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Arizona Legislative Alerts
AZ Legislative Alert: Deadlines Loom!
AZ Legislative Alert: Whew! Almost Over!
AZ Legislative Alert: You Call It! Election Issue
AZ Legislative Alert: Countdown I
AZ Legislative Alert: Countdown II
AZ Legislative Alert: Countdown III
AZ Legislative Alert: Surge, Wait Wait
The AZ Legislative Alert – Waiting….
The AZ Legislative Alert – Don’t Forget the Border!
The AZ Legislative Alert – STOP: Messing With the Post Office
The AZ Legislative Alert – Presidential Poll Updates
The AZ Legislative Alert – On to November
The AZ Legislative Alert – AZ Primaries, Poll Updates, and More
The AZ Legislative Alert – Will the Polls Be Wrong Again?
The AZ Legislative Alert – Masks Matter! 6/18
The AZ Legislative Alert – Langston Hughes: Words Worth Hearing 6/10
The AZ Legislative Alert – Remember His Name: Mr. George Floyd
The AZ Legislative Alert – Finally, They Adjourned. 5/27
The AZ Legislative Alert – Back in Session? 5/17
The AZ Legislative Alert – Opening Up 5/13
The AZ Legislative Alert – Protect Arizona Elections (4/20/2020)
The AZ Legislative Alert – The Legislative Digest: Where the Legislature Left Off…
The AZ Legislative Alert – Corona Virus Part II
The AZ Legislative Alert – Corona Virus Part I
The AZ Legislative Alert – Go…No Go?
The AZ Legislative Alert – She Persists; So Do We
The AZ Legislative Alert – Half Way Through the Session
The AZ Legislative Alert – Primaries and Update on AZ Bills
The AZ Legislative Alert – Bills Bills Bills… 02/15
The AZ Legislative Alert – Update on Arizona Legislation 02/08
The AZ Legislative Alert – Impeachment and Update on Arizona Legislation
The AZ Legislative Alert – State and National Update Jan. 21
The AZ Legislative Alert – Ready, Set, GO: legislature back in session
The AZ Legislative Alert –
the democratic Primaries
The AZ Legislative Alert – Rules of Impeachment
The AZ Legislative Alert – Initiatives & Referenda, 2020
The AZ Legislative Alert – Expect WHAT in 2020? Update on Arizona
The AZ Legislative Alert – Special Topic: Can DJT Run Again if Impeached?
The AZ Legislative Alert – Special Topic: Health Care (Update on Democratic Candidates)
The AZ Legislative Alert – Special Topic: How to Fix the Electoral College?
The AZ Legislative Alert – Special Topic: Guns Guns Guns Guns
The AZ Legislative Alert – What Is “Medicare for All”? Special Topic!!
The AZ Legislative Alert – What’s a Wealth Tax? Special Topic!!
The AZ Legislative Alert – 2019 Wrapup
The AZ Legislative Alert – Adjourned!
The AZ Legislative Alert – Update: House OKs Budget
The AZ Legislative Alert – Update: Week of May 18
The AZ Legislative Alert – No End in Sight? Week of May 11
The AZ Legislative Alert – Not Over Yet: Week of May 5
The AZ Legislative Alert – Update: Week of April 28
The AZ Legislative Alert – Update: Week of April 22
The AZ Legislative Alert – A Time to Call: Week of April 15
The AZ Legislative Alert – Update: Week of April 8
The AZ Legislative Alert – Politics Update and “Outlaw Dirty Money is BAAAAK!
The AZ Legislative Alert – All Eyes Look East! The Mueller Report
The AZ Legislative Alert – The Best and the Worst @ March 17
The AZ Legislative Alert – The Best and the Worst @ March 10
The AZ Legislative Alert – Week of March 3
The AZ Legislative Alert – Switch Over Week
The AZ Legislative Alert – Humpty Dumpty Built a Great Wall…
The AZ Legislative Alert – Support the ERA! Feb. 9
The AZ Legislative Alert – Tax Conformity — Veto Needed. Feb. 4
The AZ Legislative Alert – Jan. 28
The AZ Legislative Alert (Jan. 28, print) –
The AZ Legislative Alert – (011919)
The AZ Legislative Alert (print) – (011919)
The AZ Legislative Alert – The Legislature Is Coming! (010819)
The AZ Legislative Alert – What To Expect in the 2019 Legislature? Part III Focus– Economic Justice & Human Rights
The AZ Legislative Alert – What To Expect in the 2019 Legislature? Focus– Education
The AZ Legislative Alert – 11/27/18 Back to Work! Election Update 11/ 27
The AZ Legislative Alert – Just Election Results (Printable PDF)
The Whitaker Appointment: A Puzzle – 11/21/18
The AZ Legislative Alert – 11/16/18 Election Update 11/16
The AZ Legislative Alert – 11/09/18 Election Wrapup (not final)
The AZ Legislative Alert – 11/08/18special Protect the Mueller Investigation
The AZ Legislative Alert – 11/02/18 Last Call —
Voting Ends Tuesday
The AZ Legislative Alert – 09/10/18 Initiatives Pro and Con
The AZ Legislative Alert – 10/30/18 Chesed: An Act of Kindness
The AZ Legislative Alert – 10/23/18 Make a Plan to Vote
The AZ Legislative Alert – 10/18/18 There’s a LOT on my ballot
The AZ Legislative Alert – 10/12/18 Quick Updates
The AZ Legislative Alert – 10/03/18 Keep the Pressure On!
