Update from the special session at the Arizona Legislature: Lawmakers from both parties are putting together amendments on the state budget plan and Medicaid expansion and are expected to emerge from their recess later this afternoon. Expect a late night at the Capitol: The current plan calls for the legislation to get final approval sometime after midnight tonight.

UPDATE: Sen. Steve Farley tells The Range that the House will likely wrap the legislation up shortly after midnight but the Senate is expected to take a final vote sometime around mid-morning tomorrow.

Former state lawmaker Frank Antenori tells The Range today that he’s delighted by Brewer’s decision to call a special session because it has sparked outrage among conservative activists.

“The base is furious. Furious!” Anentori said today. “This is awesome. Awesome! She so overplayed her hand.”

Antenori expects the budget and Medicaid-expansion package will be passed shortly in the wee hours of Thursday and he hopes to get his referendum to repeal the Medicaid expansion filed by Friday, depending on how the events of the next few days play out.

Antenori says that after the call for the special session went out yesterday, his group got almost 250 new volunteers.

“People were calling and emailing and asking me what they could do to help,” Antenori said.

This article appears in Jun 6-12, 2013.

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9 replies on “Antenori on Special Session: “The Base Is Furious. This Is Awesome!””

  2. Doesn’t he have any real work to do at his job? He is the slimeball, who is going to be paying for his referendum?

  3. I’m wondering who is going to fund the court fight to get said referendum on the ballot since budget bills are not subject to referendum.

  4. Steve, there are differing opinions on whether the expansion will be subject to referendum, but I suppose some of it may depend on what the final legislation looks like.

    Attorney Jeff Rogers, the former chair of the Pima County Democratic Party, is among those who think a referendum is possible.

    http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/signatu…

  5. Frank, there’s a reason you weren’t re-elected…get it?

    And by the way.. your Tony Soprano act just plays out like you’re a wannabee…

    Fire up the your base, so people will know who they are, and avoid them at all costs…

  6. Let me think about this. Medicaid expansion in AZ will increase employment in the medical fields. The hospitals in AZ will be paid thru Medicaid for more of their low income patients. Following our current laws, the hospitals must treat all patients, whether they can pay or not. More low income residents will be able to receive preventive medical care. Voting in the Medicaid expansion will mean AZ receives $8B total from the federal government, covering AZ’s additional Medicaid costs.

    Sounds like it’s a good idea to vote for medicaid expansion. In fact, I don’t see why any logical person would vote against it.

  7. Nearly every time Frantic Frank Rantenori opens his mouth he exposes more than his dental work. He makes clear his lack of respect for any and all who may disagree with him, his overweening ambition and his forgetfulness of what has got him to his present position of eminence: his 20 years of living in a socialist society, aka the US Army, followed dy 9 years of employment by a government contractor. C’mon Frank,lighten up.

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