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Dispute over school choice funding means ballot measure for teacher pay unlikely
Key Points: Teacher pay hike stalled over GOP demand for school vouchers Governor Hobbs rejects tying voucher expansion to education funding plan Special election unlikely as attention shifts to budget […]
Gov. Hobbs nears state veto record with GOP bills still in the pipeline
Key Points:Â Gov. Hobbs is five vetoes short of the state record for governor She blames Republic legislators for passing large numbers of bad bills Many of the rejected bills […]
Recall effort against 4 GOP lawmakers continues, despite passage of funding bill
Key Points: Parents of disabled children have formed a group to recall four GOP lawmakers There’s only been one successful recall of a sitting state legislator in Arizona Recall efforts […]
State Republicans propose ban on birth certificate changes for transgender Arizonans
Key Points: Lawmaker says transgender Arizonans can’t amend their birth certificates Their measure seeks to overturn judge’s ruling that surgery isn’t necessary to amend a birth certificate State Republicans say […]
‘Political warfare’: Republicans and Gov. Hobbs standoff on disabilities funding
Key Points The Division of Developmental Disabilities needs $122 to maintain services Republicans have proposed funding by pulling from other programs The governor placed a moratorium on all bills until […]
Republicans have a plan to fund Arizona’s disabilities programs, but Democrats aren’t happy with it.
Key points: Republicans passed the $122 million funding bill on party lines Democrats oppose the funding as it pulls from other social programs The House Majority Whip seeks a bipartisan […]
AZ Republicans showed why Puerto Rico statehood should be a GOP cause
Last November, Arizona’s Latinos overwhelmingly swung to the right side of the aisle. We saw this trend across the country and many were surprised, but we weren’t. While Democrats told […]
House Appropriations Committee believes a signed budget possible by April
With an approaching deadline to pay disability services providers, the House Appropriations Committee chairman said it’s a realistic goal for the Legislature to get a budget signed by Gov. Katie […]
Hobbs disapproves of automatic income tax cut passed in Senate
Republicans who control the Arizona Legislature are looking to enact more tax cuts just four years after the largest tax cut in state history turned state finances on their head […]
Democrats Must Counter Turning Point
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is a wildfire that Democrats must quell. Headquartered in Phoenix, TPUSA is no longer a fringe organization that can be dismissed. They have a massive presence, […]
Battle royale over childhood disabilities programs continues
Gov. Katie Hobbs lashed out Feb. 26 at Republican lawmakers, accusing them of using families with children with developmental disabilities as “pawns” in the fight over the budget. “Their negligence […]
Republicans use Legislature’s first week to make case against Hobbs’ reelection
The first week at the Legislature saw both parties and two branches of government laying out their plans for the 2025 session. But it also saw Republicans lay out their plan to make Gov. Katie Hobbs a one-term governor.Â
