House GOP leaders plan to put their state spending plan and tax-cut package up for a vote Monday.It's unlikely, though, that they currently have the votes a fact they acknowledge. But the strategy appears to be: Get everyone on record and then figure out where to go from there.The decision comes more than a week after legislative leaders temporarily sent everyone home, given
Updated: Thursday, May 27, 2021 - 5:03pm
Republican leaders in the Arizona Senate, facing opposition from lawmakers in their own party, gave up plans to push through a $12.8 billion budget Thursday afternoon.
At least one GOP senator, Paul Boyer, has balked at a proposal in the budget to flatten Arizona’s income tax to 2.5%. The Glendale Republican told KJZZ’s “The Show” he’s concerned a massive reduction in tax collections will harm the finances of Arizona cities and towns, who receive a share of the revenue collected by the state.
Sen. Martin Quezada (D-Glendale) said he spoke to other Republicans on Thursday who also said they’d vote no on the GOP budget plan.
What do missing files, ballot claims around the Maricopa county election audit mean?
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Arizona State Senate President Karen Fann (R- Prescott) sent a letter to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors informing them that auditors have discovered âserious issues.â Fann identifies three issues in particular: Non-compliance of the legislative subpoena, chain of custody issues with the ballots, and evidence of database files being removed from the election management computer.
The letter was sent to Maricopa county on the same day that Arizona Secretary of State, Democrat Katie Hobbs, released a statement on social media that observers representing her office had located a wireless router connected to the audit network.
The Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix.
A controversial review of the 2020 general election returns in Maricopa County will go on a one-week hiatus.
The long-anticipated pause was set in stone on Wednesday, when Senate President Karen Fann (R-Prescott) signed an agreement to extend the Senate’s lease at the Arizona State Fairgrounds through the end of June.
Private firms hired by Fann and Senate Republicans will move nearly 2.1 million ballots and voting equipment out of Veterans Memorial Coliseum and into the Wesley Bolin Building on the fairgrounds, making way for high school graduation ceremonies next week. The Phoenix Union High School District has the coliseum booked the entire week of May 17, an arrangement well known prior to the Senate’s agreement.