Shelly Baker

We The People: Speaker of the House

As you may or may not have heard, John Boehner announced that he would resign as Speaker of the House at the end of October and it was speculated that Kevin McCarthy was favored to take over the position. However, McCarthy announced that he was not going to seek the position, throwing the mainstream media into a frenzy of speculation …

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The Electoral College explained

On November 6th when you cast your vote for President and Vice President, you will not actually be voting for the person listed as the candidate for that office, you will be voting for the list of ‘electors’ for that office.  In Arizona the list consists of 11 names.  The 11 electors who win the Arizona vote will be given …

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Today’s election is not a primary

Today is Arizona’s Presidential Preference Election (called the PPE by election officials). This is NOT the primary election. The primary election will take place on August 28th and will be open to ALL properly registered voters. The election being held today is a preference election and is strictly for Republicans and Green Party voters. The purpose of this election is …

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Senator Kyl to retire

Sen. Jon Kyl is set to announce that he will not seek another term in office. Kyl was first elected to Congress in 1986 and then to the Senate in 1994.

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Birther Bill

There has been a lot of talk about creating a bill that aims to take away the automatic citizenship for children born to non-citizen parents. It now appears that the language to be used in the bill has been drafted as follows: BILL (a) A person is a citizen of the state of [Arizona] if: (1) the person is born …

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