On Arizona Illustrated’s Political Roundtable this week: Tucson Mayor Jonthan Rothschild stops by to talk about the proposed road bonds, annexation, and downtown. Then Pima County Democratic Party chairman Jeff Rogers, Pima County Republican Party chairwoman Carolyn Cox and former state lawmaker Pete Hershberger talk about the week in politics. We tackle the proposed statewide sales-tax proposition, weigh the proposed jungle primary prop, kick around education funding, dig into whether the state’s budget surplus means Arizona is on solid financial ground and more.
This article appears in Jul 26 – Aug 1, 2012.
Bennett and other republicans want to kill public education. Let the people vote on the funding education. The Legislature continues to promote an image of a really lousy society similar to a 3rd world. With funding levels at the bottom, it is very hard to attract business to Arizona, they cant bring the top talent to a state that funds eduction poorly. The decision makers at the eastern money centers will not invest due to the difficultly to bring the bright young talent to a backward place.
WE aint gonna vote Yes on any bonds until the “$1 rents and other giveaways like Art” cease.
This is NOT a museum or a richie rich neighborhood, stop funding bull and start fixing the roads and cleaning up the graffiti!