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Street Heat: Progressives Protest Against Food Stamp Cuts Nationwide

For weeks, Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) has been turning up the heat on Congressional Democrats in an effort to stop the proposed $20 billion in cuts to the Supplemental … Continue reading →

June 19, 2013 · 6 Comments

Sinema Touts Bipartisanship: Is It Really a Good Strategy for Democrats? (video)

Bipartisanship is a popular buzz word in some political circles. Republicans use the call for “bipartisan solutions” to strong-arm Democrats into voting for bad ideas (like increased militarization and drone … Continue reading →

June 17, 2013 · 6 Comments

Misplaced Congressional Priorities: Pork for the Pentagon but Not for Children

During the Bush II Era, excessive deficit spending was no big deal for Republicans. Congressional Republicans like Mitch McConnell, Jon Kyl, John McCain, Jeff Flake, Lindsay Graham, and even current … Continue reading →

June 12, 2013 · 9 Comments

Sinema too Republican? Votes to Reduce Banking Regulations

Citigroup knows how to schmooze Congress– and how to write legislation, apparently. Ever since the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act reinstated some regulations on Wall Street gamblers … Continue reading →

May 29, 2013 · 4 Comments

Ronstadt Transit Center: Community Space or Capitalist Dream?

The Downtown Tucson Partnership— like other business groups before them– has designs on the Ronstadt Transit Center (RTC). Since the early Feb. 5 City Council vote approving a 60-90 day … Continue reading →

May 17, 2013 · 2 Comments

PDA to Congress: ‘Austerity Is Not an Option’

Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) members visited more than 200 Congressional offices nationwide on May 15 with an urgent message for their representatives: “Austerity is not an option.” Over the … Continue reading →

May 16, 2013

Ronstadt Transit Center: City, Developers Ponder Proverbial Political Football (video)

Anyone who has lived in Tucson long enough knows that the vitality of downtown has ebbed and flowed with the winds of politics and the fortunes of capitalism. Thanks to … Continue reading →

April 10, 2013 · 10 Comments

Occupy encampment in Armory Park– before it was cleared out in the middle of the night by Tucson Police.

Protesting cuts to education

Protesters hand deliver symbolic big check from corporate American to McCain.

John Nichols of ‘The Nation’ addressed progressives and unionists at a Tucson event.

Rev. Ron Phares and Pamela Powers Hannley

Jim and I were part of a contingent of Unitarian Universalists who came up from Tucson. Here I am with Rev. Ron Phares from the Mountain Vista UU Church in my district. (Jim is photobombing us.)

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley with Red For Ed

The Oberlin Rescuers outside of the Cuyahoga County Jail.

I have a background in research. Help me build Tucson’s tech industry and grow our own local businesses.

Arizonans for New Economy co-directors Jim Hannley and Pamela Powers Hannley with UA Tech Park VP Bruce Wright.

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PDA members, including Advisory Board Chair Mimi Kennedy, protested food stamp cuts in front of Congressman Henry Waxman’s office.

Congressman Ron Barber and Pamela Powers Hannley at Cyclovia

The Living Economy event was very informative; we had a great time hob-nobbing. My husband Jim is a small business owner and a member of Local First Arizona. I have owned two small businesses in the past– Powers/Queen Associates and Wind Dancer Design. We support Local First Arizona and buying/investing locally. We believe that supporting local small businesses with low-interest loans through a public/private partnership between a public bank and community banks and credit unions is the sustainable route to improving our local economy. Trickle down economics doesn’t work; it’s time for new ideas.

This is a broken sink in the Ladies’ Room at the Arizona State Building in downtown Tucson. One of the elevators also was broken. It’s time to fix Arizona government.

A homeless man sleeps in the shadow of corporate America.

Despite the sweltering heat, Jim and I had a great time at the Labor Day Picnic. We collected a lot of Clean Elections $5 donations and signatures. Here I am with LD9 chair Michael Dues.

Jobs with Justice marching with Occupy Tucson in support of postal workers.

