Gov Brewer of AZ subject to recall innitiative

[BostonPirate]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/06/jan-brewer-recall_n_832003.html

Matt Jette, who recently became a registered Democrat, has been named the spokesman for the Committee to Recall Arizona Governor Jan Brewer.
The group is trying to collect thousands of signatures statewide by May 28 to force a recall election.
A Chandler woman, who is a Republican, launched the grassroots effort in January.
The group says the state is headed in the wrong direction and it disagrees with the Governor's cuts to health care and education.

This is a bipartisan effort underway and it focuses on ......

healthcare and education cuts.

I think america is getting quite enraged right now with republicans using deficit cutting as a means to get around legislation they don't like and social programs they politically disagree with.

 

[laikaNYC]

Brewer won 55% of the vote over the Democrat's 42% in November. Good luck with that recall effort. The Governor's plan would save the state half a BILLION dollars. I applaud her effort to try and reduce the state's deficit

 

[BostonPirate]

I don't believe there's anything in the budget that could be cut that wouldn't draw protests from someone, but at least in Arizona, Brewer seems to enjoy the confidence of a majority of the voters.

they will get the 43 thousand votes... whether they win at the polls remains to be seen.

Conventional wisdom is that this will fail.

How often has conventional wisdom been wrong? ALOT.

She will be wounded by this. People are going to have to vote based on her and her alone, not her opponent.

THey will have to decide if she is good for the state of AZ.

 

[CowboyBob]

The backlash on voting in these Republicans is spreading all across the country. Voters are now realizing their mistakes and want these people gone. This will be happening in more states.

 

[BostonPirate]

Nowhere has the national Medicaid crisis come under a harsher glare than in Arizona, where Brewer, 66, drew international condemnation for being the only governor to stop paying for certain organ transplants, including hearts and livers. Cutting Medicaid for about one in five Arizonans now on the rolls, as she proposes, would help save $541.5 million in the coming year

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...-slam-hospitals-as-patients-lose-funding.html

this is one large bit of what has them so pissed.

She is a one woman death panel who decided that the poor on medicaid are not going to be getting heart or liver transplants to save cash. She will also be kicking 20 percent of the disabled on meidicaid off the program with no coverage.

A pacemaker and defibrillator fitted to carpenter Douglas Gravagna's failing heart makes even rising from the couch of his Phoenix-valley home a battle.

But it is not congestive heart failure that is killing him, he says. It is a decision by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to stop funding for some organ transplants as the state struggles to reduce a yawning budget deficit.

"She's signing death warrants -- that's what she's doing. This is death for me," says Gravagna, 44, a heavy-set man who takes 14 medications to stay alive.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/06/arizona-budget-cuts-targe_n_831946.html

one hundred people are going to die because this lady thinks its better to kill them than to raise taxes on the wealthy.

 

[BostonPirate]

The backlash on voting in these Republicans is spreading all across the country. Voters are now realizing their mistakes and want these people gone. This will be happening in more states.

hardcore buyers remorse.

I think its safe to say the teabaggers have lost their mandate...lol

 

[BostonPirate]

if a majority still support the Republicans, can that argument really hold water?

I don't want to touch the Scott Walker clusterfuck, but other budget cut happy Republican governors that I can think of still enjoy a majority in their approval ratings.

national polls are pointing to the fact that the public is no longer with them...

From healthcare to union busting.

The republicans have lost the support of the majority of americans.

 

[Joshua_me]

The republicans have lost the support of the majority of americans.

Amen to that !

It's "buyer's remorse" of the highest order. Who would have thought that the Repub's could be the best thing to happen to the Democratic party is ages ?

As for Gov. Brewer, I saw an interview on Anderson Cooper 360 with a man in Arizona who was dying of a form of lung disease. Just days before his life-saving surgery, Ms. Brewer cut the medical funding that would have financed his procedure, essentially signing his death certificate.

He may already have died, I'm not sure.

Perhaps our laika would like to stand in front of his wife and children and "applaud her efforts".

 

[BostonPirate]

closing the loopholes so they pay ANYTHING at ALL would be a nice start.

After that? yes.

raise taxes. It is how america and its states pay bills. It needs more income.

when you either kill people or raise taxes? its time to raise taxes.

Brewer is in trouble, no doubt.

 

[White Eagle]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...-slam-hospitals-as-patients-lose-funding.html

this is one large bit of what has them so pissed.

She is a one woman death panel who decided that the poor on medicaid are not going to be getting heart or liver transplants to save cash. She will also be kicking 20 percent of the disabled on meidicaid off the program with no coverage.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/06/arizona-budget-cuts-targe_n_831946.html

one hundred people are going to die because this lady thinks its better to kill them than to raise taxes on the wealthy.

Thank God we're in Texas then. My partner is going through some of the same. As far as I know, Perry hasn't looked into this.

 

[CowboyBob]

if a majority still support the Republicans, can that argument really hold water?

I don't want to touch the Scott Walker clusterfuck, but other budget cut happy Republican governors that I can think of still enjoy a majority in their approval ratings.

Yeah loki, but isn't their support melting away like an ice cream cone on a July St Louis day?

Instead of cutting taxes for billionaires they need to be raised. Jan is allowing people to die off so they can buy another Bentley. There's so many things wrong with that.

 

[chrisrobin]

^^^Cuando? Cuando? Cuando?

 

[Kulindahr]

Two things:

Arizona is a place that does recalls far more than anywhere else. There was a recall effort on McCain once, even. So I take such efforts with a grain of salt.


Something I'm not seeing mentioned in all this is that many state governments grew at a pace far higher than that of the economy, back when the dot-com prosperity was floating a lot of boats. The interesting things there is that now that the economy has reduced revenues, the cuts being proposed are just what were to be predicted by a man who examined the growth of government in the British Empire -- those things which do not diminish the size of any official's 'kingdom'. He discovered, among other things, that when revenues rise, growth tends to be in bureaucracies where people measure status by how many people they manage, and that when revenues fall, those are the places cuts are most strongly resisted.

That's exactly what we see with the proposals to cut things that are essential -- but don't make any official's 'kingdom' shrink.