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Kate Brophy McGee
Kate Brophy McGee (born in Arizona) is an American politician currently serving on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, representing the 3rd district. She previously served as a Republican member of the Arizona Senate representing District 28 from 2017 to 2021. Brophy McGee previously served in the Arizona House of Representatives. Education Brophy McGee graduated from the University of Arizona. Political positions Kate Brophy McGee has described herself as a moderate Republican. After winning re-election in 2018, she emphasized that her political agenda was "moderation." McGee has a 68% lifetime conservative rating from the American Conservative Union, a 54% rating from the fiscally conservative Arizona Chapter of Americans for Prosperity and she has an 86% rating from the socially conservative group, Center for Arizona Policy; she had a 53% grade in 2018 from the NRA Political Victory Fund (NRA). Planned Parenthood, which supports abortion rights, gave her a 50% ratin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maricopa County Board Of Supervisors
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors is the governing body of Maricopa County, a county of over four million in Arizona. The five supervisors are each elected from single-member districts to serve four-year terms. Partisan primary, Primary elections and general elections take place in years divisible by four. Vacancies are filled by appointment by remaining members of the board; a member of the same party of the departing member must be selected. The Board usually meets two Wednesdays every month in the Supervisor's Auditorium at the Maricopa County Complex in Phoenix, Arizona. Members of the public are invited to attend these meetings. , Thomas Galvin is the board's chairman. District information *Supervisoral districts as of Jan 1, 2024 redistricting: *Current term (Jan 1, 2025 - Dec 31, 2028): Past members 2000 Elections: 2004 Elections: 2008 Elections: 2012 Elections: 2016 Elections: 2020 Elections: Departments Maricopa County Attorney's Office [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Americans For Prosperity
Americans for Prosperity (AFP), founded in 2004, is a Libertarian conservatism, libertarian conservative political advocacy group in the United States affiliated with brothers Charles Koch and the late David Koch. As the Koch family's primary political advocacy group, it has been viewed as one of the most influential American conservative organizations. After the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama, AFP helped transform the Tea Party movement into a political force. It organized significant opposition to Obama administration initiatives such as global warming regulation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the expansion of Medicaid, and economic stimulus. It helped turn back emissions trading, cap and trade, the major environmental proposal of Obama's first term. AFP advocated for limits on the collective bargaining rights of Public-sector trade unions in the United States, public-sector trade unions and for right-to-work laws and opposed raising the federal mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Wheeler
Bruce Wheeler (born October 14, 1948) is an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party who formerly served in the Arizona House of Representatives until 2017. Wheeler previously served in the State House from January 1975 until January 1977. He also served on the Tucson City Council from 1987 to 1995. In June 2017, Wheeler announced his candidacy for the U.S. House to represent Arizona's 2nd congressional district in the 2018 U.S. federal midterm election. Education Wheeler earned his BA in international relations from the University of Arizona and his MBA from the University of Phoenix. Elections * 1974: Wheeler was one of the top two candidates in the District 13 1974 Democratic Primary and took the second seat in the November 5, 1974 General election with 11,180 votes against Republican nominees Stephen Beal and Seth Linthicum. * 1976: Dunn and Wheeler won the 1976 Democratic Primary; Dunn was re-elected, but Wheeler lost the second seat in the November 2, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Farley
Steve Farley (born December 24, 1962) is an American politician, artist, and graphic designer who previously served as a State Senator from Arizona, including serving in the capacity of assistant minority leader. He also served previously in the Arizona House of Representatives, serving as assistant minority leader there as well. He is a member of the Democratic Party. On June 5, 2017, Farley announced he was running for Governor of Arizona in the 2018 election, challenging Republican incumbent Governor Doug Ducey, but lost in the Democratic primary. He unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic nomination in the 2019 Tucson mayoral election. Early life and education Farley was born in Upland, California to two public school teachers. As a teenager, Farley heard stories of how administrators at his mother's school micromanaged teachers and exerted unnecessarily strong control over classrooms, so he went to the local papers attempting to expose the injustice in his school system. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Reeve
Amanda A. Reeve is an American politician. She was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives The Arizona House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arizona Legislature, the state legislature (United States), state legislature of the U.S. state of Arizona. The upper house is the Arizona Senate, Senate. The House convenes in the le ... representing District 6, serving from 2010 to 2013. Reeve is a member of the Republican party. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Reeve, Amanda Living people Republican Party members of the Arizona House of Representatives Politicians from Phoenix, Arizona Women state legislators in Arizona 21st-century American women politicians Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century members of the Arizona State Legislature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Meyer (Arizona Politician)
