Posted on 05/29/2021 1:55:31 PM PDT by Mount Athos
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey vetoed 22 bills on Friday, including pro-election integrity legislation and a bill that would restrict critical race theory in the state. In a letter to Arizona legislative leaders, Ducey announced that he had vetoed 22 pieces of legislation, claiming that the “priority” for the state needs to be on “passing a budget for Arizonans.” With one month left in the fiscal year, the legislature still has yet to pass the budget. Ducey argued that even though some of the bills he vetoed were “good policy,” they “can wait.” Until the budget passes, he will not be signing any more bills that come onto his desk, he confirmed.
The bills that Ducey vetoed were of course written to cover a wide range of topics, with two rather significant defeats. HB 2792, sponsored by State Representative Jake Hoffman, was a crucial piece of election integrity legislation, which would ban the mass mailing of ballots to voters that did not request them. And as National File reported, SB 1074, also originally introduced by Hoffman, bans public entities from promoting or using taxpayer dollars to fund anti-white critical race theory training. (READ MORE: ARIZONA: State Senator Wendy Rogers Reports From Maricopa Audit Floor, Says Results Could Be ‘Legally Actionable’)
In a statement, House Speaker Rusty Bowers said that he was disappointed in the vetoes from Ducey. “Truthfully, I’m not happy about it,” Bowers said, but that it was a valuable “civics lesson reminder that it takes 31-16-1 to be successful here. Sometimes we forget about the one.” National File reported last December that Bowers in his position as Speaker refused to commit to a legislative hearing over the results of the 2020 presidential election, claiming that he couldn’t enforce the Constitution regarding presidential electors.
Those who stood for a more pro-America First message went far harder in slamming Ducey. Dr Kelli Ward, the chairman of the Arizona GOP, said it was “ridiculous” that Ducey vetoed the bills given that the legislative branch had passed them all after working “all session” on them. “This tyrannical approach is dangerous to what We The People in Arizona support,” she added. Kari Lake, a veteran journalist in the state who left Fox 10 in March over claims the media was unbalanced, said that “nobody wins” with Ducey’s actions, “especially the people of Arizona.”
State Representative Mark Finchem, who is currently running to replace Democrat Katie Hobbs as Arizona’s Secretary of State, told Steve Bannon’s War Room that Ducey’s behavior was basically a “manchild temper tantrum,” and that it is just retaliation for the Legislature refusing to pass “a budget that has so much pork in it, you’d think we were going to a barbecue.” Finchem said Ducey was “attempting to act as a petty dictator,” especially given that the Legislature still had 30 days to pass a budget. “For him to do something like this is beyond the pale,” he added, noting he would no longer defend Ducey from recall petitions.
Not an Arizona resident, but if I was I this would be enough for me to join/start a recall effort.
The biggest enemies to a free and fair election are Republicans. Think about that before you pull the lever next time.
So NOT teaching critical race blah-blah puts a DRAIN on the budget? Uh, sure...
So Douche Bag had time to veto, but not time to sign the bills because the budget couldn’t wait. AZ, get rid of this loser RINO. Maybe the best thing the state leglisature could do now is to sit on their hands, not pass a budget and shut down the government. It’s probably best to limit what Douche Bag can do by having the government closed.
That racist bitch hates your kids.
Wow! This guy ran as a conservative and all he has done is vote and veto conservative bills like a liberal. I agree he needs to be recalled ASAP!! This bastard ran as a Republican but I am beginning to suspect that he was a wolf in sheep conservative clothing! Recall!!!!
Ducey needs to be politically 86’d Drive him from office and keep him retired.
This useless repository (Ducey) needs to be purged.
Do not allow him to be elected to the US Senate.
Send him back to his ice cream parlours.
This treasonous bastard would meet a fitting end in earlier times.
Exactly my reaction.
With Republicans such as Douche, who needs Democrats?
“The biggest enemies to a free and fair election are Republicans. Think about that before you pull the lever next time.” Not true...there are some very despicable people who are at the top of the Republican party and they are part of the uniparty...and they need to be purged... However, every Democrat has bought into the socialist uniparty contract and they are full bore. If there is one Democrat who actually loves this country I would love to know their name. As far as I can tell every Democratic party member to a person hates the United States of America...thinks it is racist and that our liberties must be curtailed....If that is not the case name one. I am listening.
If that happened, wouldn’t Katie Hobbs take over since she is SOS?
Finchem got it right..it is a BIG BABY temper tantrum. Ducey has been a HUGE disappointment. Time to find out how much in bed he is with the CCP and Soros clan.
All righty then. What the legislature can do is indeed focus on the budget. Carefully. Very carefully. Hold long, detailed hearings. Send bills out of committee and then back to committee. Propose amendments to the budget bill. Retract amendments. Send the bills back to committee. Hold more hearings.
Sooner or later Ducey’s month will run out. Oops, no budget.
It’s like when airline pilots go over their preflight checklists multiple times and then go over them again.
I saw quite a few Cold Stone Creamery outlets when I was in China - so one can guess.
Cruz shoulda been showed the door after bashing Trump during the primaries so much and nearly lost to freaking Beto of all people.
Running away during the TX freeze sealed his, and the Republican party’s, fate. I can’t stand him.
Democrats = societal decay.
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