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
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:
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 ...
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 -
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 ...
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PHOENIX — HB 2476, legislation that aimed to eliminate current state laws regarding water forfeiture, was withdrawn by House Speaker Rusty Bowers last ...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.
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.
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 ...
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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