Maybe we need more women at the Capitol to ratify the ERA

Why are Arizona Sen. Eddie Farnsworth and House Speaker Rusty Bowers so afraid of allowing the Equal Rights Amendment to come to a vote?

I am hearing that Sen. Farnsworth has two ERA Senate Concurrent Resolutions (one sponsored by LD23 Republican Senator Michelle Ugenti-Rita) bottled up in the Judiciary Committee to prevent his Senate colleagues from voting in support of the ERA.

Over in the House, Speaker Rusty Bowers is seemingly refusing to even assign ERA House Concurrent Resolution 2030 to a committee for hearing.

In a state where over 90 percent of Republicans, independents and Democrats favor passage of the ERA, how can just two men keep Arizona from being the 38th and final state to ratify the ERA?

With Farnsworth and Bowers so brazenly undermining our state’s representative democracy and the will of Arizona voters, has the time perhaps come for their legislative constituents to start looking for better qualified and more competent women to represent them?

Use money seized from cartels to build the U.S.-Mexico border wall

Much has been said about Mexico paying for a southern border wall or barrier.

Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La., pointed out that the U.S. government seizes about $5 billion annually from Mexican drug cartels in either cash or assets through the Assets Forfeiture Fund.

Why not use that money to build proper walls or barriers at strategic locations and beef up technology and personnel at ports of entry?

If it is truly the money that Democrats do not want to spend, and we have

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If it’s called murder on the street, why is it legal in abortion clinics?

Fabian Durazo is accused of stabbing Lyft driver Kristina Howato and her unborn baby to death.

He is being charged with two counts first-degree murder, among other of charges.

If Durazo can be charged with firstdegree murder for killing the unborn baby, why are abortion doctors not charged with killing the unborn baby during an abortion?

I fail to see the distinction.

If I were Fabian’s lawyer, I’d argue that the baby murder charge should be dropped.

Abortionist doctors kill approximately 3,000 unborn babies every day with no (legal) consequences.

How they deal with their own conscience is a different matter between them and God.

The policy solution that stems from money that grows on trees

I know $12,000 per year isn’t much, but where is New York entrepreneur and Democratic candidate for president Andrew Yang going to get money to pay every American adult $12,000 a year?

This is liberal insanity in the purist form.

Maybe he’s trying to appeal to those who don’t want to ever go to work. Could lazy people be this asinine?

How could any hard working person vote for anyone who has such wacky ideas that may put them out of work. It’s clear that all the liberal quacks who have thrown their name in the threering circus of the 2020 presidential race are pushing this country toward progressive socialism.

If the voters swallow their baloney then next will go the Constitution and our freedom.

I’m sick of this kind of representation.