Arizona behaving badly and otherwise

[Ben-Prime]

On local radio they said the county is reprogramming everything to be on the safe side, due to the fob theft. To the tune of $20k+. Hope they can recover some of that from this dirtbag.

Hell, I've seen folks get charged 5k for the rekeying of office doors when they lose an office keyfob. Any smart employer puts this in the employee handbook. It may not even need to be part of the criminal charge, if he was an employee authorized to use one and then misused/abused it. IANAL disclaimer, of course.

[raison de arizona]

Mayes has been properly chastened and gives up. Apparently the terms of the settlement don't matter and the state can actually use the opiod funds to do whatever they want. Sad.

[Foggy]

My state used the tobacco settlement money to teach tobacco growers how to grow tobacco more efficiently.

[raison de arizona]

People come in from out of town and don't respect the awesome power of the heat. I've been walking the dog around 5:30am and it is already 90 degrees half the time. There is a law against dogs on the trail in Phoenix when the heat is in excess of 100 degrees. It was 113 degrees yesterday. I don't think a law against kids on the trail in this heat would have done anything though, because it sounds like these people were from out of town and probably would have been ignorant of that as well. Or maybe it would. South Mountain is a popular, maybe more signage at the trailhead really hammering home the dangers of the heat? I dunno. Sad.

10-year-old boy dies after being rescued from South Mountain during triple-digit temps
Phoenix Fire says the boy died due to a heat-related medical event while on a hike

A 10-year-old boy has died after being rescued from South Mountain on Tuesday.

Phoenix Fire officials say the boy was with adults and may have been visiting from out of town.

He reportedly went for a hike at around 9:30 a.m. and it wasn't until about 2:30 p.m. when firefighters were alerted to a heat-related emergency.

Firefighters used a helicopter to get the boy down from the mountain. He was taken to a hospital by ambulance where he later died due to a result of a heat-related medical event.

Today's forecasted high in Phoenix was set for 113 degrees.

https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoen ... h-mountain

[raison de arizona]

An astonishing 20% of registered voters signed, including me and mine.

Abortion access seems set for ballot after gathering signatures from 1 in 5 registered voters

A coalition of abortion rights groups on Wednesday turned in signatures from 823,685 voters, more than double what is needed to put the Arizona Abortion Access Act on the November ballot.

Supporters said the total was the most ever gathered in state history.

The massive number creates a large buffer to withstand review by election officials and any legal challenges to the signatures’ validity that may be forthcoming. The number of signatures gathered represents roughly one of every five registered voters in the state.

"What we’re turning in is a show of strength of the campaign, but also strength of the issue of protecting abortion,” said Chris Love, a spokeswoman for the Arizona for Abortion Access campaign. “And I'm confident that we will obviously appear on the ballot, but more importantly, I'm confident that we’ll win in November.”

The ballot measure, if approved by voters on Nov. 5, would create a right to abortion in the Arizona Constitution. The campaign needed 383,923 signatures by Wednesday’s deadline to submit petitions to the Arizona Secretary of State's Office.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/po ... 270307007/

[p0rtia]

Wow! Bless you, AZ Dems and Dem-curious folk.

[raison de arizona]

they're aren't effing around with this

NOW ⁦@AZSecretary Adrian Fontes explains why bomb-sniffing dogs are being used for 1st time as petition signatures for ballot initiatives are dropped off all day at his office.

[raison de arizona]

https://x.com/BrianFerence1/status/1808522431432466490

BREAKING: Maricopa GOP @MaricopaGOP EGC passes vote of no confidence against Stephen Richer @stephen_richer

[Slim Cognito]

Badge of honor

[p0rtia]

[RTH10260]

Interview

‘The claims are just outrageous’: Republican ex-governor condemns Arizona election lies
Jan Brewer has had it with election denialism – and she’s speaking out to defend poll workers across the political divide

Rachel Leingang
Fri 5 Jul 2024 13.00 CEST

The former governor of Arizona, once a Trump surrogate in the swing state, is now speaking up to defend the state’s elections as election denialism continues to grip Republican politics.

Jan Brewer, the Republican governor from 2009 to 2015, signed an infamous anti-immigration law, which reverberated in state politics and affected the state’s reputation for years. She was secretary of state, which oversees elections, before becoming governor.

She is, by no means, a centrist, though those to her right now call her a Rino, a Republican In Name Only. She said she’s had enough of a spate of election lies coming from her party in recent years – though she’s also quick to note that Democrats have spread election doubts in the past, too.

In recent weeks, she wrote an op-ed in the Arizona Republic, the state’s largest daily newspaper, to call on Republicans to stop attacking elections, writing that she wants to “pull us back from the brink of election denialism, and get back to focusing on actual policy so we can win elections with our conservative ideas”.

