by David Safier
This from Tucson Weekly’s article, Going for Broke. Governor Napolitano has laid out her proposal for next year’s state budget, which involves borrowing money for school construction and going into the state’s rainy day fund. Her ideas have been in the papers for weeks, so that’s not news. Here is the only Republican proposal so far, according to the article:
The GOP's only public counterproposal came from Rep. Russell Pearce, the head of the House Appropriations Committee, and Sen. Bob Burns, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. They want to slash university spending and health-care programs for kids, suspend school construction, eliminate dental coverage for low-income Arizonans and cut back on K-12 spending. That plan is a nonstarter even among other members of the GOP caucus.
It sounds like Pearce and his anti-public-school buddies are positively salivating over the economic downturn. To paraphrase Club for Growth’s Grover Norquist, they would love to shrink school spending -- and state health care -- to the size where they can drown both services in a bathtub.
Add this to SB1002, that would permanently repeal a state property tax that has been temporarily suspended. The tax funds schools, folks. Doesn’t it sound like, if we have to cut school funding because of budget shortfalls, we need that money again? Unless, of course, you’re already in the process of filling that bathtub with water.
I promised only to blog about education, but while I’m talking about the Republican legislators, I can’t resist mentioning SCM 1002. Accoring to the Weekly, it “asks Congress to repeal the 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and return to a system in which the Arizona Legislature would appoint U.S. senators rather than having them elected by Arizona voters.”
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, your Republican Legislators!
This Educated IDIOT named David and his friends have gotten 6 more Kids killed on our College Campusses through IGNORANCE and STUPIDITY of a NO CARRY LAW ON SCHOOL CAMPUSESES "EXCEPT FOR THE SHOOTER!!"
GET OUT OF HERE DAVID!!!!
Posted by: Dwight D. Leister:Chair | February 15, 2008 at 10:24 AM
LOOK DAVID!!
LET ME EDUCATE YOU ON MY PROPERTY TAXES AND THOSE OF LEGAL ARIZONA TAXPAYERS!
THE ARIZONA TAX REVOLT AND PRO 105 WILL FREEZE PROPERTY TAXES IN ARIZONA TO DRIVE IT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULL THAT "WE THE PROPERTY TAXPAYERS OF ARIZONA ARE FED UP WITH YOU AND YOUR ILLEGAL MEXICAN NATIONALS FREE LUNCH IN OUR SCHOLLS AT MY EXPENSE!!
You will now have to find some other maeans to pay (3) Three Million for LA RAZA STUDIES in TUSD SCHOOLS:IDIOT!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Dwight D. Leister:Chair | February 15, 2008 at 10:29 AM
Dwight, you are skating very close to the edge. Your comments are intolerably rude. If I see any more posts like those on this and the last post, I am going to make the readers here very happy by banning you. In fact, I'm tempted to hold a reader poll to see if you should be voted off the island.
Posted by: Michael Bryan | February 15, 2008 at 02:29 PM
Hold a reader poll TODAY!
Posted by: Mariana | February 16, 2008 at 09:41 PM