We are starting our DFA new year by soliciting more Democratic candidates. We should have a candidate in every race starting with your school board and going up to Senator. The Senator race might be covered if everyone will check out the Rodney Glassman site.   Rodney will be our speaker at our February 3rd meeting. [...]

THE ISSUE: During the November 2008 election, the payday industry tried to pass Proposition 200 in Arizona – an initiative that would have allowed the payday lenders to bleed hard-working Arizonans with 400 percent interest rates forever.  Arizona voters said “No!” to the payday lenders – loud and clear – rejecting Proposition 200 by a [...]

Conservative courts may soon invalidate the matching funds provision of Arizona’s Citizens Clean Elections Act.  Longtime foes of Clean Elections view this as their opportunity to end public campaign financing in Arizona and return to a time when big-money was the primary factor deciding who would represent our communities in legislative and statewide elective offices.  [...]