Arizona: Bob Burns

In a comment on the ongoing push to get a sales-tax referral, Secretary of State Ken Bennett has given the powers that be at the Capitol a drop-dead date for completing their work: Sept. 9.
After that, it will be impossible for his office to stage a Dec. 8 statewide election, Bennett wrote in a letter sent to Gov. Jan Brewer, House Speaker Kirk Adams and Senate President Bob Burns. There are probably other deadlines ticking with county elections officials, Bennett wrote. For example, Maricopa County will need to order the special paper that is used to print the ballots almost ...

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

The Arizona House and Senate reconvene at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, beginning the eighth week of the Special Session. The Arizona Capitol Times reports that there has been no progress since 5-way talks began last Friday.

The Accidental Governor has until the end of Wednesday to either sign or veto the budget package sent to her last week -- unless the Legislature adjourns sine die today or tomorrow; this would extend the time the Accidental Governor has to act on bills sitting on her desk for another ten days. If there are genuine bipartisan negotiations underway, this may be what occurs today.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” -- Albert Einstein

The GOP insane clown posse transmitted to the Accidental Governor the same budget package on Thursday that she vetoed on July 1 in hopes the move will produce a different result.

Insanity.

In sending the bills to the governor, lawmakers started the clock ticking: The Arizona Constitution gives her through Wednesday to decide whether to sign or veto each of the bills or allow them to become law without her signature. Legislators send state budget plan to governor Late Thursday, Brewer's spokesman Paul Senseman said the governor would likely announce her plans today.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

The House Appropriations Committee approved the conformed version of the state equalization property tax repeal bill on Tuesday. Arizona lawmakers miss deadline for property-tax repeal According to several news sources, Senate President Bob Burns says he cannot find support for the Accidental Governor's temporary sales tax increase, and he will transmit the Senate budget package, sans sales tax referral, to the House for final action. Sen. Burns did not specify when but it may be as early as today when the House and Senate reconvene this afternoon.

This budget is almost identical to the July 1 budget that the Accidental Governor vetoed as "fatally flawed.