Personally, I’ve met her and don’t like her very much. She’s getting pressure from the right for the Primary election, and her feet are being held to the fire. While I’m glad she’s doing the right thing, I don’t think she wants to.
It doesn’t matter, as long as the correct things are being done for the state. The old adage, “Gotta watch ‘em every minute” applies.
She always seemed like a standard AZ Republican woman to me, sorta center right with social liberalism. She did, after all, go all out for McCain.
But you say that Russ Pearce and the legislature are pushing her?
She must want to be the elected governor real real bad.
What's the push? She has a few social spending programs that I know she wants to protect. Is that the real motivation?
In any event, whatever the motivation, she's gone down a path that has set the entire country on a path back towards sanity. No longer can RINO's scream that immigration is a non-starter issue. The poll numbers in favor of all this are stratospheric, which is something the idiot RINO's haven't ever seen.
You still have got to give credit where credit is due. In these times, Brewer is acting heroically. To second-guess her motivations is a bit petty.
She's taken enormous heat for it all and shown that she can checkmate a seedy SOB like Terry Goddard when he tries to use the same stunt that was used in California against 187: collusion with the opponents of the law he swore to uphold.
Had Gray Davis done his job in 1998, he would not have become the first recalled Governor in California history.
If Goddard had been let loose to do his dirty deeds - and he has an obvious conflict of interest from the start that should have caused him to recuse himself - Brewer would had have at least the cover that she didn't tell him to do it.
But she went him one better. She cut him off, which is really unprecedented, even in Arizona.
GOP? How do you know? This is suppose to make her less appealing?
I feel she is really trying to save her state rather than this being just a political move.