Goddard calls on Brewer to stop hiding

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Press release from the Terry Goddard for Governor campaign:

GODDARD CALLS ON BREWER TO STOP HIDING

(Phoenix) – Attorney General Terry Goddard today called on Jan Brewer to stop hiding and to stop misleading the public.

Goddard made the remarks at a news conference in Phoenix this afternoon. 

Earlier in the day, Brewer held her own news conference, hundreds of miles away in Yuma, to announce that she still has no plan to solve Arizona's urgent job losses, but is forming another committee to look into the rural economy.  Her so-called rural plan relies on federal stimulus money for its funding.

Terry Goddard said, "On the one hand, Jan Brewer criticizes the federal government for giving stimulus money to states, then gleefully accepts it with the other hand, taking credit as if it were something she'd come up with on her own.  To make matters worse, the latest committee she has formed doesn't hold its first meeting until October 15th."

"On day one of her administration, Brewer should have come up with her plan to address Arizona's jobs crisis. Instead, she waited 20 months to announce the formation of another committee. This is another sad example of Brewer's failure to get the job done.

"Just last week, we learned that Yuma will suffer the loss of another 800 jobs.  These jobs, which belonged to hard-working Arizonans, are now headed to California and Alabama. Yuma and all of Arizona is losing jobs and Jan Brewer has done nothing but make the situation worse. She doesn't understand that Arizona is facing a jobs crisis.

"It is time for Jan Brewer to face Arizona voters. It is time she answer the questions I asked in the debate a week ago. Where is her jobs plan? What is she doing to do about the $1 billion deficit she created? How can she be satisfied with failing schools? It is time for Jan Brewer to stop hiding."

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