"Lawmakers also want voters to make it harder to pass citizen initiatives..." Or: Lawmakers want more voters to have a say in what initiatives make the statewide ballot.
Nah, they just intend to make it more expensive and logistically challenging for citizens to exercise their constitutional right to legislate via the initiative. This doesn't give anyone MORE say on initiatives, only less choices on the ballot.
The first two paragraphs are a bit confusing, pivoting from the new primary date (July 30) to what and who will be on the November general ballot (president; initiatives). Perhaps just a clarification? The info on initiatives is very helpful and welcome!
AZ Agenda at its best - thorough and balanced information about the potential initiatives (all I can think, personally, is heaven help us all, what a year this will be!).
In regards to prop 123, the Democratic bills were introduced last Monday. SCR1029 (Marsh) and HCR2044 (Scheibert).
In addition the Republicans actually have two halfs to their Prop 123 plan (and both are required to pass.) The other 2 halfs are SCR1034 (Hoffman) / HCR2048 (Smith)
One thing I did not realize about 123 and the possible continuation bills is that they fund both public school and charter school teachers. I thought the whole idea of charter schools was that they only received a per pupil fee for students they enroll and would find efficiencies and cost savings the public schools couldn't or wouldn't. It doesn't make any sense to me that we should be subsidizing the wages of private and for-profit schools with more public funds. If we are going to use public money to pay private employees, the recipients should at least be non-profits, no?
Congrats on the advancement of the Don Bolles bill! And thank you for the explanation of how initiatives get to the ballot. It seems one party wants to do an end-run on the Governor's veto pen *and* scare off voters, with a long list of nonsense initiatives. Forewarned is forearmed!
And that is why I like to get a mail-in ballot ahead of time, so that I can, at my leisure, educate myself on all of the issues & candidates (like all of those justices), and make informed selections. Otherwise it's like that time in college where you went to class & forgot there was an exam that day, for which you were totally unprepared because you hadn't studied.
I don't know, having the Republicans stand in line in the blistering heat on July 30 might get me to go to the polls and offer water to people in line, then apologize for it being against the law. Average daily high for that date is 105.9, but got to 118 in 2020–so I'm wondering if they're going to try and finagle way more primary voting locations/opportunities in the Republican precincts, then go back to making it as hard to vote as possible for the general.
Oops, you meant July 30 (in the first paragraph where you are initially saying June 30). And later you refer to Airbns and I think you meant Airbnbs.
Thank you I’m dyslexic and those words look the same lol
"Lawmakers also want voters to make it harder to pass citizen initiatives..." Or: Lawmakers want more voters to have a say in what initiatives make the statewide ballot.
Nah, they just intend to make it more expensive and logistically challenging for citizens to exercise their constitutional right to legislate via the initiative. This doesn't give anyone MORE say on initiatives, only less choices on the ballot.
The first two paragraphs are a bit confusing, pivoting from the new primary date (July 30) to what and who will be on the November general ballot (president; initiatives). Perhaps just a clarification? The info on initiatives is very helpful and welcome!
AZ Agenda at its best - thorough and balanced information about the potential initiatives (all I can think, personally, is heaven help us all, what a year this will be!).
In regards to prop 123, the Democratic bills were introduced last Monday. SCR1029 (Marsh) and HCR2044 (Scheibert).
In addition the Republicans actually have two halfs to their Prop 123 plan (and both are required to pass.) The other 2 halfs are SCR1034 (Hoffman) / HCR2048 (Smith)
*halves
One thing I did not realize about 123 and the possible continuation bills is that they fund both public school and charter school teachers. I thought the whole idea of charter schools was that they only received a per pupil fee for students they enroll and would find efficiencies and cost savings the public schools couldn't or wouldn't. It doesn't make any sense to me that we should be subsidizing the wages of private and for-profit schools with more public funds. If we are going to use public money to pay private employees, the recipients should at least be non-profits, no?
Congrats on the advancement of the Don Bolles bill! And thank you for the explanation of how initiatives get to the ballot. It seems one party wants to do an end-run on the Governor's veto pen *and* scare off voters, with a long list of nonsense initiatives. Forewarned is forearmed!
And that is why I like to get a mail-in ballot ahead of time, so that I can, at my leisure, educate myself on all of the issues & candidates (like all of those justices), and make informed selections. Otherwise it's like that time in college where you went to class & forgot there was an exam that day, for which you were totally unprepared because you hadn't studied.
I don't know, having the Republicans stand in line in the blistering heat on July 30 might get me to go to the polls and offer water to people in line, then apologize for it being against the law. Average daily high for that date is 105.9, but got to 118 in 2020–so I'm wondering if they're going to try and finagle way more primary voting locations/opportunities in the Republican precincts, then go back to making it as hard to vote as possible for the general.