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The policies being pushed and the actions being taken by the Republican-controlled Arizona Legislature and Gov. Doug Ducey would have racists dancing in their white robes and pointy little party hats.
Between the ongoing voter suppression efforts in the Legislature and Ducey’s newfound concern for the border, Arizona’s leaders are tilting dangerously close to the supremacists’ go-to conspiracy – the white “replacement theory.”
Some wrongly believe they re being replaced
Boiled down to its ugly core it is the belief that there is a conspiracy out there to have white people replaced by Black and brown migrants.
After hours of contentious debate, Arizona House Republicans approved a bill that would purge voters from the state’s popular mail-ballot system.
Senate Bill 1485 would end the permanent aspect of the Permanent Early Voting List, the roster of voters who’ve elected to receive a ballot by mail weeks before Election Day. The Republican-approved measure would remove voters from the list if they don’t use that early ballot to vote for two consecutive two-year election cycles.
The bill had stalled for over a month in the House after narrowly clearing the Senate in March.
The bill’s sponsor, Republican Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, held a fiery press conference on Monday where she lashed out at the bill’s critics, but also promised changes to the bill to make it more palatable. A day later, before approving the bill on a 31-29 party line vote, Republicans adopted amendments to SB 1485 to give voters who fail to vote often enough more time to respond to confirm to election offic
The Arizona House delivered payback to certain Arizona voters on Tuesday, approving a bill that would purge easily more than 100,000 people from the state’s early voting rolls.
Not only did House Republicans make it more difficult for a certain sort of voter to cast a ballot in future elections, they refused even to allow debate on the bill.
Then, during the final roll call when legislators are allowed to explain their votes, they silenced any Democrat who dared point to the big hairy elephant in the room.
“This,” said Rep. Aaron Lieberman, D-Phoenix, “is an effort to make it harder for people of color to vote.”
Arizona GOP lawmaker casually uses racist slur to describe Black voters
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Republican state Rep. Travis Grantham used the term while condemning a Democratic lawmaker who said the GOP s voter suppression bill targets Black people.
A Republican state lawmaker in Arizona on Tuesday used the racist slur colored people to describe Black voters in the state.
State Rep. Travis Grantham used the language which was prevalent in the racist, segregationist pre-Civil Rights South and has been considered inappropriate for decades as he condemned a speech from state Rep. Reginald Bolding, a Black lawmaker who said a voter suppression bill that was being debated targets Black voters, among others.