On the issue of Dean staying in the Treasurer’s office, first, if Kerry were still with us, she’d be the one lighting a fire under Dean’s rear to run. Not only does Dean believe that, but Kerry was a personal friend of mine, I named my daughter after her, and I 100% agree. Pretty frikken self-serving of you to suggest Dean run for re-election. You just want Jan to have no opposition in the primary. Well, let me tell you something. While Jan may want no opposition, she’s not going to have a full term elected as governor. Terry Goddard will beat her to a pulp and the polls have been consistent in stating this. Granted, it’s early yet, but her performance this last year has been lackluster at best. That tells me she won’t do any better than the polls have indicated. If you want a Republican to hold the Governor’s office, you better vote for Dean. Otherwise it’s gonna be Gov. Goddard.

As for Dean on voting for/sponsoring these budget bills, I’m not sure of the legislative history. Yet I vaguely remember that Janet vetoed more conservative Republican budgets, right? So to get a budget, the Republican-controlled lege had to compromise. In addition, I’ve heard legislators state that they sometimes have to vote for crappy budgets to prevent even worse budgets from being enacted. My guess it that this is the case for these votes.

Dean has received Hero of the Taxpayer awards, warned of the impending red ink 7 mos ahead of time, and has earned about $1B investing taxpayer funds. Without Dean, the lege and Brewer would be an additional $1B in the hole and Brewer would be proposing even more hideous tax increases because she hasn’t got any better ideas than to raise taxes.

Let’s talk about Jan on spending. Jan’s line item vetoes INCREASED spending. The state had to have THREE special sessions to undo her ham-handed vetoes. She’s also had a YEAR to deal with the budget and hasn’t done a darned thing except INCREASE spending, then realize what a fool she’d been and scramble to undo her foolishness.

If this woman hadn’t inherited the office in the middle of a budget crisis, I KNOW she wouldn’t be cutting government. All this tripe about her rolling back goverment was FORCED on her by economic circumstances. What a poser she is.

Jan Brewer conservative? What a joke! Is that why she endorsed McCain? Is raising taxes? Buys into the global warming junk science with her initial support of the WSI? She flip-flopped on that BTW…some strong leader she is!

Your point was okay but you missed a key part-excessive spending set in place by Janet Napolitano AIDED BY DEAN MARTIN. Martin SPONSORED her most egregious budget bills.

Dean Martin, a name we know too well to trust.

She sells it as one cent, but when you do the math, it is 18% !!

Dean Martin is against this tax. He has been telling us to fix the underlying problems – the excesive spending set in place by Janet Napolitano.

When Brewer was Secretary of State, she was offered a chance to directly challenge Obama’s eligibility, but turned it down flat. She refused to even examine the issue despite the evidence that there may be a serious problem. That is not leadership. It is cowardice.

I have talked to Martin in person and heard him speak on these issues several times. His logic is sound, and his policies would be clear headed. No human is perfect, but this man would make an ideal governor. He will get my vote.

I’m not here to argue Brewer. She’s made the cuts she’s made and signed very Republican bills that never passed Napolitano. Her budget last year if you recall was signed off on by Norquist but torpedoed by a couple of crazies down there.

But okay-if Dean is such a “leader”, why hast he cone out with a plan yet. Where is his budget?

As for Dean Martin, the personal tragedy in his life last year – I can’t imagine how one picks up and runs for the top state office right after that. I could see him turn around and easily have run for re-election as State Treasurer, but not for Governor.

Plus, I’ve seen a young LD house candidate following him around. Is there love on the campaign trail?

Republican Professionals with JD Hayworth…comments off.

Hmmmm…..

Brewer is at least cutting government spending-not adding to it by leaps and bounds like Dean did here.

The votes are for four fiscal year budgets. Are you trying to say he didn’t take those votes?

The most telling thing about all of this is the fact that Martins only response is deflection. If that’s how this is going to go-old Deano will have flame out of this race before the Summer heat rolls in.

On a daily basis she offers proof of fiscal performance and frankly its shameful. Not only that, the progressive math in that Jan Brewer video is especially noteworthy. Dean Martin’s term as a Senator and Napolitano’s term as Governor overlapped a mere 3 fiscal years–not four! And how does one state senator vote 70 times in three years for one governor’s budget bills? Jan needs to retire Grant Woods and hire one of Obama’s Olympic number crunchers like the one who counted 30 jobs saved in AZ-CD15. Now there’s a champion.

Jan Brewer and John McCain both have a penchant for throwing rocks from their glass houses. Their campaign claims amount to lunacy along with the fact that they don’t have a clue that people actually know the truth about their records.