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Arizona Free Enterprise Club FINAL 2020 General Election Endorsements
We are exactly one week from election day, and with that a reminder of the Club’s 2020 general election endorsements. Our list is similar to our previous release, except the Club does want to highlight that several Judges are being targeted by the left for their...
Welcome to the Twilight Zone: Covid Stimulus Checks to Criminals
When Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act last spring, the goal was to help families and businesses struggling with layoffs, closures and hardships caused by the pandemic. Yet to no one’s surprise, the multi-trillion-dollar...
Arizona Free Enterprise Announces 2020 General Election Endorsements
The Arizona Free Enterprise Club has released its final slate of endorsements for the 2020 general election cycle. The endorsed candidates represent individuals who align with the organization’s principles and key policy goals. Club President Scot Mussi...
Latest Poll Finds Support for Prop 208 Tax Hike Dropping Below 50 Percent
Phoenix—Today the Arizona Free Enterprise Club released our latest survey results for Proposition 208, a statewide ballot measure that would nearly double the state income tax to increase funding for public education. The Data Orbital poll shows that support for the...
Liberal Out of State Group is Using PPP Loans to Fund Prop 208 Tax Hike Campaign
Earlier this Summer campaign finance reports revealed that Proposition 208, the Largest Tax Increase in Arizona History, was being bankrolled by the liberal Oregon-based Stand for Children. This out of state special interest group pumped more than $4 Million into the...
County Recorder Adrian Fontes Disrespects the Law and Voters
Adrian Fontes won his seat for county recorder in 2016 by capitalizing on an underprepared Presidential Preference election at which no one anticipated the wave of turnout. Despite Fontes’ unrelenting criticism of then long-time recorder Helen Purcell and lofty...
Slate of Liberal Democrats Are Posing as Moderates in Swing Legislative Districts
Democrats are hoping to convince voters that a slate of candidates running in swing legislative districts in Arizona are harmless pragmatic “moderates” to gain legislative majorities in the state house and senate. Despite parroting middle of the road messaging, these...
Prop 208 Tax Hike Punishes Small Businesses and Neglects Families in Need
In a few months the Arizona residents will have the opportunity to vote on Proposition 208, a measure funded by out of state labor unions and special interest groups to impose a $1 Billion income tax increase on small businesses and entrepreneurs in the middle of a...
COVID-19 Provides Opportunity to Revolutionize Education
All across the country, K-12 educators and staff are holding families hostage and threatening to strike (again) if schools open up in the Fall for kids to learn in person. They are claiming that it is not safe enough to teach, despite the fact that many...
Arizona Corporation Commission Defies Will of the Voters With Green New Deal Proposal
While so many Arizonans are preoccupied with COVID-19 numbers, Presidential bids, a destabilized economy and an uncertain school year, the already obscure Arizona Corporation Commission has quietly released their plan to impose California-style energy mandates in...
Parents Should #WalkAway From Public Schools Unwilling to Educate AZ Kids
The would-be school year is fast approaching and thousands of parents across Arizona are panicking. How will their children learn this year? When will they have a physical place to go? Will parents be able to return to work? Will they have to...
Misleading Ballot Initiatives Should Be Thrown Out By The Courts
There is an obvious reason why our state is constantly being preyed upon by out of state interests, pushing radical ideas every cycle at the ballot box as “citizen initiatives”. Arizona has exceptionally low standards for qualification compared to other...