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Judge refuses to block minimum wage hike
A judge on Friday refused a request by business interests to immediately block the voter-approved hike in the minimum wage from taking effect as scheduled next year.
Chamber’s Katie Fischer joins Ducey administration
A new face will be at the Capitol lobbying for Gov. Doug Ducey’s agenda when the 2017 legislative session begins.
State Chamber of Commerce faces ‘uphill climb’ in opposing minimum wage measure
Three weeks before Arizonans start voting, a statewide business group has finally launched a campaign to kill Proposition 206.
Clean Elections initiative calls it quits
A campaign for a proposed citizen initiative that would have dramatically expanded Arizona’s Clean Elections system for publicly funding political campaigns called it quits, saying it couldn’t collect enough signatures before the upcoming July 7 deadline because of “dirty tricks” by the Arizona Chamber of Commerce.
Raise your hand if this surprised you
Arizona Chamber of Commerce members “overwhelmingly” back President Glenn Hamer’s appeal to support the chamber’s opposition to a host of citizen initiatives, said spokesman Garrick Taylor.
Us versus them
In an email on Friday, the Arizona Chamber of Commerce asked members to weigh in on whether it should oppose and work to defeat three proposed ballot measures that it... […]
It’s not so far off the mark after all
Last week, Arizona Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Glenn Hamer bitterly complained about the claim that, under S1516 (campaign finance amendments), the state is ceding its authority to regulate campaign spending to the feds. “This claim is so far off the mark as to make me wonder whether the media doesn’t understand campaign laws or whether it’s choosing just to ignore the facts,” Ha[...]
Glennian logic
Arizona Chamber CEO and President Glenn Hamer vigorously defended S1516 (campaign finance amendments) against “wildly inaccurate” claims that he said are being perpetuated by the media. “We’re all entitled to our own opinions, but not to our own facts,” he wrote in a blog.
Demand-based rate strategy makes sense
Media coverage of the electricity rate case filed by UniSource Energy Services (UES) has promoted dire predictions from California-based rooftop solar leasing companies that oppose the proposal. We encourage every utility customer to consider the facts of the UES case.
Recipes for sausage-making
Former Clean Elections Commissioner Louis Hoffman responded to the Arizona Chamber of Commerce's suggested revisions to the commission's proposed "political committee" rule with some changes of his own.
Proposal to cap tuition gets frosty reception
A proposal for a ballot measure to cap tuition rates at the state’s three universities got a tepid response from the Arizona Board of Regents, the Governor’s Office and the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Jeb Bush changes Iraq invasion answer to ‘no’ in speech to Arizona Chamber
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Thursday he would not have invaded Iraq, as his brother did more than a decade ago, had he been president at the time and had he known then what he knows now.
