#HeatKills
🧵- For weeks now I've been poking the MEO to find out how many people have died from heat so far in Maricopa County + prodding
@Maricopahealth
about weekly reports that are supposed to start in May. Here's the breaking news: TWICE as many deaths so far compared to '23.
In addition to being sanctioned, I hope there are Arizona Bar Complaints against all attorneys who created/took part in the circus created by Lake, Hamadeh, Finchem & others. Nearly $700K in fees sought over Kari Lake election challenge
If this vile woman knew anything about this issue, she’d know we have a surge of elderly being priced out of housing, surging eviction rates & that housing 1st models lead to better outcomes for all, vs. lock ‘em up mentality. She is an opportunistic POS who doesn’t care.
As we roll into tonight with Kris Mayes leading by 732 votes, I am crossing my fingers & toes for sanity to prevail. Though we didn’t have a huge, multimillion $ war chest like other candidates, Kris & our team worked our asses off & ran a strong campaign IMHO. Send good juju!!!
.
@krismayes
currently leading by 14,907 votes as we wait for the big Maricopa dump!!! Put all of your positive energy into the universe for her and our team!!!
Meanwhile in Australia… “There have been just under 3,000 coronavirus deaths in Australia since the pandemic began.” See this,
@dougducey
? Australia Population: 25.69 million.
#Arizona
Covid deaths = 25,502. Arizona Population: 7.279 million. We’ve had 22k+ more deaths! WTF.
Hey
#AZmedia
- if anyone is doing a story on the UNSUSTAINABLE rental market in
#Phoenix
, I know single mom w/ 3 young boys who lives in a 2 bedroom apartment & is currently facing a $500/mo. rent INCREASE. This is insane & we NEED legislation immediately to stop this greed.
Bravo to our real leader on AZ’s water crisis,
@AZAGMayes
, while others keep their heads buried in the sand. Arizona's attorney general says the state's water director not following the law via
@12News
#WaterIsLife
As of end of June 2022, only 6 months into the year, 497 unsheltered humans have died or have been killed in Maricopa County. Many of these will be heat deaths, but should serve as a grim reminder of how badly our city, county & state are failing. Also most likely an undercount.
As we (impatiently) await what I hope is the final batch of ballots tabulated & reported for the 2022 AZ midterms, please join me in manifesting a bigger lead as we head to the recount. Arizona needs
@krismayes
. Send your positive energy into the universe now!
#LawyerForThePeople
Official official official CONGRATS to the woman, fellow single mama, fierce & brilliant bad ass who I adore even more than I did before (which says a lot). The past 9 mo. of my life are a blur, but today I can finally breathe. Love you, Attorney General-Elect
@krismayes
. ♥️👊🏼♥️
🧵 I want to tell you about my day. I’ve been doing my own advocacy & lovin’ people up down in the Zone for going on 15 yrs. now. It is brutally hot, & after 2.5 hours I feel like hell. It’s 106 deg F & rising. I even brought shade today. There are so many humans…
#heatkills
I passed out more than 100 tarps this past week (plus tents, thermal blankets, etc.) to hundreds of people living on the streets in downtown Phoenix before the rain, so you can suck a 🌵with your vapid, stupid tweet
@SenatorSinema
.
Wishing all Arizona families health and happiness in 2022! We’ll keep working to beat coronavirus, fuel our state’s economic recovery, and help everyday families get ahead.
Back home (thankfully). Did interviews with
@azfamily
&
@abc15
. Still a bit shaken up that I literally could be in jail right now for trying to protect someone's belongings. Huge thanks to
@GtownJamma
for hooking me up with
@NavaLawAZ
who is representing me in this matter.
It’s 2023! Tomorrow, when our new Arizona Attorney General
@krismayes
walks into the AGO, she’ll be making history as the first MOM AG in AZ history! So proud of her & excited for her leadership. ♥️
Can someone please ask
#DishonestAbe
why his videos are full of footage from Culiacán, Mexico which is almost 800 miles from Phoenix?! Asking for a friend.
There are people in this state that want to take the women of Arizona back to a law crafted when Arizona wasn't even a state, the Civil War was just ending, and women couldn't vote. My office will be vigorously defending a patient's right to choose.
Just got my offer to extend my lease which includes a $150/mo. increase. If I accept it, I will be paying $900/mo. more per month than I paid less than 3 years ago. This place is insane & it’s no wonder we have so many people on the street.
