Comments on: PR: Goddard & Dems Choose Partisanship Over Statesmanship

By: todd

todd — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:03:37 +0000

Oberserve, I think you don’t understand what the maintenance of effort requirement is. It requires the same spending in total dollars as in 2006 or the same spending per pupil ( the state had a choice over which to use and AZ choose total spending). I am talking about the same percentage of the budget. This is the requirement to get an education waiver.

By: Pious

Pious — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:08:05 +0000

Did she just place the gender card? I thought we left that to the Demowhiner paraty and their leftist feminazis?

By: Carlist

Carlist — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:14:59 +0000

I notice that Brewer is attacking Goddard from a p.c. position much in the same manner as Mike Steele is attacking Harry Reid.

This trait among Establishment GOPPERS surrendering long term creditability to score short term points is ridiculous.

But then we’re not dubbed “The Stupid Party” for nothing!

By: Oberserve

Oberserve — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:13:12 +0000

todd, you are incorrect that the state will not be eligible for a waiver if it lowers its % of the budget being spent on education.

That’s the POINT of a WAIVER, the elimination of the requirement to spend the required % to get the match.

Other states have done it and were given IMMEDIATE, INSTANTANEOUS waivers.

Brewer hasn’t even tried because the 1% TAX INCREASE is more important to her (and her investors) than representing Arizona and Arizonans.

By: todd

todd — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:38:04 +0000

Oberserve – why do you think the feds will give the state a waiver? Guess what – the state won’t be eligible for a waiver if it lowers the percentage of the budget being spent on education from what the percentage was the year before.

By: DSW

DSW — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:15:08 +0000

Well, that’s certainly one way for them to meet their goal of being relevant!

By: Antifederalist

Antifederalist — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:08:07 +0000

Shane,
If, as some have suggested, she wants to peel off Dims to vote for her budget, they’ll be relevant. So, again, if she wants to peel Dems, why upset them by attacking them? It’s counterproductive.

By: DSW

DSW — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:02:09 +0000

I think the goal of Democrats in the next legislative session is to be relevant to state government.

By: Antifederalist

Antifederalist — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:58:40 +0000

Brewer wants Dem help on the budget, then when they snipe at her a little she attacks them? Is she nuts? You don’t attack those you want help from. More proof that the woman is just incapable of working with the lege…EITHER side of the aisle.

Also, she’s releasing her budget plan in a Friday dump at the end of a news cycle? What clown is running her operation? This suggests to me that she has no plan, or at least one with few details or doesn’t work. Likely, it’s going to be the same rehash of the same tax increase shes been peddling unsuccessfully all along. Great recipe for success! If she REALLY had a workable solution or WANTED her plan to get scrutiny, she’d release it on a Monday or a Tuesday.

This riposte is more proof that Brewer needs to just retire gracefully. Brewer didn’t need to respond to the Dims’ inane responses. Their solution is simple and it’s the same as the Dims on the national level to boot: spend, spend, spend and waste while you’re in the red. The Dims are hanging themselves and Brewer only alienated them by attacking back. Smooth move, Ex-Lax.

Finally, her claim that Goddard is being misogynistic is just weak. Smells of desperation. What she should be smelling is her own political demise.

By: Oberserve

Oberserve — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:34:30 +0000

Still shucking that tax increase?

Why not pony up, get the waiver from the feds, so you can still cut the budget and keep the federal matching dollars?

THATS RIGHT EVERYONE

You do NOT have to “spend a dollar to get two.”

All our good governor has to do is her job, asserting Arizona’s interests to the feds, and BRING ARIZONA DOLLARS HOME TO ARIZONA.

No state spending needed to do it and no tax increase!

By: johnny

johnny — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:34:02 +0000

While I think thos attack piece is pretty good and hard hitting I think her playing the gender card is pathetic.

He was not attacking her because she is a woman he would say the same types of things if vernon parker or dean martin were governor. When she does that it is a big turn off.

Also she says goddard should present his budget for legislation… He is not a member of the legislature so he can’t exactly do that…

But finally someone is throwing punches at the other side in this race and not just other fellow gop candidates.