Arizona and Nevada: These would be two very key states to flip over as Blue in this fiercely contested Battles for the Editorial Pages, and the larger battle to retake the United States Senate. Again, the editorial pages of the United States newspapers will take on an increasingly important and well deserved position in the evolving races for 2018 and will be more important in 2020.

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(This is the first time this Arizona newspaper has endorsed a Democrat in a statewide race since 2000, and the Las Vegas Sun is the second largest circulating newspaper; these are major breakthroughs for both candidates)

Political times call for one over the other

If you have grown tired of the toxic culture that has taken over Capitol Hill; if you long for more collegial leadership focused on solving problems, not settling scores; if you want a federal government that works, not wages constant war; you must send people to Washington who can change it. People who not only talk bipartisanship but determinedly practice it.

There may be no better example of politics by collaboration than Sinema. She literally wrote the book on it ---- "Unite and Conquer" (2009). She leads with an arm extended to the other side and a promise to work together.

She has traveled a long ways from the street-marching activist she once was to the good-natured centrist she now is.

In a Washington in which rancor and malice are disturbingly normal, Sinema is the antidote. Leaders like her can come from any party and they are needed more than ever.

That's why in the race to elect Arizona's next United States senator, The Arizona Republic recommends voters chose Kyrsten Sinema.

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"We need to get back to a saner time, when senators didn't call each other names -- or if they did, they could put it all aside after the vote and go get a beer together," the paper's editorial board wrote. "There is too much 'us and them' in D.C., and it hurts how we are governed.""The real Martha McSally and Kyrsten Sinema know that," the board argued. "But Sinema is the only one willing to say it (repeatedly) from behind her mask."The editorial board argued that McSally has gone further than Sinema in attacks on her opponent. "There may be no better example of politics by collaboration than Sinema," the paper's editorial board wrote, also pointing out that over 60 percent of the bills she has co-sponsored this session were introduced by Republicans and that Sinema sides "with Trump's agenda 62 percent of the time.""She has traveled a long ways from the street-marching activist she once was to the good-natured centrist she now is," the paper's board said. "In a Washington in which rancor and malice are disturbingly normal, Sinema is the antidote."

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Tucson's Arizona Star also endorse Sinema over the weekend:

The race to represent Arizona in the U.S. Senate is one of the most watched in the country, with good reason. It offers two views of Arizona, and our future:

Martha McSally's Arizona follows the Trump agenda, embraces tax cuts for the wealthy, values veterans, wants a border wall, seeks to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and is itching for a fight on trade, tariffs, immigration, foreign relations and the environment.

Kyrsten Sinema's Arizona is more pragmatic than ideological, unafraid to change, concerned about health-care affordability and access, values veterans, supports local law enforcement assisting federal immigration authorities, and is inclined to work together rather than draw battle lines.

Two moments from our interview with Sinema stood out as we weighed our endorsement choice for Senate: On health care, she talked about how working with others takes compromise, but that the discussion must begin with clear and defined principles to build on. "You don't just show up with a plan," she said.

And, when discussing her evolution from the left toward the center-left, Sinema was thoughtful and refreshing in a time when fidelity to an ideology or personality is a litmus test of worthiness: "I am committed to learning and growing," she said. "I have changed. It has definitely been a process. I would hope we would expect our leaders to learn and grow."

We agree. And for this reason, and others, we endorse Kyrsten Sinema for the U.S. Senate.

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From the Nevada Sun:

Rosen has a deep and wide-ranging understanding of Southern Nevada's needs. She worked for a time as a food server at Caesars Palace early in her adult life and later served as president of Congregation Ner Tamid, the largest Jewish reform synagogue in the valley.

Rosen has been a consistent defender of the groups who have been targeted by Trump and right-wing extremists -- women, immigrants and Muslims among them. Simply put, a vote for her is a vote against the spread of Trump's brand of authoritarianism and division, and for the return of bipartisanship in Washington.

Nevada needs her. The nation needs her as well.

You also can't accuse Rosen of being a puppet and also be so obviously and thoroughly beholden to Trump.

Just as Trump has shown no interest in being the president for all Americans, Heller's flip-flopping, cowardice and careerism prove he has no business being in a position where he's supposed to be serving all Nevadans.

