I have no earthly idea if the sales tax will pass the House. I doubt there are votes in the Republican caucus to pass it, and Democratic leadership is less than enthusiastic about the bill.
I’ve gotten some feedback from R Cubed fans asking why Democrats in the Senate voted for the bill. Word from folks [...]
Below is the latest Farley Report. I need to give Steve Farley and Tom Chabin their props for their opposition to Kirk Adams’s latest bill.
Adams’s bill is called “Arizona’s Job Recovery Act,” but as you’ll see in Farley’s report, it is yet another excuse to cut taxes on the wealthy and big business. In a [...]
While we were at the gathering of Democrats at the Wyndham Hotel up in Phoenix, one of my Blackberry-enabled fellow travellers read a Twitter post from a reporter at the Republican confab. Kirk Adams was blaming “Sinema Democrats” for the problems with the budget.
Yep. To believe this one, you’ll have to set aside actual facts, [...]
Speaker Kirk Adams is once again making a big deal about “bipartisanship.” I think back to a oft-quoted line from Thomas Reed, the Republican speaker in the early part of the 20th Century known as “Czar” Reed for his control of the body. No word on whether the Glenn Beck of the age was in [...]
It’s hard to say that the Governor and legislative leadership thought that a “deal” had been struck, since anything that they had seemed to be based a combination of wishful thinking, strange assumptions and a misunderstanding of the Arabic number system. We’ll go ahead and call it a deal, and declare it officially off.
Bob Burns [...]
It seems that the notion of a special session is falling apart. The strategy of allowing cuts to go through with the vague promise of a special session later to handle revenue (a tactic either inspired by J. Wellington Wimpy or Satipo from Raiders of the Lost Ark) didn’t work that well for la Cervecera.
Marszałek [...]
The Senate was supposed to convene at 10 AM, but no dice. Marszałek Senatu Bob Burns brokered a deal with Jorge García and Albert Hale which would have allowed schools on reservations to use impact aid for things like exces utilities. There is a sound policy reason for this: schools on reservations can’t depend on [...]
Now you know why these are called “Special Sessions.” Like a very special episode of, say, Family Ties, this one is “to be continued.” To be continued today, as a matter of fact.
No word yet if the Governor has a plan to leave the state before things commence at ten today.
Marszałek Senatu Bob Burns reportedly [...]
I made some calls to get some perspective from folks at the capitol about yesterday’s news that Kevin Tyne is leaving the Governor’s office.
First, a word about Tyne’s new job. Tyne will be leaving the employ of La Cervecera to become an advisor to the Republican Governors Association. I don’t know exactly what Tyne [...]
Eli Blake made an excellent point in a response to one of my earlier posts and it is worth repeating:
Is the argument of Kirk Adams, Bob Burns and company going to be that they would have liked to have made even deeper education cuts, but the mean Governor wouldn’t let them? Is this the sort [...]
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