HB2853 was signed into law. We only have until mid-September to collect 118,823 signatures to put it on the November ballot. HB2853 is a universal school voucher expansion. If it isn’t stopped, it will be the first of its kind in the United States and the death knell for public education in Arizona. It will subsidize private school education including elite and religious schools. There are no constraints on who is eligible and little accountability or transparency.
Help us get the word out. Please post this petition event on your social media accounts and share with family, friends and neighbors. Take a petition to collect some signatures. Email jmmecc@gmail.com and we will get you everything you need.
HB2853 was signed into law. We only have until mid-September to collect 118,823 signatures to put it on the November ballot. HB2853 is a universal school voucher expansion. If it isn’t stopped, it will be the first of its kind in the United States and the death knell for public education in Arizona. It will subsidize private school education including elite and religious schools. There are no constraints on who is eligible and little accountability or transparency.
Help us get the word out. Please post this petition event on your social media accounts and share with family, friends and neighbors. Take a petition to collect some signatures. Email jmmecc@gmail.com and we will get you everything you need.
HB2853 was signed into law. We only have until mid-September to collect 118,823 signatures to put it on the November ballot. HB2853 is a universal school voucher expansion. If it isn’t stopped, it will be the first of its kind in the United States and the death knell for public education in Arizona. It will subsidize private school education including elite and religious schools. There are no constraints on who is eligible and little accountability or transparency.
Help us get the word out. Please post this petition event on your social media accounts and share with family, friends and neighbors. Take a petition to collect some signatures. Email jmmecc@gmail.com and we will get you everything you need.
HB2853 was signed into law. We only have until mid-September to collect 118,823 signatures to put it on the November ballot. HB2853 is a universal school voucher expansion. If it isn’t stopped, it will be the first of its kind in the United States and the death knell for public education in Arizona. It will subsidize private school education including elite and religious schools. There are no constraints on who is eligible and little accountability or transparency.
Help us get the word out. Please post this petition event on your social media accounts and share with family, friends and neighbors. Take a petition to collect some signatures. Email jmmecc@gmail.com and we will get you everything you need.
HB2853 was signed into law. We only have until mid-September to collect 118,823 signatures to put it on the November ballot. HB2853 is a universal school voucher expansion. If it isn’t stopped, it will be the first of its kind in the United States and the death knell for public education in Arizona. It will subsidize private school education including elite and religious schools. There are no constraints on who is eligible and little accountability or transparency.
Help us get the word out. Please post this petition event on your social media accounts and share with family, friends and neighbors. Take a petition to collect some signatures. Email jmmecc@gmail.com and we will get you everything you need.
Please join the Democrats of Oro Valley on Monday, March 8th at 6:30 PM for a video conference meeting with Ruth Bunny Davis , a founding member of AZ Public Square whose mission is to help Arizonans engage with local politics. Visitors to the web site can find current bills and information on important issues. Bunny wears many hats including: attorney, consultant in public policy and social justice, mental health counselor, wife and mother. Bunny will be speaking on the topic “words matter”.
Bills Advancing Many Republican bills are advancing in the AZ legislature. Below is a list of some bills up for the Committee of a Whole (COW) or a Third Reading. These are the last stages of a full vote of that house. If you click on the bill number, a pdf summary of the bill will appear.
What can we do? * Use Request to Speak Evelyn’s trick – go to My Bill Positions and fill in the bill number at the top. The bill number with a description will appear. Click on it. You can vote up or down without comment. * Contact Representatives: State Senator Vince Leach — President Pro Tempore Email: VLEACH (602) 926-3106 Karen Fann — President Senate Email: KFANN (602) 926-5874 Russell “Rusty” Bowers — Speaker of the House Email: RBOWERS (602) 926-3128 * Write letters to the editor: AZ Daily Star Tucson Local Media AZ Daily Sun SB1020 Removes the ability of a county recorder or other officer in charge of elections to designate emergency non-electioneering polling places. COW 2 February 22nd SB1105 Increases, from 100 to 200 words, the length of an initiative or referendum description included on initiative and referendum petitions. Senate – COW #3 – February 22, 2021 SB1268 Outlines requirements for a labor organization that collects benefit monies or union dues (labor organization) relating to financial disclosures, benefit choice and benefit contributions. Senate – COW – February 22, 2021 SB1377 Establishes, retroactive to March 11, 2020, reduces civil liability standards for specified acts or omissions during a state of emergency for a public health pandemic. Senate – COW #3 – February 22, 2021 SB1494 Requires, retroactive to taxable years beginning January 1, 2020, the amount of any Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) premiums paid or incurred by a taxpayer that is disallowed as a deduction for federal income tax purposes to be subtracted when computing a corporation’s Arizona gross income. Senate – Third Reading – February 22, 2021 SCR1009 Supports the enactment of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act and the Ensuring Accurate and Complete Abortion Data Reporting Act of 2019. Senate – COW – February 22, 2021
It appears that the effort to recall Mark Finchem has stalled. Creosote Partners recommended that Rural AZ Action take over the recall campaign and they in turn have decided to take another tact. Please read past the headline of the article below to the end section about the Finchem recall for more details. Tucsoncom article You may want to let them know how you feel about the recall Mark Finchem effort: https://recallfinchem.com/contact/ Creosote Partners Rural AZ ActionYou can also call House Speaker Rusty Bowers (602-926-3128) and ask him to expel insurrectionist Mark Finchem (R-LD11). Below is the contact information for AZ House of Representative members. AZ House Roster List of AZ House Leadership And don’t forget the power of the pen. You can also write letters to the editor that Mark Finchem must be expelled for his actions before, during and after the January 6th insurrection.