Rosen, conversely, understands that being a senator means representing everyone, regardless of their ethnicity, their religion, their socioeconomic standing, their gender, their sexual identity or their party affiliation.

Rosen is the only choice for the office at this critical juncture for our democracy, with the nation poised to either stand up for our values of fairness and inclusion, or follow Trump further down his path of nationalism and authoritarianism.

In a national climate filled with hate and invective, with a sitting senator who defies Nevada's needs and values, Rosen is an antidote. She is a candidate not filled with hate. She is a candidate who stands for working together to solve our problems. She is a candidate who keeps Nevada's issues close to her heart and stands on principle.

Nevada deserves a senator like Rosen who has a firm grip on Nevada's issues, believes strongly in working with others and who possesses an impeccable character and values. It is time to put the political bankruptcy of Heller's behavior behind us and look toward a better future with Rosen.

When it comes to vision, character and solutions, Rosen towers over Heller.

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Authors Bio:

Early in the 2016 Primary campaign, I started a Facebook group: Bernie Sanders: Advice and Strategies to Help Him Win! As the primary season advanced, we shifted the focus to advancing Bernie's legislation in the Senate, particularly the most critical one, to protect Oak Flat, sacred to the San Carlos Apaches, in the Tonto National Forest, from John McCain's efforts to privatize this national forest and turn it over to Rio Tinto Mining, an Australian mining company whose record by comparison makes Monsanto look like altar boys, to be developed as North America's largest copper mine. This is monstrous and despicable, and yet only Bernie's Save Oak Flat Act (S2242) stands in the way of this diabolical plan.

We added "2020" to the title.


I am an art gallery owner in Santa Fe since 1980 selling Native American painting and NM landscapes, specializing in modern Native Ledger Art.


I have always been intensely involved in politics, going back to the mid's 1970's, being a volunteer lobbyist in the US Senate for the Secretary General of the United Nations, then a "snowball-in-hell" campaign for US Senate in NM in the late 70's, and for the past 20 years have worked extensively to pressure the FDA to rescind its approval for aspartame, the neurotoxic artificial sweetener metabolized as formaldehyde. This may be becoming a reality to an extent in California, which, under Proposition 65, is considering requiring a mandatory Carcinogen label on all aspartame products, although all bureaucracies seem to stall under any kind of corporate pressure.


Bills to ban aspartame were in the State Senates of New Mexico and Hawaii, but were shut down by corporate lobbyists (particularly Monsanto lobbyists in Hawaii and Coca Cola lobbyists in New Mexico).


For several years, I was the editor of New Mexico Sun News, and my letters to the editor and op/eds in 2016 have appeared in NM, California, Wisconsin, New York, Maryland, the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and many international papers, on the subject of consumer protection. Our best issue was 10 days before Obama won in 2008, when we published a special early edition of the paper declaring that Obama Wins! This was the top story on CNN for many hours, way back then....


My highest accomplishments thus far are

1. a plan to create a UN Secretary General's Pandemic Board of Inquiry, a plan that is in the works and might be achieved even before the 75th UN General Assembly in September 2020.


2. Now history until the needs becomes clear to the powers who run the United Nations: a UN Resolution to create a new Undersecretary General for Nutrition and Consumer Protection, strongly supported ten years ago by India and 53 cosponsoring nations, but shut down by the US Mission to the UN in 2008. To read it, google UNITED NATIONS UNDERSECRETARY GENERAL FOR NUTRITION, please.


These are not easy battles, any of them, and they require a great deal of political and journalistic focus. OpEdNews is the perfect place for those who have a lot to say, so much that they exceed the limiting capacities of their local and regional newspapers. Trying to go beyond the regional papers seems to require some kind of "inside" credentials, as if you had to be in a club of corporate-accepted writers, and if not, you are "from somewhere else," a sad state of corporate induced xenophobia that should have no place in America in 2020!

This should be a goal for every author with something current to say: breaking through yet another glass ceiling, and get your say said in editorial pages all over America. Certainly, this was a tool that was essentially ignored in 2016, and cannot be ignored in the big elections of 2020.


In my capacity as Editor of the Santa Fe Sun News, Fox interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev: http://www.prlog.org/10064349-mikhail-gorbachev