountability. What are our state senators and AZ state house members doing to waste time when there are deadlines to be met dealing with important issues: some of those issues include education, prison reform, water rights, gun violence, voter protection . . . ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment anyone? [ guaranteeing the equal rights of women by the force-of-law ]
The latest legislative session has barely gotten started and already the time has come to waste time. And your money.
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Surprise! (Or not)
Lawmakers waste your money on worthless ‘wall’ bill
EJ Montini
Republican lawmakers this week pushed through the senate government committee Senate Concurrent Memorial 1101.
. . . This particular “memorial” urges the U.S. Congress to enact what is called the Fund and Complete the Border Wall Act, or something similar. It’s a waste.
Only the authority to waste money
The meaningless request took up time in an actual senate committee and it could continuing wasting time in another committee and then the Senate as a whole and then to the House. And in the end it will have absolutely no effect and mean absolutely nothing.The people you elected to office know all this.
And they do it anyway.
Did you get that?
SCM1001 was introduced by (Mesa) Republican David Farnsworth and was passed in committee 4-3, along party lines. The three Democrats voted against it. If passed by both the House and Senate (still controlled by Republicans) copies of the meaningless memorial will be sent to the president of the Senate, the Speaker of the House and members of Arizona’s congressional delegation, all of whom will promptly and permanently … ignore it.
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Mesa Republican Rusty Bowers
