WASHINGTON (DC) – Congressman Ben Quayle issued the following statement after his bill, the Sunshine for Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2012 (H.R. 3862) passed out of the House Judiciary Committee. H.R. 3862 would increase the transparency and fairness of federal rulemaking by allowing public input and requiring notice when activist groups seek to [...]

INVITES YOU TO ATTEND Seminar on Child Sex Trafficking Join Bill Montgomery, Maricopa D.A. and Starbright Foundation Directors Lori Regnier and Michael Chalberg, in a discussion of what legislators and law enforcement is doing to crack down on child sex trafficking; and what you as a community can do in the prevention, intercession and recovery [...]

Finally, a Tucson civic event where a conservative gets a leading voice. On Friday, the Arizona Capitol Times is taking its informative Capitol Roadshow on the road to Tucson. Headlining one of the discussion panels is campaign consultant Constantin Querard, a staunch pro-life conservative. Querard is part of the discussion: Budgeting, Redistricting and the upcoming [...]

Conservative Bloggers Voice Support For Marketplace Fairness Act Consensus continues to grow regarding the need for e-fairness legislation as two prominent conservative bloggers recently voiced their support for the Marketplace Fairness Act. Neil Stevens’ post over the weekend on the conservative blog RedState explains how he’s come around on the idea of e-fairness legislation. From [...]

The following testimony is by Lynne LaMaster, Editor of eNewsAZ regarding the shenanigans being played out by the Arizona Newspaper Association and its allies in opposition to HB 2403. (Sonoran Alliance supports this legislation.) This entire experience has been very enlightening to me. I have learned far more than I ever imagined. One of the [...]

REPRESENTATIVE PRATT MOVES TO ENHANCE COORDINATION OF BORDER SECURITY ENFORCEMENT

STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX (February 14, 2012) – Casa Grande Representative Frank Pratt is the Primary sponsor of HB2831, which will create the Arizona Joint Operations Intelligence Center.

The focus of the Center will be to coordinate interagency …

By Lucy Morrow Caldwell Ask any grassroots activist and he’ll tell you that getting out the vote is tough, because the majority of Arizonans have busy lives beyond the ballot-box. Worse still, with elections happening at a variety of times throughout a two-year cycle, many voters don’t know when an election is taking place. This [...]