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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP Governor Shuts Down Lawmaking Until Her Party Agrees To Expand Medicaid
GOP Governor Shuts Down Lawmaking Until Her Party Agrees To Expand Medicaid
By Sy Mukherjee
Gov. Jan Brewer (R-AZ) has a message for her party: expand Medicaid or else.
The combative GOP governor is sticking by a threat she made to veto all legislation until lawmakers resolve the 2014 state budget and pass Obamacares Medicaid expansion. On Thursday, Brewer proved that wasnt just talk, vetoing five bills sent to her desk in quick succession.
I warned that I would not sign additional measures into law until we see resolution of the two most pressing issues facing us: adoption of a fiscal 2014 state budget and plan for Medicaid, wrote Brewer in her veto message. It is disappointing I must demonstrate the moratorium was not an idle threat.
Arizona officials only have five weeks before reaching the constitutional deadline for passing a budget. Last Thursday, six Republican state senators joined a unified Democratic caucus to pass a Medicaid expansion bill but efforts have been gummed up in the state House since then...She has been touring the Grand Canyon State to shore up support for the expansion and put pressure on reticent lawmakers in her own party.
Some Republicans opposed to the expansion have warned of dire political consequences for lawmakers who buck the traditional conservative opposition to Medicaid. In a letter to Republican legislators, the chairman of the Maricopa County Republican Committee wrote of the state senators who voted for expansion, Their egregious actions will have serious consequences. Their political careers are all but over and their days numbered. He referred to Brewer as a rogue governor in the same statement.
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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/24/2059031/gop-governor-veto-legislation-medicaid/
By Sy Mukherjee
Gov. Jan Brewer (R-AZ) has a message for her party: expand Medicaid or else.
The combative GOP governor is sticking by a threat she made to veto all legislation until lawmakers resolve the 2014 state budget and pass Obamacares Medicaid expansion. On Thursday, Brewer proved that wasnt just talk, vetoing five bills sent to her desk in quick succession.
I warned that I would not sign additional measures into law until we see resolution of the two most pressing issues facing us: adoption of a fiscal 2014 state budget and plan for Medicaid, wrote Brewer in her veto message. It is disappointing I must demonstrate the moratorium was not an idle threat.
Arizona officials only have five weeks before reaching the constitutional deadline for passing a budget. Last Thursday, six Republican state senators joined a unified Democratic caucus to pass a Medicaid expansion bill but efforts have been gummed up in the state House since then...She has been touring the Grand Canyon State to shore up support for the expansion and put pressure on reticent lawmakers in her own party.
Some Republicans opposed to the expansion have warned of dire political consequences for lawmakers who buck the traditional conservative opposition to Medicaid. In a letter to Republican legislators, the chairman of the Maricopa County Republican Committee wrote of the state senators who voted for expansion, Their egregious actions will have serious consequences. Their political careers are all but over and their days numbered. He referred to Brewer as a rogue governor in the same statement.
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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/24/2059031/gop-governor-veto-legislation-medicaid/
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GOP Governor Shuts Down Lawmaking Until Her Party Agrees To Expand Medicaid (Original Post)
ProSense
May 2013
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Implying that most repuke legislators in AZ are to the right of the Wicked Witch of the Southwest.
KamaAina
May 2013
#3
No. Implying Brewer is the only Republican in AZ capable of 3rd grade arithmetic.
BlueStreak
May 2013
#6
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)1. Maybe she could soothe her bitten ass with some Tea Party tea.
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)2. That woman has some chutzpah!! n/t
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)3. Implying that most repuke legislators in AZ are to the right of the Wicked Witch of the Southwest.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)6. No. Implying Brewer is the only Republican in AZ capable of 3rd grade arithmetic.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)9. Who woulda thunk? nt
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)4. THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!!!
HOW DARE SHE GO AGAINST THE PARTY??????!!!!!!!!!!
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)5. Did hell just freeze over?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)7. Looks that way
freshwest
(53,661 posts)8. Yep. And it won't thaw out any time soon: