Arizona: Kirk Adams

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 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:

I had to go out of town on business for a few days - I have work and family obligations, and a life - unlike some of the trolls who post comments here.

It's just another manic Monday as the GOP insane clown posse begins the seventh week of the Special Session still trying to find the elusive 16th vote for the "Sham-Wow!" budget deal that for the moment is dead. However, it may be revived from the dead like a zombie on a motion for reconsideration in the Senate. Even if the Senate somehow manages to find the elusive 16th vote, it is no certainty that the House would vote to approve the "Sham-Wow!" budget deal.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

It appears that the "Sham-Wow!" budget deal from last Friday is now officially dead, taking with it Sen. Jack Harper's four amendments (one of which would have screwed Tucson out of its Rio Nuevo funding). The Senate has killed the decoupled sales tax referral measure and the linked personal and corporate income tax cuts to lure votes for the sales tax referral in the Senate. The remainder of the budget as passed by the House last week was approved by the Senate on Wednesday.

An effort to finally enact a compromise plan to balance the state budget blew up Wednesday as Senate Republican leaders could not line up the votes for the key provision demanded by Gov.