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Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:27:35 -0700
Filling vacancies at the Legislature became almost routine this year as lawmakers bolted to run for Congress. But the latest vacancy is a reluctant one, created by Rep. Doug Quelland's violations of campaign-finance laws. Quelland continues to dispute those offenses, both in court and to anyone who asks him about it. No matter. Following the laws that govern Arizona's public-campaign-finance system, elections officials declared his District 10 seat vacant. On Monday night, the precinct committeemen in the northwest Valley district chose three Republicans as a potential replacements for Quelland. They are Kimberly Yee, who is running for the House seat this fall; Harry GrosJean and Francine ...read the rest of this post
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Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:41:44 -0700
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has dismissed the state Democratic Party's challenge to John Huppenthal's nominating petitions for state schools chief. Another judge also disqualified Sen. Ken Cheuvront from running for a justice of the peace post in central Phoenix. Judge Robert Oberbillig's reasoning in the Huppenthal case was not immediately available. But the Democrats had charged that the Chandler lawmaker should be barred from running for school superintendent because he had gathered his nominating-petition signatures while still exploring a run for the office. Earlier, Oberbilling rejected another Democratic Party challenge to Bob Thomas, who is seeking the Republican nomination for ...read the rest of this post
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Tuesday, May 25, 10 at 07:00 AM
PRESS RELEASE -- District 29 Democratic lawmakers to hold town hall in Tucson
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Mon, 17 May 2010 14:17:46 -0700
At a rally to urge support for her long-sought sales-tax increase, Gov. Jan Brewer again said she won't call the Legislature back into special session to consider tax cuts. "I am not looking forward to calling the Legislature to address the 'jobs bill,' " the governor said. But while ruling out broad-based tax cuts, she said she remains interested in tax incentives to spur economic recovery. Those incentives would be structured to pay for themselves -- in other words, the tax break would happen only after a certain number of jobs or revenue is created. When lawmakers might convene to consider incentives, ...read the rest of this post
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Tue, 11 May 2010 07:33:39 -0700
The Sierra Club finally wins one at the Legislature. The environmental group usually measures legislative success by how quickly the session ends, lest lawmakers do more damage to their pet causes of clean air, clean water, forests and wildlife. And it got that, sort of, when the Legislature wrapped up work after 109 days, one of the shortest sessions in the last 15 years. But the club really cashed in when its lobbyist, Sandy Bahr, won the sine-die pool. That's the pool in which staffers, lobbyists and hangers-on chip in a buck for each guess ...read the rest of this post
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Mon, 10 May 2010 15:59:38 -0700
The attorney for Rep. Doug Quelland, R-Phoenix, on Monday said the Citizens Clean Elections Commission "arbitrarily and capriciously" ignored critical facts in the lawmaker's campaign-finance case. That disregard means Maricopa Superior Court Judge Crane McClennan should send Quelland's case back to an administrative-law judge so those facts can be considered, attorney Tim Casey argued. But attorney Jose Jesus de Rivera, representing the commission, said the facts have been well-established in Quelland's long-running case. The judge should uphold the decisions made to date that Quelland must forfeit his seat in the Legislature for violating the state's public-finance and campaign-reporting laws, de Rivera said. "This ...read the rest of this post
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Fri, 07 May 2010 11:39:28 -0700
Two of Arizona’s more vocal female lawmakers got into a battle of e-mails over Arizona’s tough new immigration law this week. Each offered her own take on what Senate Bill 1070 really does. Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, sent out an e-mail Monday with the subject line “I want to explain SB1070.” She supported the bill. Here’s her explanation, pasted directly from her e-mail: “The leftist media has distorted what SB 1070 will do. It is not going to set up a Nazi Germany. Are you kidding. The ACLU and the leftist courts will do everything to protect those who are here illegally, but ...read the rest of this post
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Monday, May 03, 10 at 07:00 AM
PRESS RELEASE -- Tempe lawmakers' hard work lands bills on governor's desk
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Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:39:49 -0700
First lawmakers kill funding for the state Tourism Office. Now they're discouraging tourists from visiting the state. That was the message state Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, sent to Chad Allen, (no relation). Mr. Allen, an Idaho resident, wrote to all Arizona lawmakers informing them of his intent to drop his plans to vacation in Arizona. Sen. Allen's response: "That's ok. Stay home." Apparently, Mr. Allen doesn't intend to stay home. But his travels will take him elsewhere. Their email exchange is below, in reverse chronological order: v:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}o:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}w:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} I won’t stay home. I’m going to California or maybe Copper Canyon (It’s bigger). ...read the rest of this post
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Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:06:03 -0700
Don’t believe any notice you get from the Department of Public Safety suggesting you have to rat out the person who borrowed your car and got a photo radar ticket.
