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AZLD4Candidate

(6,331 posts)
Mon Oct 7, 2024, 10:31 AM Oct 7

Look at the ballot props this year. HOLEE SHYTE! The Lege has lost its damn mind.

133 - Parties control their primaries without regard to law. It becomes a Trump coronation.
134 - Equal percentage from all LDs for voter referendums to get on ballot? So much for referendum.
135 - War Powers Act for emergency declarations that the lege can end it with 33% vote, not 50%+1
136 - >100 days before election, one person can sue to prevent referendum from getting on ballot
137 - Ends retention election for judges for all time, including 2024 election. Two judges up for retention voted for the 186 abortion ban
138 - Makes constitutional sub-minimum wage for service and tipped/gratuity employees, which is practically anyone given a tip (taxi drivers, maids in hotels, even people working at fast food restaurants).

139 - Codifies Roe V. Wade as a human right
140 - levels signature requirement for getting people/referendum on ballots
312 - property tax refund on residents in cities where police don't enforce anti-homeless laws.
313 - life imprisonment for child sex traffickers (yet those who work in this know most trafficked children are brought in by other trafficked children because of threats of violence if they don't find fresh meat for trafficking bosses and clients. I can't justify locking up a 13 year old trafficking victim that got another into sex trafficking because they were threatened with or received violence if they didn't).
315 - if voter passed ballot measure costs more than $500K over five years, lege can vote to not fund it, thus killing it.

Underlined are proposed amendments to the AZ Constitution.

MAGAt Unchained on the ballot in Arizona.

BTW, if I were still in AZ, the boldfaced are the once I would consider voting for. The boldfaced and highlighted I WOULD vote for without hesitation. But I also had a simply rule: If the Lege wanted it, I was immediately against it.
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Look at the ballot props this year. HOLEE SHYTE! The Lege has lost its damn mind. (Original Post) AZLD4Candidate Oct 7 OP
I'd vote No for all of them except 139 which is a Yes from me LonePirate Oct 7 #1
Yeah, the MAGA legislature is trying to flex their muscles AZSkiffyGeek Oct 7 #2
I'm voting NO on anything initiated by the Legislature. marybourg Oct 12 #3

AZSkiffyGeek

(12,628 posts)
2. Yeah, the MAGA legislature is trying to flex their muscles
Mon Oct 7, 2024, 11:09 AM
Oct 7

I'm a yes on the same two, although I expect the child trafficking and border bills will pass as well.

marybourg

(13,198 posts)
3. I'm voting NO on anything initiated by the Legislature.
Sat Oct 12, 2024, 09:12 PM
Oct 12

I don’t agree with them on anything. Haven’t for years.

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