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Good revenues belie looming budget uncertainty
With COVID-19 again on the rise in Arizona and the next legislative session looming, some in the Legislature are coming around to the idea of passing a so-called “skinny budget” that retains baseline spending levels from the previous fiscal year and ducking out early, just as lawmakers did last session.
GOP feud fuels official’s resignation amid vote fraud claims
Rae Chornenky – the former Maricopa County Republican chair whose resignation capped off an election season full of intra-party conflict – admits she probably should have seen it all coming. “Now that I stand back here and look, this has been building my whole term,” she told the Arizona Capitol Times in an interview about […]
Democratic House wins, losses – a tale of 3 districts
People don’t know who their legislators are. At least, that’s the contention of Joel John, the Republican irrigation business owner who unseated Rep. Gerae Peten in Legislative District 4.
Obit: Former lawmaker Jerry Overton
Former lawmaker Jerry Overton, a Republican who served in the Legislature for nine years in the late 1990s and early 2000s, passed away earlier this month, the Capitol Times has learned.
Blame falls on Fernandez for Dems not taking House
Several key races in the state House remain too close to call with the first batch of Election-Day ballots counted, though Democrats, as has been the trend for the last week, are leading in early votes.
Conservative Republicans feared losing voters if economy didn’t reopen in May
In a letter sent to their colleagues in May, a group of conservative legislators fretted over the political cost if Gov. Doug Ducey didn’t reopen the state’s economy, lamented a lack of credit for their efforts to end the shutdown and justified their public criticism of the governor by pointing to a per diem increase that he vetoed.
Fann selects Republican Douglas York for IRC
Senate President Karen Fann has selected Douglas York, a Republican from Maricopa County, to serve on the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, the Senate GOP announced today.
Fernandez, rebuffed by judge, picks Shereen Lerner for IRC
House Minority Leader Charlene Fernandez this afternoon picked Democrat Shereen Lerner to serve on the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, a decision that came only a few hours after a Maricopa County Superior Court judge denied a request from Democratic legislative leadership for a temporary restraining order to halt the nomination process.
LD23 awash in curious campaign conflicts
The progression of the election season seems to have only encouraged candidates for the House in Legislative District 23 to continue accusing each other of criminal misdeeds.
Legislative ‘IE’ spending outpaces 2018 by wide margin
Outside spending in legislative races has already trumped the 2018 election cycle with two-plus weeks still to go until Election Day, recent campaign finance reports show.
In LD20, Democrats see road to power
Republicans maintain a roughly 5,000-voter advantage. Surmountable, sure, but the outcome is hardly set in stone. They say they believe they are better prepared than they were in 2018, when the Democrats surged to a 29-31 split in the House, propelled by voters activated by education and the Red for Ed movement.
Sierra hospitalized with COVID-19 complications in D.C.
Rep. Lorenzo Sierra was admitted to a hospital in Washington, D.C. last night with complications from COVID-19, the Arizona House Democratic caucus announced this morning.
