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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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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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Top 10 Reasons Doug Ducey Is Too Extreme for Arizona Voters

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The Koch Brothers support Doug Ducey for Arizona governor.
The Koch Brothers support Doug Ducey for Arizona governor.

After seven months of mud-slinging in a six-way primary race that looked like a remake of Lord of the Flies, multi-millionaire ice cream mogul Doug Ducey has won the Arizona Republican Party’s nomination for governor.

Ducey’s sugary sweet interview with AZCentral this morning made it sound as if he’s already been elected governor, but there’s another election in November, and Democrats statewide are pulling out all the stops to get their candidate, Fred DuVal, elected.

Unfortunately for Tea Partiers in the great state of Maricopa, polls show that: 1) the match-up between Ducey and DuVal is a dead heat and 2) Ducey’s anti-Medicaid-expansion, anti-Obamacare, anti-abortion, anti-woman, anti-worker, anti-immigrant, anti-gay-marriage, anti-common-core, pro-Koch-Brothers platform is not aligned with Arizona voters’ issues.

Don’t let Ducey’s charming aw-shucks, Leave-It-to-Beaver persona fool you. He runs with a tough crowd of right-wing ideologues. You can tell a lot about a person’s true character by looking at the company he keeps. Consequently, the company Ducey keeps weighs heavily in my Top 10 Reasons Why Doug Ducey Is Too Extreme for Arizona…

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Arizona Supreme Court to decide standing issue in Medicaid expansion case

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gavelThe Arizona Capitol Times (subscription required) reports that the Arizona Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal from Governor Jan Brewer’s Medicaid (AHCCS) expansion lawsuit challenging the legislature’s standing. Arizona Supreme Court accepts Medicaid case:

The Arizona Supreme Court will have the final word on whether a group of Republican lawmakers have the right to sue over last year’s Medicaid expansion vote.

The high court on Tuesday granted Gov. Jan Brewer’s request for a review of a Court of Appeals that granted standing to 36 legislators. The lawmakers alleged that the vote violated a provision of the Arizona Constitution requiring a two-thirds vote in the Legislature to raise taxes.

Brewer, who got her Medicaid plan passed over strenuous opposition from conservative Republicans, praised the Supreme Court for agreeing to take the case.

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Miranda lying to LD27 voters about her anti-choice stance and record

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Crossposted on DemocraticDiva.com After weeks of hearing voters at their doors telling canvassers for Aaron Marquez, who is challenging Catherine Miranda for the Arizona LD27 Democratic Senate nomination, that supporters of Miranda had told them she was pro-choice, the Marquez camp now has recorded evidence of the deception. I’m not sure if this phone-banker is … Read more