Andres Cano called for a US Department of Justice Investigation of the Republican Fraudit in Maricopa County. The recount of Maricopa ballots by the Cyber Ninjas/State Senate, "Is a huge travesty of the biggest proportions we've ever seen." He spoke at the July 12, 2021 meeting of Democrats of Greater Tucson. The Senate GOP audit just announced that their bungled efforts have forced them to recount their own recount. Maricopa County voters cast 2,089,563 ballots, but the partisan audit failed to match that number.   BREAKING NEWS: House Committee on Oversight and Reform Launches an Investigation into Arizona Senate’s GQP Sham [...]

An opinion piece in the Washington Post by Katrina Vanden Heuvel jolted me into a gnawing fear. Our Party is failing to face up to the hardening Republican opposition to any action to address such as infrastructure needs, the economic position of middle-class families, and protecting the integrity of our election systems (in the face of Republican-led state legislatures to torque them in favor of Republicans). I have seen this play before. In 2009, the Obama Administration and the feckless leadership in the Senate failed to portray the Affordable Care Act as an essential step toward better health care. I [...]

The veteran columnist and commentator, Elizabeth Drew, wrote an essay entitled The Big Lie and Its Consequences. She says that the Republican Party has taken the Big Lie about the 2020 presidential election to new lengths to suppress voting and to manipulate voting results to benefit their candidates up and down ballots. She goes on to conclude: "Republicans at the state level are rushing out legislation designed to make it harder for Blacks to vote," says Elizabeth Drew. "By questioning the very integrity of America's electoral system [the Republican Party] now represents an open threat to the US [...]

Attorney and Constitutional scholar Bob McWhirter is days away from announcing a run for Arizona Attorney General in 2022. A Democrat and Trump critic, he has spoken twice at Democrats of Greater Tucson. See Robert McWhirter: the Constitution and Donald Trump and Donald Trump vs. the Constitution.  Democrat January Contreras, who ran for Attorney General in 2018, said she will not run again. One Democrat running for A.G. is state Rep. Diego Rodriguez, of LD27 in Phoenix, but he is considered a weak fundraiser.  There is a possibility that US Rep. Greg Stanton, a Congressman in CD9, Ex-Phoenix Mayor, and [...]

After the shooting, Jennifer Longdon began to raise awareness and improve the lives of people with disabilities. She also devoted significant time to gun violence prevention. Are you looking to make a positive impact on your community? Are you ready to take your activism to the next level? Running for office could be a path worth exploring. Political campaigns can be challenging, whether at the federal, state, or local level. And when you live with a disability, those challenges can be amplified and greater in number. But that doesn’t mean that your dream of being an inspiring, problem-solving community leader [...]