She’s joined with two organizations, RightCount and the Democracy Defense Project, to publicly defend elections, alongside other Republicans and people across the political spectrum. She’s also endorsed Maricopa county candidates in Republican primaries who stood up to their party against intense pressure to overturn the 2020 election results.

“You have to stand up and defend the integrity of our electoral system, because that’s what unites us,” she said in an interview with the Guardian. “It’s so important that people understand that.”


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/art ... jan-brewer

[p0rtia]

That we should live to see the day when (checks notes) Jan Brewer (checks nots again), effing Jan Brewer, would stand up against the fascist forces in the AZ MAGA crowd is Just. Astonishing.

Nothing is impossible.

And AZ remains the focal point of the nation's future.

Go Jan!

[raison de arizona]

It's hot today.

[neonzx]

It's hot today.

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Yahbut. It's a Dry heat.

[raison de arizona]

It's hot today.

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Yahbut. It's a Dry heat.

Around these here parts, we pronounce that a dry hate. But that's just because of the prevalence of crazy trumpers.

[sugar magnolia]

It's hot today.

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Yahbut. It's a Dry heat.

Around these here parts, we pronounce that a dry hate. But that's just because of the prevalence of crazy trumpers.

How much difference is there between your actual temp and the "feels like" temp usually? Our feels like temp was called the "sweat factor' up until a few years ago when we had an actual cold winter and they couldn't say "ball shrinkage factor" or "nipple factor" or whatever on television.

[raison de arizona]

How much difference is there between your actual temp and the "feels like" temp usually? Our feels like temp was called the "sweat factor' up until a few years ago when we had an actual cold winter and they couldn't say "ball shrinkage factor" or "nipple factor" or whatever on television.

"Real feel" in AZ is generally the same as the actual temperature due to the lack of humidity. Sometimes it is actually lower due to "wind chill" and whatnot, I guess a 108 degree wind on a 118 degree day actually makes thing feel cooler. Or something.

[poplove]

It's hot today.

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Yahbut. It's a Dry heat.

Yep. Just like my oven.

[raison de arizona]

It's hot today.

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Yahbut. It's a Dry heat.

Yep. Just like my oven.

It's just like an oven. You know that feeling when you open the oven to look in at whatever you are cooking and the heat radiates out into your face? That's what it feels like walking out into 118. Like walking into an oven. And the sidewalk burns yer tootsies to boot.

[Kendra]

I remember being in Phoenix in June after my father died. We Pacific NW siblings just about died. Even if you have AC there, one still has to go outside to get in the car and drive to the store and there's no AC between the car and the store entrance. Yeah, the pool is nice and cool, but the heat still blasts your head and shoulders above water. Ugh.

[Ben-Prime]

It's hot today.

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Yahbut. It's a Dry heat.

I love that this has become such a meme that now, in the computer game Civilization VI, you get a score bump when you settle a city that has more than 2 or 3 desert tiles and the banner for that outright reads, "Visitors complain about the heat of [city name], but at least it's a dry heat."

[poplove]

Yahbut. It's a Dry heat.

Yep. Just like my oven.

It's just like an oven. You know that feeling when you open the oven to look in at whatever you are cooking and the heat radiates out into your face? That's what it feels like walking out into 118. Like walking into an oven. And the sidewalk burns yer tootsies to boot.

Oh, I've known the joys of desert living for 35 years. I have several photos of my car thermometer showing 122 degrees. And we are expecting 118 on Sunday.

[raison de arizona]

Yep. Just like my oven.

It's just like an oven. You know that feeling when you open the oven to look in at whatever you are cooking and the heat radiates out into your face? That's what it feels like walking out into 118. Like walking into an oven. And the sidewalk burns yer tootsies to boot.

Oh, I've known the joys of desert living for 35 years. I have several photos of my car thermometer showing 122 degrees. And we are expecting 118 on Sunday.

stay cool!

[poplove]

It's just like an oven. You know that feeling when you open the oven to look in at whatever you are cooking and the heat radiates out into your face? That's what it feels like walking out into 118. Like walking into an oven. And the sidewalk burns yer tootsies to boot.

Oh, I've known the joys of desert living for 35 years. I have several photos of my car thermometer showing 122 degrees. And we are expecting 118 on Sunday.

stay cool!

Thanks, you too! Our house has two a/c units that are one and two years old and they are more powerful and efficient than the last ones so we are very cool. And I always have my insulated jug of ice water when I go anywhere.

[RTH10260]

It's hot today.

Fun fact - in Switzerland 118 is the emergency number to call the fire department