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Arizona Senate Republicans Pass Bill to Prevent Climate Action (climate.law.columbia.edu)
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[–] LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago

I'm going to simultaneously agree and disagree with you on this one - they do want to destroy the ability to plan and build walkable livable cities, and to prevent their constituents from building community ties with each other. The expectation they have, imo, is that this will be used to hamstring the efforts of people looking to make Arizona livable into the future.

But they absolutely don't expect or want this bill to weaken their own grasp on legislative power in the state. Concerted grassroots efforts to use the (admittedly hamfisted) language in this bill to weaken conservative turnout, while absolutely not something I would normally advocate, seems like a way to involve the voting bloc they intended to protect from effects in realizing how truly stupid this bill is. I could readily see voting rights groups or other progressive orgs in the state finding opportunities to provide transportation to the polls and ways to include reasons to not reward the people who voted this into effect.