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RandySF

(57,601 posts)
Fri May 8, 2020, 02:53 AM May 2020

AZ-SEN: McSally to Ariz. cities: The cavalry isn't coming to help you

Martha McSally has the solution for Arizona cities that have seen a gaping hole blown in their budgets because of the coronavirus pandemic: Sit tight and hope that the federal government loosens the strings on a too-small pot of money that you can’t access.

What she definitely doesn’t have an appetite for, she told attendees of a virtual town hall hosted last month by the city of Surprise, is giving money directly to most Arizona cities to fill the massive deficits brought on by the economic catastrophe.

“On any (new) funding, I’m just going to be frank with you guys, OK? This is not the time for states and cities – unlike Arizona, unlike Surprise – who have mismanaged their budgets over the course of many decades, for them to use this as an opportunity to see you, as a taxpayer in Arizona, as a cash cow for them,” she said.

Instead, she pointed to the $150 billion that the CARES Act set aside for states and cities and patted herself on the back for a job well done.

“We’ve already given $150 billion in state stabilization money that three cities in Arizona got directly from the federal government – that’s Mesa, Tucson, and Phoenix, that have over 500,000 residents. The rest of the money will flow through the state to the cities,” she said at the April 29 event.

But that money comes with strict rules about how it can be spent, most specifically that it has to be used on coronavirus response efforts – and local governments are barred from using it to fill budget deficits.





https://www.azmirror.com/2020/05/07/mcsally-to-ariz-cities-the-cavalry-isnt-coming-to-help-you/

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AZ-SEN: McSally to Ariz. cities: The cavalry isn't coming to help you (Original Post) RandySF May 2020 OP
Meanwhile Senator Sinema has been working her butt off, being Mike 03 May 2020 #1
she's making it easy to run campaign ads against her, so keep talking McSally!! beachbumbob May 2020 #2

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
1. Meanwhile Senator Sinema has been working her butt off, being
Fri May 8, 2020, 05:58 AM
May 2020

so accessible, so helpful, designing her own Coronavirus help website, using both email and snail mail to reach and update people.

I live in a blood red district and over the past two months there have been more photographs and mentions of Kyrsten Sinema in our little local newspaper than McSally. I'll bet most of us forgot she was even alive.

F McSally!

Bye Bye in November! And go to hell while you're at it.

 

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
2. she's making it easy to run campaign ads against her, so keep talking McSally!!
Fri May 8, 2020, 05:59 AM
May 2020

next say old people HAVE to die, that will play well in Arizona as well!

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