Wednesday, January 25th, 2006...12:48 pm
Just In Case They Didn’t Get the Point the First Time
The Republicans went ahead and passed their “fix” to the English language learner’s bill. Apparently, they thought that the fix would be decreasing the corporate tax give away from $850,000,000 to $50,000,000. I guess you can call that an improvement, but they did nothing to fix the numerous other flaws in the bill, such as the insignficant sum of money that is actually spent, the accounting tricks to make it look like they are spending more and the fact that it forces school districts to beg for money in a process that could be highly politicized.
The Governor vetoed it this morning. Back to the drawing board. There aren’t a whole lot of Republican elected officials that take advice from me, but here is something: why not try to speak to the Governor and find a nice compromise that actually addresses the issue instead of trying to sneak in massive tax give aways. I know you all think you are being clever, but Napolitano is a hell of a lot smarter than most of you are.
Here’s one for my friends in the local media: we keep hearing how our Southern Arizona Republicans are this wonderful moderating force in the legislature. Of Baja Arizona Republicans, only Toni Hellon and Pete Hershberger saw fit to oppose SB 1998, the much worse $850,000,000 give away bill that the Governor vetoed yesterday (R-Cubed props to them). The entirety of the rest of the Southern Arizona Republican delegation, all of whom are regarded as sensible moderates, thought that the bill was a great piece of legislation. So, let’s ask people like Steve Huffman and Marian McClure why such a massive corporate tax give away (especially while memories of “alt-Fuels” are still fresh) was such a great idea. Also, let’s ask them what the heck it had to do with teaching kids English.
4 Comments
January 25th, 2006 at 1:37 pm
Weiers and Bennett must be threatening wayword GOP’ers with cutting funds for maintaining the roads in front of their homes if the Federal Government makes good on their threat to punish AZ by cutting highway funds if we don’t follow the ruling on Flores.
January 25th, 2006 at 3:23 pm
I always considered myself a strongly heterosexual woman.
Never thought I’d fall in love with a woman.
…but then again, she’s got a bigger, brassier pair of cojones than any of the “boys” in the legislature, so I guess I’m safe. ;-P
Go Janet!!
January 26th, 2006 at 1:30 am
anonymous:
She’s already spoken for, by the majority of Arizonans, who can’t wait to vote for her (reason #98 I’m voting early this year– I won’t have to wait as long to vote for Janet.)
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