Crossposted from DemocraticDiva.com
No, this isn’t Governor Doug Ducey. It’s President Herbert Hoover. But same shit, different century.
It appears the efforts of Governor Doug Ducey and his communications people to enforce mandatory optimism are working, judging from this recent piece in the Arizona Capitol Times about the governor’s first year in office:
Remaking Arizona: Ducey’s free-market approach succeeds in year one
It would be difficult to imagine a more successful first year for Arizona’s 23rd governor.
Gov. Doug Ducey took office with two severe problems requiring immediate attention: a massive budget deficit and a K-12 funding lawsuit that threatened to drop Arizona even further into the fiscal hole. He set out to find an early resolution to the first and ended his first year by mediating a solution to the second. In the intervening months, he stayed active, putting his conservative, free-market imprimatur on state government.