Eric Meyer (born 1961) is a former member of the Arizona House of Representatives from the 4th legislative district. He previously served in the legislature for four consecutive two-year terms following his first election in 2008 and served as Minority Leader from 2014 until 2016. Prior to becoming politically active, Meyer was Director of Emergency Medicine at Providence Medical Center in Portland, Oregon. Early life and education Eric Meyer was born in August, 1961. Meyer attended public schools in Scottsdale, AZ starting at Cocopah Elementary School and graduating high school in 1979 from Chaparral High School,. He earned a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Southern California. Discovering his passion for medicine while working at a neighborhood clinic, he returned to Arizona to pursue his medical degree from University of Arizona Medical School. Eric met his wife Sarah Snell while attending medical school and both earned their Medical Doctorates i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is a Centre-left politics, center-left political parties in the United States, political party in the United States. One of the Major party, major parties of the U.S., it was founded in 1828, making it the world's oldest active political party. Its main rival since the 1850s has been the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, and the two have since dominated American politics. The Democratic Party was founded in 1828 from remnants of the Democratic-Republican Party. Senator Martin Van Buren played the central role in building the coalition of state organizations which formed the new party as a vehicle to help elect Andrew Jackson as president that year. It initially supported Jacksonian democracy, agrarianism, and Manifest destiny, geographical expansionism, while opposing Bank War, a national bank and high Tariff, tariffs. Democrats won six of the eight presidential elections from 1828 to 1856, losing twice to the Whig Party (United States) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crisis Pregnancy Centers
A crisis pregnancy center (CPC), sometimes called a pregnancy resource center (PRC) or a pro-life pregnancy center, is a type of nonprofit organization established by anti-abortion groups primarily to persuade pregnant women not to have an abortion. In the United States, there are an estimated 2,500 to 4,000 CPCs that qualify as medical clinics that may also provide pregnancy testing, sonograms, and other services; many others operate without medical licensing under varying degrees of regulation. For comparison, there were 807 abortion clinics in the United States as of 2020. Hundreds more CPCs operate outside of the U.S., including in Canada, Latin America, Africa, and Europe. CPCs have frequently been found to disseminate false medical information about the supposed physical and mental health risks of abortion; they sometimes promulgate misinformation about the effectiveness of condoms and prevention of sexually transmitted infections. CPCs are sometimes called fake ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conversion Therapy Ban
Conversion therapy is the pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change an individual's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to align with heterosexual and cisgender norms. Methods that have been used to this end include forms of brain surgery, surgical or chemical (hormonal) castration, aversion therapy treatments such as electric shocks, nausea-inducing drugs, hypnosis, counseling, spiritual interventions, visualization, psychoanalysis, and arousal reconditioning. There is a scientific consensus that conversion therapy is ineffective at changing a person's sexual orientation or gender identity and that it frequently causes significant long-term psychological harm. An increasing number of jurisdictions around the world have passed laws against conversion therapy. Historically, conversion therapy was the treatment of choice for individuals who disclosed same-sex attractions or exhibited gender nonconformity, which were formerly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
School Voucher
A school voucher, also called an education voucher in a voucher system, is a certificate of government funding for students at schools chosen by themselves or their parents. Funding is usually for a particular year, term, or semester. In some countries, states, or local jurisdictions, the voucher can be used to cover or reimburse home schooling expenses. In some countries, vouchers only exist for tuition at private schools. History When France lost the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871) many blamed the loss on its inferior military education system. Following this defeat, the French Assembly proposed a voucher that they hoped would improve schools by allowing students to seek out the best. This proposal never moved forward due to the reluctance of the French to subsidize religious education. Despite its failure, this proposal closely resembles voucher systems proposed or used in many modern countries. The oldest extant school voucher programs in the United States are the Town Tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is an American environmental organization with chapters in all 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico. The club was founded in 1892, in San Francisco, by preservationist John Muir. A product of the Progressivism in the United States, progressive movement, it was one of the first large-scale environmental preservation organizations in the world. It has lobbied for policies to promote sustainable energy and mitigating global warming, as well as Beyond Coal, opposing the use of coal, hydropower, and nuclear power. Its political endorsements generally favor Modern liberalism in the United States, liberal and progressive candidates in elections. In addition to political advocacy, the Sierra Club organizes outdoor recreation activities, and has historically been a notable organization for mountaineering and rock climbing in the United States. Members of the Sierra Club pioneered the Yosemite Decimal System of climbing, and were responsible fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NARAL Pro-Choice America
Reproductive Freedom for All, formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America and commonly known as simply NARAL ( ), is a non-profit 501(c)(4) organization in the United States that engages in lobbying, politics, political action, and advocacy efforts to oppose restrictions on abortion, to expand access to legal abortion and birth control, and to support paid parental leave and protection against pregnancy discrimination. NARAL is associated with the NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) organization, and the NARAL Pro-Choice America PAC, a political action committee. Founded in 1969, NARAL is the oldest extant abortion rights advocacy group in the United States, though it was predated by a few now-defunct groups, including the Society for Humane Abortion and the Association for the Study of Abortion. History The precursor to NARAL was the Association to Repeal Abortion Laws (ARAL). ARAL was an expansion of the "Army of Three" which was made up of Abortion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
