Discussion: Ducey, Garcia Take Their Places For Arizona Gubernatorial Battle This Fall

Well, Señor Haramina, if you’ve been in Arizona for 47 years and still don’t know “who the best person is” to vote for, you’re clearly an imbecil.

Maybe you can be on the new Border Strike Force. Pendejo.

Border Strike Force sure sounds like a militarized cop force to me. It’s rather obvious where the money for education went. I am a long time resident of Tucson And I attended and then worked for many years at the University of Arizona. In 1968 (my first year there) the state provided around 45% of the Unversitiy’s operating budget as our state Constitution stipulated the state has the burden for education. The GOP acquired majorities in both state chambers in 1969. Since then very steadily year after year the funding dropped. Each year the mantra was “It’s just a one year cut, deal with it”. In 2012, the year I retired the state’s part stood at under 7% of the school’s operating budget … That is no one off. That’s a trend.
Education is a way out of poverty. The state would do well to look after the thing that gives a person the chance to have a better life. Yeah a border strike force sounds impressive and authoritarian but it will not stop smuggling any more than Nixon did when he completely shut the border down in 1974 for “Operation Intercept” that was supposed to end marijuana smuggling.
Ducey is no centrist GOPer. He’s a hard line trump follower. There is no way in hell that he is good for my state. I would have preferred to vote in November for Steve Farley but the voters have decided that Mr Garcia is the choice. It would be good for Arizona if he can win but Ducey is rolling in Koch money.

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Stats from SoS office say only 25% of registered voters bothered to exercise the franchise. Granted it’s a primary. However, that’s no excuse.
I am beginning to believe that the non-voters deserve what they get, good and hard.

Except it grags along the voters as well.

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