#UnsustainablePhoenix
Please understand this, because it’s very important. If I didn’t have the lawyer & media connections that I do, the privilege that I have, these charges would have absolutely stood & could have severely impacted my life + business…
UPDATE:
@PhoenixPolice
have decided to void yesterday’s criminal citation against activist
@ChampPR
at the homeless encampment after “considering the totality of the circumstances” and deciding it was it was “in the interest of justice.” Details in
@abc15
story below.
🧵 For the past 15 yrs. I’ve done volunteer street outreach in
#Phoenix
with our unsheltered community. I’ve also tracked the rise in our unsheltered folks dying + our alarming number of heat deaths, as well as advocated for common sense SOLUTIONS.
1,843 ballots uploaded from Maricopa. It's a 55/45 split for the D side.
@krismayes
nets 199.
@krismayes
expands lead over
@AbrahamHamadeh
to 850.
3,359 ballots estimate outstanding.
Door 3 ballots are complete.
Tomorrow is an important day for millions of people in
#Arizona
, yet few will be paying attention. It’s also interwoven with (thousands of pro bono) hours of my work/life at this point to try to help protect low-income + vulnerable folks from greed, corruption + heat. 🧵
I’m definitely NOT seeing the majority of people wearing masks in
#Arizona
. Quite the opposite. Typically my daughter & I are the only ones wearing masks most places we go, or def in the minority. And get dirty looks for wearing them too.
#COVID19az
#DuceyLiarLiarPantsOnFire
I was issued a criminal citation for “unauthorized entry into police lines” with a January 13 court date. For trying to protect someone’s belongings. This city and it’s “leadership” should be ashamed of themselves. They tried to grab my phone & camera & put my arm behind my back.
FINALLY!!! After shouting from the rooftops about the lack of hygiene + dignity + need for shade & water for our homeless neighbors in downtown
#Phoenix
,
@mariadmlopez
just sent these pics.
#heatkills
🧵 I’ve been patiently waiting to gloat. (And am also so damn proud of this woman, our new Arizona Attorney General,
@krismayes
.) 9+ months ago, I broke my self-imposed no candidate campaign rule to do all of the PR/comms/design/etc. for her campaign because she’s a 🦄.
Dear rest of the country watching
#Arizona
right now, 1. We don’t have daylight savings. 2. We are an open carry state (which can be terrifying). 3. Protests etc. with mainly white people are handled 100x differently than anything w/ brown & black folks - well-documented racism.
No one in
#Arizona
has been sounding the alarm bells on the rural AZ groundwater crisis for as long or as loudly as La Paz County Supervisor Holly Irwin. She pled w/ Ducey, delivered a petition with hundreds of signatures & hasn’t stopped fighting for all these yrs.
#WaterIsLife
Have I mentioned yet today how elated I am that we’re hours away from
@krismayes
being our new Arizona Attorney General?!?! Eeeee! Court: Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban doesn’t overrule 50 years of more recent regulations
Important ? for
@Supt_Hoffman
. How/why is this allowed/acceptable?!? My kid (sophomore at Sunnyslope) just called to tell me her entire biology class today was an infomercial from Phoenix PD on why everyone should become a cop. I’m not okay with what happened next. 🧵
What happens if you try to protect someone’s stuff who had to go to the hospital. I’m now being told they’re issuing me a citation and I have to stay here. Great job,
@CityofPhoenixAZ
.
I want everyone to think about this.I’m a 5’5, 115 lb. middle aged white woman with privilege. I can call the press & attorneys. If THIS is how Phoenix PD &
@CityofPhoenixAZ
behave when they KNOW they’re under investigation, imagine how much they’re criminalizing the unsheltered.
I rarely say his name because he’s a petulant, lying, unemployed grifter, but let’s hope “justice” includes him having to pay attorneys fees for his never-ending BS lawsuit against our AG Kris Mayes. Not a day goes by where I’m not beyond thankful that she beat this Trumpy worm.
In true City of Phoenix form, I’m at a community meeting for the updated design of the development on the NE corner of Indian School & Central. New proposal is another car-centric, suburban, no life on the street, inner-facing, super block, palm tree heavy development. Shocker.