The AZ Legislative Alert – 09/26/18 Calling All Resisters!
The AZ Legislative Alert – 09/24/18 High Alert!
The AZ Legislative Alert – 09/06/18 BIG Action Weekend, Sept. 9
The AZ Legislative Alert – 09/04/18 Now is the Time!
The AZ Legislative Alert – 08/31/18 Seeing Red!
The AZ Legislative Alert – 08/29/18 Who Won? Lineup for Nov. 8
The AZ Legislative Alert – 08/24/18 Time To Vote!
The AZ Legislative Alert – 08/20/18 Invest in Ed is ON! Outlaw Dirty Money Hanging by a Thread
The AZ Legislative Alert – 08/14/18 Election Update Aug.14
The AZ Legislative Alert – 08/06/18 Election Update Aug.6
The AZ Legislative Alert – 07/12/18 No Time for Tired!
The AZ Legislative Alert – 07/02/18 Last Call for Petitions
The AZ Legislative Alert – 06/15/18 Updates: Immigrant Children, Petitions to Sign, & More
The AZ Legislative Alert – 06/11/18 Amber Alert
The AZ Legislative Alert – 06/02/18 Petitions (Again)
The AZ Legislative Alert – 05/11/18 Wrapup: 2018 Social Justice Bills
The AZ Legislative Alert – 04/28/18 Update? Not Really. All About Education
The AZ Legislative Alert – 04/21/18 Needed: A Sustainable Revenue Plan for Public Education
The AZ Legislative Alert – 04/14/18 Update: Guns, Education, & More
The AZ Legislative Alert – 04/07/18 Are They Not Listening? or What?
The AZ Legislative Alert – 04/02/18 Say NO to Repeal and Replace
The AZ Legislative Alert – 03/27/18 Prop 123 Illegal? And Other Updates
The AZ Legislative Alert – 03/17/18 I Stand With the Teachers
The AZ Legislative Alert – 03/10/18 Focus: Gun Safety in Arizona
The AZ Legislative Alert – 03/02/18 Another Round of ‘Bad’ Bills
The AZ Legislative Alert – 02/24/18 Guns: Again and Again and Again
The AZ Legislative Alert – 02/17/18 #Enough
The AZ Legislative Alert – 02/10/18 Priorities…So Many Bills
The AZ Legislative Alert – 02/04/18 Sexual Harassment: Not Acceptable
The AZ Legislative Alert – 02/03/18 House Expels Shooter
The AZ Legislative Alert – 01/28/18 Bills, Bills, Bills… and More
The AZ Legislative Alert – 01/22/18 Marches, Legislative Updates and More
The AZ Legislative Alert – 01/15/18 MLK Reminds Us…
The AZ Legislative Alert – 01/08/18 Opening Day: Focus, Education
The AZ Legislative Alert – 01/01/18 Rally Time!
Purposes of VUU’s Legislative Ministry
- Inform about the activities of the Arizona Legislature including the content of proposed legislation and citizen-initiatives through publication of the “Legislative Alert” and other periodic e-mail publications;
- Educate about proposed legislation by identifying resources (such as web sites), preparing issue papers and offering occasional Forums at VUU
- Advocate support for or opposition to selected legislation, based on its consistency with UU values
- Collaborate with other UU congregations in Arizona as part of UUJAZ (Unitarian Universalist Justice of Arizona advocacy network)
- Build partnerships with other progressive advocacy groups
Issue Papers
- Article V Constitutional Convention? Who Would Want That? – 3/27/2017
- Hobby Lobby, Women’s Rights, and a Slippery Slope To Theocracy
- Redistricting the U.S. Congress: What’s the Issue? – 12/1/2014
- Citizens’ United Changed Almost Everything – 12/1/2014
- Amending Arizona’s Religious Freedom and Restoration Act – 3/2/2014
- A Constitutional Convention? Who Would Want That? – 9/1/2014
- Wrapping up the 2015 Arizona Legislation– a compendium of what passed and what failed in 2015
- “Is Income Inequality Ending the American Dream?” Powerpoint presented October 26, 2014
- “Is Income Inequality Ending the American Dream?” September 28, 2014
Join us for our annual UU Day at the Legislature, every President’s Day each year. Contact: legislativeadvocacy@vuu.org for more information and to sign up.
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All opinions expressed within the Legislative Watch or issue papers are those of the author, not the Valley Unitarian Universalist Congregation or UUJAZ. VUU does not support or oppose political candidates.