Pamela Powers Hannley, Progressive Democrat for Arizona House, LD9

Protesting anti-woman laws at the Arizona state capitol.

Visiting with PALF chairman Fred Yamashita at the 2016 Labor Day Picnic.

In the 1980s, the Tucson Weekly called Tucson the “Baked Apple”.

Giving the LD9 update at the June meeting. What a great crowd!

We often hear that corporations need migrant workers because Americans “don’t want to do these jobs.” When I hear this statement, I picture farm workers picking vegetables. Recently, I toured two dairies and an animal feed packing plant in Pinal County. The photo above from the Zinke Dairy shows a giant cow milking carousel. Nine migrant workers milk 4000 cows three times a day at this dairy. Legislators watched the two men pictured here– working at a brisk pace– bend over and pick up, lift, and attach large electronic suction cups to the cows as they ride the carousel around the giant facility. This level of automation is the wave of the future for industrial jobs.

We are the 99%.

There have been many lively debates in the Arizona House in 2018. This team of House Democrats fought for consumer protections and fought against risky financial deals in a “regulatory sandbox.” (Pictured are Reps. Mitzi Epstein, Kelli Butler, Athena Salman, Pamela Powers Hannley, Ken Clark and Isela Blanc.)

Rep. Sally Ann Gonzales and I were interviewed by NBC at the Phoenix rally.

It was truly a honor to meet Nevada State Senator Patricia Spearman (center) in October and to confer with her regarding our efforts to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in Arizona. Spearman led the successful Nevada efforts to ratify the ERA in 2017. Here we are with activist and NOW leader Dainne Post after the ERA workshop at the We the People Conference in Phoenix. There are a lot of Arizona women who are ready to make history in 2018. Watch my blog here and my Facebook page here for ERA updates.

PDA Tucson Coordinator Jim Hannley speaks against both the crowd management ordinance and the urban camping ban at the City Council meeting.

Martin Luther King, Jr. march.

Governor Ducey had proposed increasing prison beds and funding, while cutting education. Protesters took issue with that short-sighted idea.

Safe Park, downtown Tucson

#RedForEd teachers and supporters in the Arizona House Gallery, 2018.

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley with members of the Tucson Chapter of NOW on opening day at the Arizona Legislature, 2018.

Ironically, I posted this blog post on the anniversary of this election on June 19. 1970ish.

Protesting migrant deaths in the Arizona desert.

A giant poet’s head made up of stainless steel letters marks the stop near the UA Poetry Center.

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The Tucson Progressive: Pamela J. Powers

I stand on the side of Love. I believe in kindness to all creatures on Earth and the inherent self-worth of all individuals–not just people who agree with me or look like me.

Widespread economic and social injustice prompted me to become a candidate for the Arizona House, representing Legislative District 9 in the 2016 election.

My platform focused on economic reforms to grow Arizona’s economy, establish a state-based public bank, fix our infrastructure, fully fund public education, grow local small businesses and community banks, and put people back to work at good-paying jobs.

In the Arizona House, I was a strong voice for fiscal responsibility a moratorium on corporate tax breaks until the schools were fully funded, increased cash assistance to the poor, expansion of maternal healthcare benefits, equal rights, choice, unions, education at all levels and protecting our water supply.

After three terms, I retired from the Arizona Legislature in January 2023 but will continue to blog and produce my podcast “A View from the Left Side.”

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Category Archives: fiscal responsibility

Street Heat: Progressives Protest Against Food Stamp Cuts Nationwide

Sinema Touts Bipartisanship: Is It Really a Good Strategy for Democrats? (video)

Misplaced Congressional Priorities: Pork for the Pentagon but Not for Children

Sinema too Republican? Votes to Reduce Banking Regulations

Ronstadt Transit Center: Community Space or Capitalist Dream?

PDA to Congress: ‘Austerity Is Not an Option’

Ronstadt Transit Center: City, Developers Ponder Proverbial Political Football (video)

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