Brewer fought the Pubbie controlled legislature for months — they wanted to hold the line on spending. And Brewer was talking like a Democrat — “We’ve cut all we can cut, can’t cut anymore, yada yada.” She wanted the legislature to raise the state sales tax so she wouldn’t have to lay off state workers, the legislature refused, headed up by Russell Pearce, who engineered the immigration bill that Brewer gets all the credit for. Finally at an impasse, they compromised by putting it to a public vote. The Yes side had 2.3 million dollars to promote it, and the No side and nothing to spend. It unfortunately passed 2 to 1, so the state is saddled with an additional 1% sales tax for 3 years because Brewer wouldn’t lay anyone off. So as usual, gubmint gets larger and the private sector shrinks.
Brewer did NOT want to sign the controversial immigration bill into law. She wanted to let it go into law w/o her signature, but she has the conservative State Treasurer challenging her in the Primary, so she signed it because of that.
So bottom line, she has been doing the right thing on immigration, but previous to this she was a RINO, who was thrust into the Guv’s office by default from the SOS position when Big Sis left the state. Credit where credit is due to her for doing right on this issue, but IMHO she can not be trusted — I think she will eventually revert back to being a RINO, plus now she is drunk with national fame, IMHO, which could be a dangerous thing.
Brewer is NOT national VP material. Forget that.
I agree 100% with what she's doing with regards to the battle against illegal immigration. And in this instance, I'm grateful she has the huevos to stand up for Arizona. But she'll turn RINO and stab conservatives in the back in a heartbeat... very McCain-like in that respect.
I don't trust any of them, to tell you the truth.