Arizona’s GOP just introduced a $15 billion state budget made for corporations, the radical right, and the wealthy, including:

- $500 M for a border wall
- $17 M increase to private prisons
- $1 M for special ballot paper
- $2 M to pack Court of Appeals with 6 more judges… Other expenditures proposed by GOP:

- $2.8 M for freedom schools
- $15M for Pinal County (aka driest county in AZ) to dig more water wells
- $20 M to buy Dept. of Public Safety a new helicopter and replace 275 vehicles
- Remove $13 M from Pima and Maricopa Community Colleges

Got in an Uber yesterday.

The driver, Mrs. C., was an Arizona science teacher who has been in the classroom for 33 years. 🧑🏽‍🏫🏫

Here are quotes I typed as she told me about her day job:

“I’m in the trenches every day. It’s not enough to get by- so I Uber at night.” 🚙 On buying classroom supplies 📝 out-of pocket:

“We do it innately. We just do what needs to be done. We can’t wait for the funding or the donation drive.”

I’ve been on phone calls all day gauging the COVID-19 epidemic in Arizona. Here’s the reality: the virus is literally mutating every second. Arizona counties don’t have adequate test kits, we don’t have enough cotton swabs for testing, tents will be erected at hospitals and clinics as soon as next week, face masks, gloves, and robes for first-responders and medical providers are almost non-existent.