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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey talks to reporters at the White House in Washington on April 3, 2019. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Arizona ’s new school choice law went into effect on Sept. 30 after a bid to repeal it fell short as supporters failed to gather enough signatures.
Arizona officials informed the Save Our Schools Arizona PAC that the referendum on the matter “will not qualify for the 2024 General Election Ballot,” according to a Sept. 30 statement from Arizona Secretary Katie Hobbs, a Democrat.
The political action committee needed to gather 118,823 signatures.
That threshold will not be met, Hobbs said.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican who signed the law over the summer, said: “Public education is about educating the public. Now every child in Arizona will have access to a high-quality school of their choice.”
Save Our Schools had said that they handed in more than 141,000 signatures.
Secretaries of state perform a review of signatures for referendum proposals to verify which ones meet certain standards.
Save Our Schools, responding to Hobbs’ announcement, said that the discrepancy stemmed from several factors, including “the incredibly high volume of returns of petitions in the final week, days, and hours of the campaign.”The development was a “devastating blow,” the committee said.The group blamed Ducey.“We are confident we would have succeeded had Governor Ducey not waited 10 days to sign the bill, robbing Arizona voters of crucial time to sign the petition,” it said.The Goldwater Institute, which had questioned some of the signatures, said that the failure to get the proposal on the 2024 ballot was “a vindication of parents who are clamoring for choice in education.” The Law House Bill 2853, the law, expands a school choice program called the Empowerment Scholarship Account Program.The law removes restrictions for each student to receive $7,000 annually for education. The […]
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Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
To those who have the means, we ask that you please donate. We have options available now, but there is no telling when those options will cancel us. We have our GivingFuel page. There have been many who have been canceled by PayPal, but for now it’s still an option. Your generosity is what keeps these sites running and allows us to get the truth to the masses. We’ve had great success in growing but we know we can do more with your assistance.
Thank you, and God Bless!
JD Rucker