The Arizona Legislature has reached Sine Die and concluded its work for the year.
The big story of the session was undoubtedly the Medicaid expansion that Gov. Jan Brewer pushed through yesterday. Also yesterday: A bill that would overhaul election law, including new restrictions on the early-voting, passed the Legislature after initially failing.
We’ll have more reaction and unpacking of the session over the next week.
This article appears in Jun 13-19, 2013.
That was one of the saddest displays of legislators behaving poorly ever witnessed by any constituency in the history of this country. The leaders of both houses should resign in shame.