5) Thanks to
@yassaminansari
, there’s now a city bus parked on 12th Ave.from 9a-5p where people can at least get on, get a bottle of water & cool off. It’s not enough, but it’s something. Lyndon the lovely bus driver told me 35-50 people/day have been using it, so that’s good.
What an absolute crock of shit. In a city with soaring evictions, affordable housing crisis, not enough shelter beds, deadly heat & more than 1k deaths of unsheltered folks in Maricopa County in 2023 alone, this is absolutely abhorrent.Shame on
@CityofPhoenixAZ
& all who voted Y.
Phoenix City Council votes 8-0 to pass a new camping ban to crack down on homelessness. The new ordinance bans camping, sleeping or cooking near schools, daycares, shelters and city parks. Council stressed their intent was to funnel ppl to help, not to criminalize. Story coming
Says guy who:
☑️ Committed voter fraud as teen.
☑️ Stole land from dad & dad had to sue.
☑️ Lied on candidate financial disclosure.
☑️ Got $Mil scam loan from bro.
☑️ Under investigation by military.
☑️ Lied throughout campaign.
☑️ Lost & sued.
A B E I S A G R I F T E R
So far, so good after having too many unmasked
#Phoenix
cops in my face 5 days ago. Have been taking stuff to boost my immune system as a precaution too.
@CityofPhoenixAZ
should have them 😷 mask up when dealing with public.
Just home from downtown. Got a bunch of shoes, hats, t-shirts & shorts from Goodwill + new socks + passed out the 8 tarps & bungee cords. Always end up chatting, checking in, & adding to needs list. A 🧵 to remind everyone about
#humanKIND
.
#homelessness
Steve Bannon’s guest says she has huge teams of volunteers in AZ, MI, and PA to stand guard at ballot drop boxes: “Our people are showing up and gathering around boxes and shutting this stuff down.” Also says taking pics of cars and tracking them if they think they are “mules.”
This is Roberto whose stuff I protected on Mon. (& was technically arrested for). He’s had all of his belongings thrown away 4 times! When he went to the hospital I promised him I’d protect his stuff from being tossed, & am happy I was able to keep that promise.
My friend Allen came to help me. I met Allen last year when I was helping with COVID testing up in Windowrock. He is a former inmate, former addict & 10+ years sober. I’m telling you this because it’s important to remember to give/help without judgment. So much stems from trauma.
I am officially caught up on laundry & house chores since not having to hit refresh too many times a day. Overdue haircut is next. Still as elated/relieved/excited about this as I was last Mon. night! KM will be a stellar AG.
We lost our sweet & gentle family member last night. He has been sick and it was time. He had a long, happy dog life and there’s a huge void in our house + hearts. RIP, Max.
2) Sadly where I was set up today, a guy known as Dip used to have his camp there. He died from the heat last week. Dead in his tent. Along with 4 other people I know of in a few block stretch over the past 2 weeks. His neighbor Bianca made the little shrine for him. He’s missed.
Every Arizonan needs to understand that if you vote R for these 3 seats — you WILL be paying more utility $$$.Republican candidates for the Arizona Corporation Commission position themselves in favor of utility rate increase, against clean energy standards
.
@USArmyReserve
@USArmy
- Do you endorse or condone the use of your military uniform in political attack ads? It is my understanding there are rules for this sort of thing.
Also, where the hell is a first-time 75 yr. old woman supposed to go? Guessing Lake of fire has no fucking clue how long it actually takes to get people housed (& esp. those on fixed incomes) in this inhospitable & unsustainable housing market. So gross…
Apparently cop kept talking about huge hiring bonuses, kids were sent to website & they had to write a paragraph about why someone might want to become a cop. So my daughter being my daughter wrote this.
Though there are so many people who will never know this rule is in place because of hundreds & hundreds of my hours of unpaid research that started many years ago, along with my tenacious nature, it is one of the proudest accomplishments of my life.
#HeatKills
#publichealth
Not sure if Abe missed the memo about our AZ water crisis, but it seems he has no clue about what the AG’s office is actually in charge of. Abe is a one trick Trumpy pony. Vote
#KrisMayes4AZAG
Well, I made it to 50 today! New decade here I come. Here’s me & my favorite girl. It’s for her, our 🌎& future generations I’ll never stop fighting for until I breathe my last breath, so look out. Also, attitude is everything.
