On Friday’s AZ Illustrated Politics: Democratic gubernatorial candidate Fred DuVal said lawmakers earned between a D (for “disappointing”) and F (for “failure”) for recently completed legislative session. DuVal called for more dollars for education and child-welfare programs; said he was opposed to expanding programs that provide public dollars for private schools; criticized lawmakers for passing anti-gay and anti-abortion legislation; and promised to reverse Gov. Jan Brewer’s push to deny driver’s licenses and in-state tuition for DREAM Act kids.
Republican National Committeeman Bruce Ash and Pima County Democratic Party chairman Don Jorgensen tackled immigration issues, the latest skirmish over equal pay in the race between Congressman Ron Barber and Republican challenger Martha McSally, and the legislative session.
This article appears in May 1-7, 2014.
I hope Mr. Duval didn’t give his D and F grades to all legislators, just to the extremist Republicans who don’t care what the people really think think about the importance of funding education, and many other issues. All the Democratic legislators fought valiantly against the measures that go against what is best for the majority of the people and their needs. It was not Democrats who voted for the crazy Armageddon bill, diverting money from public schools to private, and voted against women, etc. etc.
Mr. Duvall makes some colorful statements on the past legislature. He may even be correct, but who is listening? Too bad he hasn’t held elective office before, at least going through a campaign, even in a distant Legislative District his electability would have been tested. Not that he hasn’t held some important appointed positions, but right out of the box to run for Governor?
He has a long way to go and I don’t see any traction yet. Even if someone of substance contested the Primary it would benefit him. I don’t know what kind of press he is getting in other areas of the state, but this heavy Democrat area has read absolutely nothing about him in the Jim Click Shopping News, in some circles called the Arizona Daily Star.
He has a long way to go, and a few weak attacks on the wackos running the Legislature with no press coverage won’t make it.
Given the choice, if you can call it a choice, he has my vote over Senator Al Melvin, the darling of the tea party running for Governor, or so he claims. Yikes, thinking about the race between Captain Nitro and Fred Duvall, I am all of the sudden getting exciting about voting for Duval.
Both political parties and their drooling blind non thinking followers (one side far more than the other) are the problem. We have allowed these politicians to get away with whatever they want because we keep electing the same corrupt and inept career politicians because the simple minded keep thinking that these same corrupt and inept politicians will someday fulfill at least one political promise. Give all politicians a boot in the ass after their first term if they fall into the standard of, “I’ can do what I want, my constituents be damned”. We as a nation can no longer afford for our elected officials to pass laws in which they are exempt, but we must obey, we can no longer afford to elect these criminals to become instant millionaires on the tit of the taxpayer.
Report card:
Serving their NRA masters–A+
Following the wishes of the Ayatollah Cathi Herrod and her CAP (Christians Against Progress)–A+
Creating legislation to solve non-existent problems–A+
Proposing asinine anti federal legislation–A+
Educating and protecting Arizona’s children–F-
Creating GOOD jobs–F-
And finally..Being an embarrassment(along with Stinky Finger Jan)……….. Is their a higher grade than A+?
Fred Duvall is a very smart guy. That will probably be held against him in a state that is infamous for electing the intellectually challenged. Terry Goddard a Harvard graduate lost to a beauty school dropout aka Jan Brewer. It is a slim chance that Arizona could be dragged into the modern world of enlightened thought but my vote goes to the smart one