Brewer is a RINO....and not too bright. She pushed through the Medicaid expansion in Arizona with a few ‘moderate’ Republicans and all Democrat support. Then, referring to the Republican Party, she said ‘talk about the Party of no’. I HATE when Republicans use Democrat talking points against other Republicans. PS-McCain also uses Democrat talking point descriptions when referring to Conservative Republicans.
Let us not forget this is the same Governor that signed onto Obamacare and agreed to expand Medicaid and put an additional 300,000 residents on government’s free-cheese wagon which hard working taxpayers are having their paychecks confiscated to fund.
What she ignored was upholding the Constitution and a fundamental right of people being free to mutually agree in their contracts and associations.
JWK
The politics of the matter were such, that by implementing the provisions of this bill presented to the Governor’s office, a whole can of highly undesirable worms would be loosed upon the state. If the organizations to which it was directed are of truly American origin and principles, there would be little controversy.
But the canker buried in the middle this rose is the great and growing probability that the “freedom of association” would almost immediately be abused, and certain ideologies pretending to be a “religion” can turn this around upon the larger proportion of the population, and eventually deem the greater number to be the villains of the piece.
The bill was perhaps not as well constructed as it may have been, and was far too broad in its application. The owner of any business that engages in commerce with the general population has by tradition, the right to eject any trouble maker by the means at hand, using commensurate force to assure that expulsion. This right has been severely eroded by what may be described as using Political Correctness as a kind of “urban guerrilla” tactic, to force and compel the holder of property rights to conform to, at least accept, a standard of conduct altogether contrary to his personal beliefs.
Political Correctness is one of the more pernicious ills that has been visited upon the present day. There are so many “protected classes” that even well-deserved criticism is made into an insult of some kind, and the most boorish of behavior is supposed to be above retaliation.
Governor Brewer may have done the right thing in vetoing this bill, but not necessarily for the right reasons. Because of the failure to explain possible consequences, she appears to have buckled under pressure, and therefore is left looking irresolute and amenable to “persuasion”.