#dogood
#lovefiercely
#genx
#birthday
Very important read. “today nearly one in five American children are living below the poverty line, twice the average rate in other developed countries.”
#WarOnThePoor
#SingleMoms
Welfare has gone from serving 4.4M families in 1996 to just 1M today, despite the U.S. population increasing by 60M over the same period.
Yet child poverty hasn’t budged:
Today nearly 1-in-5 American children are living below the poverty line.
Having lived in
#Arizona
-the Petri dish of bad ALEC-driven legislation, birthers & Tea Partiers on meth- for 21+ yrs., the “Patriot”/Q/MAGA people are a whole new level of paranoid meets insane meets dumb that I’m not feeling too comfortable with, especially given the gun thing.
I wish I would have been able to meet this
#civiljustice
warrior & artist who lived in
#Tucson
where she died from
#COVID19
at a nursing home with her family saying their goodbyes through a window. Crushing...
#RIPSally
2 yrs. ago, through DNA testing, I was finally able to track down who my biological father is. It started with finding my niece & her dad - my 1/2 brother! Tonight, I got to have dinner with my 1st cousin who I’ve never met in person & it was awesome. Life is so interesting…
This morning I planted 500 red flags on the
@CorpCommAZ
lawn to symbolize the nearly 500 INDOOR heat deaths that have occurred just in
@maricopacounty
from 2010-2020. AC in AZ is LIFE or DEATH. We need data-driven rules $ 95 deg. is TOO HIGH.
#heatkills
In case anyone needs a good Sunday laugh. I’m also fairly certain if Erin Brockovich lived in Arizona, she definitely would’ve voted for Kris Mayes (who is kicking ass as our Attorney General AKA
#LawyerForThePeople
).
What an intense + emotional day. As a lifelong only child, on my
#DNA
quest to find out who my father is, I just got confirmation that I have a half brother! We’ve been talking a lot while waiting for his results & both had a gut feeling, but today it’s real!
The man on the cot is elderly + vision impaired. It was 35 deg. when sweeps started this morning. 3 people have already gone to the hospital. This is how
@CityofPhoenixAZ
@MayorGallego
treat our vulnerable unsheltered neighbors.Please sign:
My God you just can’t make this shit up! Here’s the GOP AZ AG candidate (who would be in charge of investigating/prosecuting consumer fraud) canoodling with an MLM co. who has thousands of complaints, countless lawsuits & lead in their supplements! 🦇 💩 crAZy! Calling
@TheOnion
.
@krismayes
did a press conference on the Saudi water grab today, which is critical to Arizona, & all her opponent could do is act like a mini Trump man-child. Vote
#KrisMayes4AZAG
When someone tells you who they are, believe them. Vote for
@krismayes
for AZ Attorney General. We need a
#LawyerForThePeople
, not a man child, poser who’s proud to be called “one of the most dangerous candidates running for office.”
1/2 a tank of gas for my little Pontiac Vibe just cost me $33 in
#Phoenix
. Feeling heartburn for low wage earners who have to commute, plus there’s no affordable housing in our city + sprawl land in general.
A quick 🧵. When you think of the zone in downtown
#Phoenix
, you most likely all think of this, and for the most part, you’d be right. No trees/shade, lots of asphalt, 1k+ people on streets with nowhere to go. Little respite from scorching temps. This is at 10th Ave. & Jefferson.
I have just submitted the following Citizens’ Petition to
@CityofPhoenixAZ
@MayorGallego
@PHXcitymanager
+ all Council members with regard to treatment of our unsheltered neighbors & will be giving public comment on this at today’s Formal Council Meeting.
@jennycohn1
And our elected official Justin Olson, who is currently an Arizona Corporation Commissioner (in charge of regulating our state’s utilities + corps.) is the Turning Point USA CFO. Which is egregious to me. Tons of AZ ties... Hope
@FBI
is paying attention.
Countless Arizonans out of work, food insecurity, surge in homelessness, twice as many heat deaths, exorbitant energy bills, CVID-19,bullseye of climate change - &
@SenMcSallyAZ
is emailing me on a Sun. evening asking if the U.S. should ban TikTok?!? Are you effing kidding me?!?
