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AZ’s Brewer Threatens Tea Party Over Medicaid Expansion, Vetoes Their Pet Project And 4 Other Bills

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Sunday, May 26, 2013 7:56 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Although her tactics are those of a REAL "tyrant" (unlike how that word is tossed around by the right), and of course recognizing it's about the money, not the moral issue of covering the uninsured, it appears Brewer is actually willing to go to bat to do the PEOPLE'S bidding for a change:
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Arizona’s conservative GOP lawmakers are getting a taste of their own medicine as fellow-bully, Governor Jan Brewer, flexes her muscles in their direction for a change. After refusing to participate in setting up a state health insurance exchange, Brewer has done an about-face of sorts in eagerly embracing Medicaid expansion. It’s all about the money, of course, but diehard conservatives would shoot the state in the financial foot rather than cooperate with the Obama administration. Brewer, however, is refusing to sign any of the legislature’s bills into law until she gets her way on both Medicaid expansion and a completed state budget for 2014. On Friday, she vetoed five bills to punctuate her position.

One of the vetoed bills Brewer was a pet project of Tea Party conservatives: HB 1178, designed to allow churches and businesses to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation while claiming they are exercising ‘religious freedom.’ In all five veto letters, addressed to Senate President Andy Biggs, R-Gilbert, the governor wrote:

“It is disappointing I must demonstrate the moratorium was not an idle threat. I respectfully ask that legislators join me to resolve our budgetary and health care challenges. Once these primary issues are behind us, I am happy to once again consider unrelated legislation.”

Not only are Republican lawmakers at odds with each other, those who side—or might side–with Governor Brewer are receiving death threats from their more rabid right-wing constituents. According to the Arizona Republic, Speaker Tobin and eight other lawmakers received an email that began:
“Please kill SB1492, the Medicaid Expansion Act.”

It then outlines a defense for shooting someone, while quoting the Second Amendment. Other messages are abusive and threatening. The hostility shows no sign of abating. In an attack on the six Republican senators who voted for Medicaid expansion, the chairman of the Maricopa County Republican Party, A.J. LaFaro penned his own threat in an open letter to lawmakers, writing:

“Their egregious actions will have serious consequences. Their political careers are all but over and their days are numbered.”

Unfazed, and to their credit, the six senators have replied that the favorable feedback for their vote on expansion far exceeds the negative. The positive comments received by Senate Majority Leader John McComish, R-Phoenix, outnumber the negative by “20 to 1.”

It’s heartening for the citizens of Arizona to see that some in the Republican Party are actually ready to do the people’s business. As Governor Brewer pointed out on her official website:

“The Affordable Care Act remains the law of the land. Now, our State’s elected leaders have a duty to do what’s best for Arizona. That’s why Governor Brewer has crafted a conservative plan that … upholds the will of Arizonans, who’ve twice voted to expand Medicaid … pumps billions of dollars into our economy … protects hospitals … and keeps Arizona tax dollars in Arizona.” http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/26/arizona-governor-brewer-medica
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The example shows two things: How far the right wing is willing to go to block Obama over anything and everything, even when it's for the good of the people they supposedly represent, and how far people like Brewer are quite content to wield their power when it's something THEY want.

Neither of those is particularly encouraging, but hopefully at least this little war will end up BENEFITING the people of Arizona, however it gets there.

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