The Morning Roundup radar was blipping all over this morning during our first cup of coffee with three juicy items that had us happy to be alive:

•On the more serious side, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes lost a ballot fight yesterday when Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Julie Ann Mata ruled that his proposed description of the ESA-reform initiative Prop 212 was misleading. She ordered him to rewrite it, like a mean professor. Mata found the language omitted significant provisions involving enforcement and state supervision of private schools and homeschools receiving ESA funds. This hands Republicans and school-choice groups a clean political hit on Fontes while he’s running for reelection, and it adds another layer of chaos to the Legislature-versus-voucher-reform ballot war, which has more plot twists than House of the Dragon. We’ll watch to see whether Fontes appeals, what replacement language his office produces, and whether or not they use too much passive voice, a particular concern of ours.

•Fontes offered his opponent in the November general election, Republican secretary of state nominee Alexander Kolodin, a potential debate date of September 21. However, that date is Yom Kippur, and Kolodin is Jewish. Kolodin responded, calling Fontes’s offer “cowardly, pathetic, and un-American.” Morning Roundup is Jewish itself, and also grew up in Arizona, so it’s pretty obvious that Fontes didn’t offer this date up as a deliberate insult. His staff simply didn’t know. However, if Sandy Koufax won’t pitch in the World Series on Yom Kippur, and most Jews give up their favorite thing, lunch, for it, then Alex Kolodin shouldn’t have to debate. He did miss a great political opportunity by not counter-offering to debate on Easter Sunday.

•Meanwhile, KJZZ’s apparently inexhaustible interest in the political career of Republican Corporation Commission Ralph Heap  continued on Wednesday, with their revelation that Green Party Secretary of State nominee Duwayne Collier personally collected hundreds of signatures for Heap’s campaign. The Arizona Green Party already actively opposes Collier and has accused him and gubernatorial nominee Risa Lombardo of being spoiler candidates tied to Republican politics. We all know that Greens spoil easily, which is why you need to keep them wrapped in paper towels in the crisper.