Arizona: Arizona

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Arizona has gone from Governor Janet Napolitano and the Republican legislature enacting a ten percent income tax cut in 2006-07 to give back a tax surplus because "it's your money," to a state in economic free fall...

by David Safier

I received an email this morning from a teacher at an Arizona independent school who is planning to ask his students if they were surveyed for the civics test Goldwater Institute used to create 3 separate studies comparing high school students attending public and private schools.

The question is, was the survey ever conducted? The best way to determine the answer is Yes is to find students who can say conclusively they got a phone call and answered the survey between November 21-23, 2008. Since about 10% of all private school high school students should have been surveyed (1350 out of about 11,000 total), it shouldn't be hard to find people who remember taking the survey.

Gov. Jan Brewer is lamenting the litigious state of affairs in Arizona.
Why, just this month, the state has been hit with four lawsuits (five, if you count the amendments made to an earlier filing) and the Legislature OK'd an $18 million payment to settle a contract dispute it lost with Science Foundation Arizona.
"They sue, sue, sue," the governor complained during a press conference to complain about the latest lawsuit against the Legislature, this one filed by the League of Arizona Cities and Towns.
Rather than turn to the courts, Brewer said groups should try to work out their differences with ...

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

If you needed any further evidence that the Accidental Governor is a lame duck governor who is neither respected nor feared by her own Republican dominated legislature, Monday should have erased any doubt.

Governor Jan Brewer on July 1, 2009 in her veto message of the state budget:

I received early this morning a fatally flawed legislative budget. The legislative budget ignores my consistently expressed goals and instead incorporates devastating cuts to education, public safety, and our state's most vital health services for the frail. In particular, this package of bills is shortsighted, in that it sets up an enormous revenue shortfall that will severely harm our State's future.