Posted on 05/15/2010 6:57:27 PM PDT by marktwain
On Tuesday, May 11, 2010, Governor Brewer signed HB 2725, an education omnibus bill, which contained technical changes improving the state’s high-school marksmanship law, The Arizona Gun Safety Program.
The changes make the classes easier to organize and deliver. Any school district or charter school in the state is authorized to teach the elective one-credit class, which includes lessons in firearm safety, the constitutional roots of the Second Amendment, the role of firearms in preserving peace and freedom and the history and operation of firearms and marksmanship. To pass the course students must get practice time at a shooting range, including use of clay targets, and safely discharge firearms.
Previously, instructors had to be certified by the Arizona Game and Fish Dept., or a national association of firearms owners, leading to some confusion and bottlenecks. Under the new changes, "A person who is currently certified as a firearms safety instructor by the Arizona Game and Fish Department, the National Rifle Association, a federal, state or local law enforcement agency, a branch of the United States military, a federal agency, the Reserve Officer Training Corps, the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps or the Civilian Marksmanship Program is qualified to teach the Arizona Gun Safety Program course."
Other changes make it clear that real firearms must be used, preventing some efforts to substitute non-guns such as air rifles or laser toys in the course. Non-guns may still be used as part of the training, but only use of real firearms qualifies for completing the course requirements. The bill also clarifies that completion of the course earns one credit toward a high school diploma. The changes are found on pages 52 and 53 of HB 2725: http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/hb2725s.pdf .END_STATUTE
The effective date of HB 2725 is July 29, 2010. Kudos to Alan Korwin (http://www.gunlaws.com/) for pushing for these improvements.
Brewer is on a roll!
I’m liking this governor more and more. Some on here have said she’s a rino. I know very little about her though.
That’s it...I’m moving to Arizona. It’s like an island in a sea of fog.
Az. is on a roll. Maybe next we'll threaten to stop sending our tax payments in to DC til they start doing what they're being hired to do.
I hate her, but not (solely) because she’s a rino. When it was announced she was going to take over as governor, she was at a dinner. My father was there, too. While there, she gave a speech, refused to answer questions because she had no time, sat down, ate, and left.
But that all being said, this would’ve been cool to take in school. Oh well.
Looks like the Sheriff’s consideration to run for governor is causing Brewner to govern as a conservative.
She sure is. Maybe she can call Gov. Perry and have a talk with him.
Now who would you want to lead our country. A man and/or woman like Brewer, Christie, Palin, DeMint who are actually doing something for the country and its people
or
Obama, a man who hates America with all his heart and is a flunky to people who hate America will all their hearts and rejoice in the destruction of her?
I think the choice is easy.
I’m getting a tingle up my leg just thinking of this paradise called Arizona..
Sheriff Joe announced a week or two ago that he was NOT going to run for Gov. He said he felt his current job was too important and more satisfying [paraphrasing].
What a bizarre comment. This Governor has shown the courage to do something that few in the nation have, and you call her a RINO?
Please substantiate the charge.
Works for us.
I’m not fully convinced she’s shown courage, just good election year politicking. She’s overall incompetent. For the most part, there’s her view on taxes. Right around the time when she took over, she started shutting down the government on Fridays and stopped road construction to “close the gap.” Had that been solely the case, that wouldn’t be a bad thing, however she was also demanding a 1% sales tax increase. Now she’s supporting the ballot initiative Proposition 100 which will raise sales taxes. And if you’re interested, here’s a “pleasant” exchange between Brewer and someone who is against sales tax increase http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1cwXbKkVs4
As well, the endorsement of John McCain. There’s more, but that’s all I can remember off the top of my head.
In the end, there’s a reason she’s being challenged by a few others who could be considered conservative, as opposed to her.
I’m not in AZ, but it works for me too. It’s amazing what election pressures can do to get politician right with the people.
Sure hope it keeps, because what she has done is absolutely stunning. Finally, the focus is on illegals, something we’ve wanted for more than a decade.
Looks like she’s a keeper!
So, Governor Brewer shut down the government one day a week, stopped road construction, and supports a 1% increase in the sales (consumption instead of income) tax, and somehow that’s not the conservative way to solve a budget shortfall in your mind?
What on earth do you think tough conservative leadership is, if not that?
Maybe setting about by doing a complete economic overhaul before saying taxes are needed to be raised, but in this day and age, maybe that’s just a pipe dream. Here in Arizona, there’s a stretch of Highway between Phoenix and Flagstaff, basically, called I-17. It’s a 4 lane, each way, highway. A few years ago construction started, finally finished. The end total was billions. If I’m correct, one exit, the bridge, and all, was $2 billion. That could’ve had better management and should’ve. It was still under construction when she took over, but that wasn’t looked at, taxes were.
Then there’s the famous AHCCCS. It’s Arizona’s Medicaid. How flawed is it? It will pay for people’s pain killers, but it won’t pay for antibiotics and when people are going there depending on it, they’re only bound to come back if they can’t afford the antibiotics to go along with the surgery that the state just paid for. I’m not praising the system, I’m hardly a supporter of it, however what’s the benefit to a system if it’s so ridiculous that the end result is putting said person back in the hospital?
In Arizona, money is wasted. Those are only 2 of the problems I know of off the top of my head. I do know AHCCCS is going to be cut by a lot, but there are better ways to deal with it all than going after taxes first and foremost, especially when the economy is in the shape that it is.
Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien.
Nicely put!
From where I sit, Governor Brewer exercised her constitutional control over Arizona's fiscal woes in about the only way a Governor can - she cut spending by cutting back government operating hours.
Increasing the state sales tax by 1% is a tax on consumption, not production, which is the least destructive revenue raising thing she could have done to help close your state's budget gap.
She could have just as easily pushed for an increase in taxes related to real property, or actual wealth creation (production), which would have been much worse, and ultimately destructive to the Arizona economy. That's the statist-liberal path, which she didn't take. That shows her to be a conservative Governor, in my opinion.
As you say, the I-17 road construction was already underway when she took office. Those contracts were obviously signed by the previous administration, so it appears (on the surface, at least) that Governor Brewer shouldn't be made to take the blame for those costs.
Basically, I think you leveled the charge of RINO at her in error. I don't see it. She's been anything BUT a RINO since Arizona started making headlines some weeks ago.
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