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I just got this text, claiming this Republican voter guide represents "independent" candidates. I am so sick of their lies.

Our Maricopa Community Colleges are an economic engine for Arizona. We’re training our future workforce and improving our students’ lives.

We must not elect people with extreme views to the MCCCD Governing Board. Please look at this website to learn more about their destructive plans. Their entire ticket is Turning Point endorsed - another huge red flag.

https://protectcommunitycolleges.com/

Instead, vote for Judy Schwiebert, Bill Sandweg and Donna Davis. They will provide steady leadership to strengthen our already excellent colleges!

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Dysart High School student, Cali Overs, is calling on the district to remove Mayor Kevin Sartor as Safety Coordinator after he admitted he has no student safety plan for the ICE detention center opening less than a mile from campus, failed to conduct a lockdown drill until April 27 — nearly the entire school year — and never warned students about a hazardous chemical storage facility less than a mile away that poses mass casualty risk. Two actions: email Dysart's governing board and superintendent to demand his removal, and sign the petition for a 3-mile safety buffer zone between ICE detention centers and K-12 schools.

• Email Dysart governing board and superintendent: super@dysart.org
• Sign the 3-mile buffer zone petition: www.3milebuffer.com
• More Info: https://www.facebook.com/groups/969035423187895/posts/26608856685445750/

Early voting opens Oct 7, so this is a good moment to look at the four measures the Legislature put on the ballot. Their titles don't tell you much so Save Our Schools Arizona wrote up what they do and recommends a NO on all four.

• Prop 320: districts in the largest counties, and any district with 7,500+ students, would have to spend at least 60% of their operating budget on "direct instruction," which the measure doesn't define. Miss it and the district loses Classroom Site Fund money, starting at 25% and rising each year. SOSAZ notes that money pays for teacher salaries and performance pay
• Prop 318: students would have to use sports teams, bathrooms and locker rooms matching the sex on their birth certificate. SOSAZ says it would also open schools and rec leagues to lawsuits
• Prop 144: writes a voter ID requirement for in-person and mail ballots into the state constitution. SOSAZ reads it as a copy of your ID in every mail ballot envelope, and says the utility bill and bank statement options would go away
• Prop 142: bars public schools, agencies and employers from keeping diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies

Source: https://sosaz.substack.com/p/props-101-the-bad-and-the-ugly

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Via @peccary_not_pig on IG

BREAKING: This morning masked federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security entered private land in Lochiel, Arizona to halt protesters from protecting the grandmother cottonwood tree-sit that has halted border wall construction for more than two months. The tree sit was dismantled and the grandmother tree was destroyed.

Contractors are currently constructing double border walls across the San Rafael Valley, one of the last wildlife corridors from transboundary wildlife populations of jaguars, ocelots, black bears between the Sky Islands of Mexico and the United States.