@jennycohn1
The other insane thing to know about this is that Jake Hoffman who runs the marketing firm that set it up was just elected to our state legislature in the last election cycle. See:
Unsheltered people all around us.I live in midtown PHX & many of the folks in my neighborhood are older & feel unsafe downtown, so they're tucked in where they feel safe.Just passed out a dozen gift bags + 3 sleeping bags and will help 2 women get connected to resources tomorrow.
@DavidCornDC
Trying to get eyeballs on the fact that current Arizona Corporation Commissioner Justin Olson serves as CFO for Turning Point USA. So many Arizona ties to insurrection...
CRITICAL!
#AZMEDIA
- have elderly couple who has been without AC for 4-5 days because
@AHS_Warranty
is saying part will take 2 weeks to APPROVE. I convinced they need to go to hotel TODAY, so we’re working on that. If they’re doing this to this couple, there are more.
#heatkills
The hypocrisy from this grifter who hasn’t had a job in 2+ yrs. is nauseating. His own parents overstayed their visas by yrs. which was discovered when his dad was charged for fire bombing a synagogue in Chicago (charges later dropped). See:
#DishonestAbe
Z said the teacher then death glared her from her desk for the rest of the class & told the cop “You don’t want to read that.” As a parent, I’m not okay with any of this, nor do I think this is an appropriate use of time in BIOLOGY CLASS.
.
@MarthaMcSally
miserably failing with her immature Trump tactics & weird smile/talk face. This is serious shit. People in our state are HURTING. For shame.
#AZSen
.
@RepDLesko
- I’ve had 2 babies 100% natural, 2 miscarriages at 10-12 weeks, both req. d&c’s, & 1 pill abortion following all of that. I can say it wasn’t enjoyable, but didn’t cause ANY of the things you mentioned. Your ideology doesn’t belong in my vagina, ma’am, so suck a 🌵.
Women who take chemical abortion pills face:
❌intense pain
❌excessive bleeding
❌infection
❌death
This isn’t health care, and it’s not pro-woman.
#prolife
🧵 It’s currently 97 degrees F in
@CityofPhoenixAZ
at almost midnight. If you’re unsheltered or live somewhere that doesn’t have AC (or yours broke) & you don’t have $ for a hotel, you’re shit out of luck, because there’s NO PLACE TO GO…
An Excessive Heat Warning has been extended through this week, and it's critical to find ways to keep cool, stay hydrated, and look out for one another. ☀️
Please use and share this map to find cooling and respite centers, as well as hydration stations:
2 years ago, I started a petition over the unjust & unjustified rate hike of
#Arizona
’s largest
#utilitymonopoly
, APS. Now they want $184MIL more. This site shares my journey of what fighting a multi-billion $$$ Goliath looks like.
#StopTheAPSGreed
Apparently nobody sells bus passes. Pro transportation guy heard me talking to her. I offered to just get her a Lyft (home is 14th St. & McDowell) & he offered to just take her. He said “we all have to help each other.” Other kind humans in this world which gives me hope.
Protecting Arizona’s water was one of the top issues during
@AZAGMayes
’ campaign, she has led on water since being elected, & I have no doubt that we would not be seeing a lot of this common sense momentum without her incredible leadership + AGO involvement.
#WaterIsLife
I commend Governor Hobbs for taking action against Fondomonte's default on their Butler Valley lease in Western Arizona, and for deciding to not renew the company's additional Butler Valley leases. 1/
🧵 A story about the stigma surrounding our
#unsheltered
folks all being “mentally ill” &/or “drug addicts” & why it’s so important to STOP this bullshit & lead with compassion. (Note: my background isn’t pretty, so this helps me understand trauma, have empathy & not be a-hole.)
This spoiled man child is the most pathetic candidate I’ve ever seen.His obsession with me is creepy. Abe hired an alleged rapist, is under investigation by military, stole land from his dad, committed voter fraud, lied on financial disclosure, lied about parents & can suck a 🌵.
I have a new
#WalkYourTalk
dare for all
#Arizona
politicians + candidates. Join me for 2 hours to help with street outreach + conversations with those in real crisis. No photo ops, no social media. Just you, me & real people. If you’re brave + interested in the truth, hit me up.
Joined the fabulous
@tedatpbs
@arizonapbs
wearing my “community advocate” hat today to talk about the awful increase in heat deaths. Also brought him a copy of your new book,
@jeffgoodell
. On at 5 & 10p.
#HeatKills