GOP leader: Brewer threat is specter of shutdown

[ccharles000]

PHOENIX (AP) - Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday demanded that the state Legislature send approved budget bills to her and threatened to sue. Republican legislators refused and one said the situation "raises the specter of a government shutdown."

Brewer wants Senate President Bob Burns, R-Peoria, to send her the bills approved on June 4 to implement a Republican legislative budget plan that she has criticized.

"I will not allow the president to hold the entire state hostage by holding all of the budget bills," Brewer said earlier at a news conference. "Send me those bills so we can move to the next step in the budget process."

The Republican governor, however, acknowledged Monday that she "probably wouldn't sign" those bills.

Because of a possible veto, Burns and House Speaker Kirk Adams said they won't transmit the bills because they want the bills as the basis for a compromise with Brewer. If the bills are vetoed, lawmakers risk losing months of work, they said.

http://www.kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=10536524&nav=HMO6

[mzteris]

1. whew!

I thought they were talking about a BEER BREWER shutting down. OH NOOOESSSS!

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2. Some context

The Leg. has been in session for a very long time. During that time, the neoLibertarians, i.e. extreame RWers, has put a hold on all other legislation coming to floor to be voted on. So they have done nothing except talk about the budget -- except that hasn't gone anywhere as the referenced article indicates. The proposed budgets of the Governor and Leg. both gut education, health care for poor children, etc. and offer tax breaks to businesses and special interests. They are itching to get school vouchers, etc. and did a bill did go through that drastically restricts abortion in teh state.

Other bills in committee are to allow guns in bars, outlaw school districts paying for salaries of union reps, allow the sale of real fireworks, and a few other goofy things. Oh, my leg. introduced a bill to allow the building of private roads, highways, and bridges that will be able to collect tolls.

In sum, this session has been a disaster for the state of Arizona and I expect we'll follow California down the tubes.

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4. Oh yeah I forgot

Brewer soundly criticized our former Governor Janet Napolitano for using accounting gimmicks and offsets to balance the budget. Brewer's own budget contains accounting gimmicks, etc.

[HopeHoops]

3. Whew - for a moment I thought you meant BEER brewer!

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