Arizona: Ron Gould

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

The man who would be king of Arizona (if not for the inconvenience of those pesky elections) failed to deliver the necessary Republican votes today in his Senate Appropriations Committee on the first of a package of 12 "feed" bills for the compromise budget deal between the Accidental Governor and her GOP insane clown possee leadership. Arizona budget deal takes a step backward:

A tenuous budget deal between Gov. Jan Brewer and GOP legislative leaders took a step backward Monday morning, with the Senate Appropriations Committee rejecting a key portion of the plan.

The feed bill, Senate Bill 1470, failed in the committee on a 4-4 vote — a majority vote is necessary for passage.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Rep. Steve Farley (D-Tucson) thinks that our Accidental Governor and the GOP insane clown possee leadership will sell out Arizonans and come to a compromise deal on the budget at the last minute, while entirely shutting out slightly less than half of all Arizonans who are represented by Democratic legislators in this state from the process.

Aren't these the same Republicans who are incessantly whining about bipartisanship in Congress? My, mistake. When Republicans say "bipartisanship" they actually mean "my way." When they have control, their totalitarian nature comes to full flower. This disaster is a GOP production -- they own it.

Some wild happenings at the Arizona Legislature.  Yee-haw!  We have a gen-u-wine shootout between the Republican Gov and the Republican "leadership" of the State Legislature.  Who will shut down the government first.  Place your bets now.  One thing for sure, this is government of Republicans, by Republicans, and for Republicans.  We won't forget to remind voters of this come election time, will we? Ya see, Republicans believe that government can't do anything right and when you elect them they try to prove it. They're sure doing a heck of a job.

Your weekly update courtesy of Rep. Farley from down yonder.

Howdy,  Friends O'Farley.

by David Safier

Not to be outdone by Frank Antenori (see post below), Russell Pearce and Ron Gould proved they could go Rambo too.

Both are upset about the way money was put back in the Department of Economic Security budget after it was yanked when they made the initial cuts. After ripping the lollipop out of a tot's hand, they didn't want to look like sissies when they had to give it back.

A provision in the legislation restoring the DES money would have taken $17 million out of state aid to cities. The cities responded:

Lawmakers did agree to remove a controversial provision which would have reduced state aid to cities immediately by $17 million to help keep the budget in balance.