02 March 2019

National News Spotlight On Whacky Arizona Politicians

What feeds this frenzy of not-so-friendly 'fire' of mainstream media attention directed at mostly conservative Republican law-makers elected here in The Arizona State House?
Everything from claims of religious-freedom-exemptions to measles vaccines that call proponents "Communists" to lower-wages for young workers as part of 'Arizona's favorable business environment' for less regulations - and gun control.
O yeah, must be something in the water? No, Arizona lawmakers failed to meet a deadline on that 19-year old Drought Contingency Plan, whereas other more important issues [like the Equal Rights Amendment ratification] get dead-ended or placed on-hold.
Who 'takes the cake' on the mandatory measles vaccinations?
Mesa (R) Kelly Townsend
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NBCNews.com-19 hours ago
Arizona lawmaker calls mandatory measles vaccine 'communist' amid .... for purposes of political expediency and political gain," Hotez said.
 
 
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Kelly Townsend has a way with words for sure:
 
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KTAR.com-16 hours ago
PHOENIX – One day after Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey declared a pro-vaccination agenda, a state lawmaker called mandatory vaccines a ...
 
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13abc Action News-Feb 26, 2019
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona lawmakers are looking at expanding exemptions from children's vaccine requirements as public health officials in the ...
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Not just this year -
 
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Phoenix New Times-Dec 27, 2018
Last year, the geniuses of Arizona's political world suggested we ban masks at protests, criminalize panhandling, and bar college students from voting. That's to ...
 
 
 
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Phoenix New Times-Jan 7, 2019
The Arizona Legislature, a notorious cauldron of bad ideas, will reconvene on Monday, January 14. What fresh hell awaits? Next week marks the beginning of ...
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Here's Rusty Bowers
“There is a huge amount of frustration that our bills are not getting heard,” said state Rep. Kirsten Engel (D-LD10). “Republicans are not having their bills heard either. We have a speaker of the house who has the control, but he is a bottleneck. We’re going to have a session where we won’t have a lot of action on house priorities.”
She was referring to doddering Rep. Rusty Bowers (R-LD25) who has failed to give most of the 1,800 bills a first reading, and has been causing delays by assigning bills to be reviewed by two committees.
Blog for Arizona
Old man Rusty Bowers is a bottleneck in the Legislature
 
 
Eastern Arizona Courier-Feb 27, 2019
PHOENIX — HB 2476, legislation that aimed to eliminate current state laws regarding water forfeiture, was withdrawn by House Speaker Rusty Bowers last ...
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Here's Representative Travis Grantham, who introduced a bill and lazily tried to connect youth unemployment with the need for shitty wages.
Unfortunately for workers, the Arizona House is currently in the hands of the GOP by a slim 31-29 margin, so the bill passed the committee by a margin of 30-29.
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Splinter-Feb 28, 2019
The Arizona GOP doesn't want you to be exploited too much by your ... Watching politicians fail to own each other and staring at a list of numbers is great and all, ...
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Here's Michelle Udall
Udall is under the impression that pornography poses a problem on a scale rivalling that of Big Tobacco.
"Like the tobacco industry, the pornography industry has created a public health crisis," Udall claimed before lawmakers in support of House Concurrent Resolution 2009.
Sadly, when it comes to sex education, Arizona currently ranks third worst in the nation.
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ScienceAlert-Feb 23, 2019
If state house representative Michelle Udall gets her way, pornography could soon be considered a public health crisis in Arizona. Passing her proposed bill ...
 
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Phoenix New Times-Feb 20, 2019
A specter is haunting Arizona schools – the specter of socialism. That's according to Representative Kelly Townsend, a Republican legislator from Mesa, now ... 
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New York Magazine-Jan 2, 2019
Less than a year after a statewide teacher walkout, Arizona legislators have filed two bills aimed at limiting the workplace speech rights of public educators
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