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Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:50:36 -0700
Geez, Attorney General Terry Goddard got off easy when he refused to file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the federal healthcare-reform law. He could be the Georgia AG. Down in the Peach State, AG Thurbert Baker is the subject of a recall effort for taking the same position as Goddard: A lawsuit would be frivolous and a waste of money. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue wanted to hire his own AG to press Georgia's case. But before that effort got very far, lawmakers started a petition to recall Baker, who has been Georgia's AG for 13 years. As of mid-week, the petition had 30 ...read the rest of this post
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Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:47:35 -0700
The House Majority Whip is considering a run for the GOP nomination for the Congressional District 1 seat, and he says he'll decide soon. "It's rather late in the game, in theory," said Andy Tobin, a second-term lawmaker from Paulden. The primary is Aug. 24. He said he is using his exploratory committee to size up the field of GOP contenders and decide if he could do better in terms of representing the sprawling district. If he does jump in, Tobin said he might not follow the lead of other colleagues who have resigned their legislative seats. But he said he is ...read the rest of this post
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Tuesday, Mar 09, 10 at 08:00 AM
PRESS RELEASE -- Brown to retire after nearly four decades as lawmaker
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Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:44:01 -0700
Rallies are a regular event at the state Capitol, as groups come to the statehouse to plead their case to lawmakers. But on Thursday, the microphone was on the other side of the podium, as Senate Democrats held a rally to cheer up state workers and urge their support for a bill that would cut legislative salaries if state employees' salaries are reduced. Leading the charge was Sen. Ken Cheuvront, D-Phoenix and sponsor of SCR1038. The pay-cut bill, which would ask voters to OK a policy that would trim legislative salaries in the same proportion as state-worker pay, passed the Senate Government Committtee, ...read the rest of this post
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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:25:46 -0700
As closed-door talks continue on the state budget, it appears lawmakers are angling for a smaller debt load than what Gov. Jan Brewer is proposing. A draft version of a budget proposal making the rounds at the Capitol also shows that legislators hope to ask voters to repeal an early-childhood program and direct its $325 million treasury into the state's general fund. Brewer has proposed borrowing $300 million from that fund, taking up a proposal from the directors of the First Things First program. A repeal would have to go on the November ballot and win voter OK before the state could tap the First ...read the rest of this post
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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:25:46 -0700
As closed-door talks continue on the state budget, it appears lawmakers are angling for a smaller debt load than what Gov. Jan Brewer is proposing. A draft version of a budget proposal making the rounds at the Capitol also shows that legislators hope to ask voters to repeal an early-childhood program and direct its $325 million treasury into the state's general fund. Brewer has proposed borrowing $300 million from that fund, taking up a proposal from the directors of the First Things First program. A repeal would have to go on the November ballot and win voter OK before the state could tap the First ...read the rest of this post
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Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:37:49 -0700
Two female Arizona Senators, one Democrat and one Republican, blew their tops at their fellow lawmakers during a Committee of the Whole hearing on Tuesday. Lawmakers have dubbed this "Budget Week" and cancelled most committee hearings to focus on the budget. But Tuesday's Committee of the Whole agendas included 28 bills and lasted for hours. One of those bills dealt with human eggs and another with human embryos. "The calendar today appears to me to be almost anti-female," Sen. Carolyn Allen, R-?? said. "This is not the year we should be loading up on all of these kinds of bills. We should focus on ...read the rest of this post
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Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:37:32 -0700
State lawmakers voted Wednesday to force public schools to count how many students are in the United States illegally, the first step toward challenging federal law that requires schools to educate all, legal and otherwise.
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Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:22:04 -0700
State lawmakers voted Wednesday to force public schools to count how many students are in this country illegally, the first step toward challenging federal law that requires schools to educate all, legal and otherwise.
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Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:53:42 -0700
Diamondbacks' first swing for a countywide sales tax increase to support spring training is a strike. At least at the state Capitol. The chairmen of the tax-writing committees gave the idea a thumbs down, and House Speaker Kirk Adams calls the idea "a non-starter." DBacks officials had floated the idea of a tax hike across all of Maricopa County to bolster spring training. They didn't get as far as mentioning how much of an increase, but not to worry. It probably won't get entertained in the current climate. Lawmakers have already referred a statewide increase in the sales tax to the May 18 ballot, and ...read the rest of this post