It sounds like you did yourselves proud with your new governor. She just came out of her corner swinging.
She has a record of doing that. A gun-toting security guard at 17, a Republican district attorney in a heavily Democratic county, many successful prosecutions of drug criminals, and of perps who committed sex crimes against women and children. Her husband is under-sheriff for Dona Ana County (will resign with her becoming governor). She is one tough customer.