Arizona's senior senator (D-AZ/I-Wall Street) never understood what the moment required of her, the Senate & other civic institutions.

U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ/I-Wall Street) delivered her farewell address on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, proving she doesn't understand the nature of the threat to freedom America faces or the reasons people are so pissed about the state of things.

The woman is just that far removed from the people she serves and that's why I've been on Sinema the last few years. She deserves it. It's easy and, frankly, necessary.

However, I don't just want to attack her because I've got no problem with some of what she said.

Sinema rightly stated that America exists in the push and pull. Yeah. It does. Think about what the Preamble to the Constitution means by promoting the general welfare and securing the blessings of liberty. Those two imperatives are at odds. The government securing the general welfare will cost you a little bit of freedom.

Sinema also correctly points out that the American system is not what you would build to make good things happen. It was established to prevent tyrannical rulers from doing bad things fast.

American democracy requires patience and persistence.

Arizona’s long ballot has already caused a few slight delays in Maricopa County during the first few weeks of early voting, along with other complaints that may continue through Election Day on Tuesday and beyond.

The county had to stretch its ballot onto two sheets of paper, front and back, for the first time in nearly two decades. That’s because there are so many contests — an average of 79. Election officials knew of the types of problems this could cause, and tried to prepare.

Nonetheless, the consequences have begun to emerge, including a slight delay in mail ballot deliveries and a last-minute need for overnight workers, Votebeat has learned. And concerns about long lines and paper jams at polling places are spreading. Others are concerned with how officials have decided to track the two pages of each ballot once they are returned. All these issues may turn into easy targets for post-election litigation.

You could hear the spittle fly as the Heritage Foundation shouted out its latest intellectual assault on the Naval Academy.

All over Ruth Ben-Ghiat and a lecture the midshipmen likely will never hear.

She’s a New York University historian with a book on what happens to the military when authoritarians take power. She shows up as a commentator on MSNBC, connecting former President Donald Trump to some of the dictators she’s studied.

The academy’s history department invited her to speak about her work at the annual Bancroft Memorial Lecture. Then she was disinvited. Her politics were the problem, not her lecture.

The Arizona Republic reports:

Tempe police arrested Jeffrey Michael Kelly on Tuesday night in connection with the shooting at three Democratic Party offices in Tempe and leaving bags of white powder on political signs in Ahwatukee Foothills.

Kelly, 60, was charged with seven felony counts and three misdemeanor counts relating to the shootings, including terrorism and unlawful discharge, according to Tempe police. Possible charges regarding the bags of white powder have not been released.

Kelly was arrested on charges that include unlawful discharge, shooting at a non-residential structure, terrorism, and criminal damage.

The Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby ran down the scoop on the strange story we’ve been talking about for over a week now, mailers delivered in two competitive Colorado congressional races paid for by the Arizona Republican Party–a situation sufficiently unusual that we at first speculated it may have been some kind of printing error.

As it turns out, the Arizona GOP is making no mistake, and is indeed paying for mail pieces in support of Colorado candidates to fill in the gap created by the more-or-less moribund Colorado Republican Party under the chairmanship of Dave “No More Brandon” Williams–which continues after staving off a palace coup attempt to do essentially nothing to help Republican candidates win in the rapidly-approaching elections:

Why the Arizona GOP is spending money on Colorado races is unknown, but presumably it’s to help maintain a Republican majority in the U.S. House.

In a short text message to The Daily Sentinel from an unnamed person in the Arizona party, it said it “is happy to help our Republican neighbors in Colorado anyway it can.”

Why the Colorado GOP isn’t doing the same, is also unknown…

The Pima County Recorder’s Office has delayed the mailing of some ballots because of a problem with the voter rolls that assigned more than 500 voters to the wrong school district.

County officials and their private contractor, Runbeck Election Services, were expected to deliver the last packet of roughly 89,000 early ballots to the U.S. Postal Service on Monday, Oct. 14, according to the Recorder’s Office.

Between Wednesday, Oct. 9, and Sunday, Aug. 13, [sic] more than 386,000 ballots were delivered to USPS, according to county officials.

Oct. 14 is the federal Indigenous Peoples’ Day holiday, which will further delay the progress of the ballots to mailboxes, as postal employees won't be making deliveries.

There are so many choices for voters in this year’s election that county officials had to use a two-card, four-page ballot, with contests for elected officials on the front page of the first card and the propositions on the back page of the first card and both the front and back pages of the second card.

The divorce records of U.S. Congressman Ruben Gallego and Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego should be unsealed, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.

The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative political news outlet, sued to unseal the records back in January. In an opinion column, the editors of the publication wrote that they did so because Gallego had been speaking about his divorce publicly, and the public deserved to be able to fact check him.

The Beacon filed a lawsuit to unseal records from the 2017 divorce in Yavapai County Superior Court, where the divorce proceedings took place. Gallego had already been campaigning for a year for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Kyrsten Sinema, who did not run for reelection.

In Arizona, it’s not common for divorce records to be sealed, but at the Gallegos’ request, in 2016 the court sealed the records in their entirety after finding that “the privacy interests of the parties outweighs the general open records policy.”