Why not? She was trying to protect the border when she could have caved in.
OH.. no no no, My friend. Here’s the real story. The conservative legislature that she fought her entire term dropped HB1070 on her desk and it sat there... and it sat there while she threw up the trial balloons. The legislature, using some budget leverage, made her sign it. When she became the darling of the right, not only did she pretend that she was always for it, she never ONCE gave any credit to the author of the bill, Russell Pearce. She was not, and never has been, anything but a very moderate-liberal Republican.