{"id":20499,"date":"2010-09-20T04:09:18","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T08:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20499"},"modified":"2010-09-20T04:09:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T08:09:18","slug":"the-truth-about-jan-brewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20499","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About Jan Brewer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Operator Dan: I am going to try and write more often about Arizona politics, mostly because we have been in the national news so much lately. Also, when the lamestream media discusses politics in my state, they get so many things wrong it makes you wonder if they could even find Arizona on the map. <\/em><\/p>\n

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These days, there isn’t a week that goes by that there isn’t a major news story about my home state of Arizona. From SB 1070<\/a> to a new federal lawsuit against the state (the newest being this absurdity<\/a>), Arizona has emerged as the primary battleground over almost every hot button issue this election year. \u00a0As a result, our governor Jan Brewer (R) has become a national figure and a hero for many conservatives around the country, primarily because she signed SB 1070 into law. Its also appears that despite a terrible debate performance<\/a> that Governor Brewer will utterly crush he Democratic opponent Terry Goddard <\/a> by upwards of 15-2o points.<\/p>\n

However, Jan Brewer is neither a solid conservative nor someone Republicans should hold up as one of the future leaders of the party. This is something that too many Republicans on the national level have ignored when lauding her for her support of SB1070.<\/p>\n

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In the early spring before the signing of SB1070, Jan Brewer was pretty much politically dead. Most polls at the time had her not even winning her primary, much less the election against Terry Goddard. This was not without good reason.<\/p>\n

In order to balance the budget and prevent further cuts to state services, Brewer decided to support an 18 percent sales tax hike to specifically fund education and certain emergency services. Many conservatives like State Treasurer Dean Martin<\/a> (who first ran against her in the primary and was leading her for awhile)\u00a0advocated using two state funds that had literally hundreds of millions of dollars sitting in them to balance the budget and avoid a tax increase. Many conservatives were also arguing that the budget crisis created a chance for Republicans to make serious reforms to Arizona’s state government that the Right had been advocating for years. However, Brewer stubbornly pushed forward with the tax hike, which was support to go to the voters in May 2010. This killed support for Brewer among many Arizona Republicans and rightly so. (On a side note, the sales tax increase did not balance the budget and now there is discussion of passing another one…great its not like we have the second highest poverty rate<\/a> in the country right now).<\/p>\n

Then came the SB1070 freight train. Brewer never openly supported the bill when it was working its way through the legislature. She only announced her support of the bill shortly before she signed it and this is now clearly a result of very meticulous political calculation. Brewer’s signing of SB1070 changed politics in Arizona overnight. The passage of Prop 100 which raised the sales tax rate by 1 percent (which overall is an 18 percent increase) two weeks later was barely news, even in Arizona. Suddenly, Brewer was a hero and by June two of her strongest primary opponents had “suspended” their campaigns. She easily won the Republican Primary on August 24th and will probably will the general election November 2nd.<\/p>\n

My problem with Brewer is that conservative pundits like Sean Hannity, Limbaugh, and even O’Reilly hold this woman up as some type of conservative hero simply based on one issue. A closer examination of her record shows otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Operator Dan: I am going to try and write more often about Arizona politics, mostly because … The Truth About Jan Brewer<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":607,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/607"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}