Month: August 2014

A vote for Doug Ducey is a vote for Cathi Herrod as the ‘shadow governor’ of Arizona

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HerrodI have warned you previously that a vote for “Cathi’s Clown” Doug Ducey means electing Cathi Herrod and her Christian Taliban Center for Arizona Policy the “shadow governor” of Arizona.

As a key adviser to Dicey Ducey, Cathi Herrod will be writing her anti-abortion, anti-contraception, God hates gays, school privatization/voucher bills, and a new SB 1062 Religious Bigotry bill from an adjoining office to the governor. That should terrify any right-minded voter.

Linda Valdez at the Arizona Republic sounds the alarm. Look for return of SB 1062 if Doug Ducey wins:

On Election Day, Tempe took one step toward expanding LGBT rights and Arizona potentially took a giant leap back by nominating Doug Ducey as GOP candidate for governor.

If Ducey becomes governor, institutional discrimination could become law when Cathi Herrod returns with “SB 1062, The Sequel.”

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RGA attack ad fails the sniff test

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bullshitjWell that didn’t take long. The day after the election, the Republican Governor’s Association (RGA) was on the air with an attack ad against Democratic gubernatorial candidate Fred DuVal. The RGA would have you believe that Fred DuVal is single-handedly responsible for tuition increases at Arizona colleges during his tenure as a regent on the Arizona Board of Regents. (By the way, the Governor is an ex-officio member of the Arizona Board of Regents. Ariz. Const. Art. 11, Sec. 5).

The ad requires Arizonans to erase from their memories the recent history of our Tea-Publican controlled Arizona legislature making  devastating budget cuts to higher education over the signature of Gov. Jan Brewer since the start of the Bush Great Recession in 2007.

Here are some helpful reminders for those of you who suffer from short-tern memory loss, from The Atlantic. A Truly Devastating Graph on State Higher Education (March 20, 2013):

The chart below from the Center On Budget and Policy Priorities estimates how much each of the 50 states has slashed per-student funding for its university systems since the start of the recession, adjusted for inflation. In Arizona, where the cuts were the deepest, funding has been hacked in half. Nationwide, legislatures have sliced off 28 percent on average.

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The Wicked Witch of the West has lost her magic

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Wicked_Witch-melting-01The Wicked Witch of the West, Governor Jan Brewer, is a spent political force in Arizona. She no longer possesses any magic, and she is powerless within her own Arizona Republican Party.

Only the incumbent state legislators whom Brewer endorsed won their primaries on Tuesday. That has more to do with the power of incumbency and name ID than a Brewer endorsement.  The business community campaign funds that flowed to these Republican incumbents would have done so any way. They always support GOP incumbents.

The “Brew Crew” challengers to Republican legislators all lost despite Brewer’s endorsement and political PAC spending on their behalf.  Only Birther Rep. Carl Seel (R-Phoenix) lost his seat, and he lost to another Tea Party candidate, not a Brewer-backed candidate.

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Questions for Martha McSally: Do you support a government shutdown over immigration?

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McSally-KingCD 2 GOP candidate Martha McSally supported Rep. Steve King’s Tea Party non-compromise border bills in the House. Martha McSally is a ‘Deportation Republican.

Now Steve King is threatening to shut down the government in September if President Obama uses executive orders to deal with immigration.

McSally has steadfastly refused to give a straightforward yes or no answer to whether she would have supported the Tea-Publican government shutdown last October. If she wants to serve in Congress, the voters of CD 2 have the right to know her position on this latest Tea-Publican government shutdown threat.

Think Progress reports, Republicans Threaten To Shut Down The Government If Obama Extends Relief To Immigrants:

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) floated the possibility of shutting down the government on Wednesday if President Obama issues an executive action granting deportation relief to more undocumented immigrants.

“If the president wields his pen and commits that unconstitutional act to legalize millions, I think that becomes something that is nearly political nuclear,” King said in remarks before the Westside Conservative Breakfast Club in Urbandale, Iowa, adding that “all bets are off” on passing a measure to keep the government running past October.

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