Arizona’s New Governor Wants To Gut Education, Fund Private Prisons Instead

[KamaAina]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/19/doug-ducey-seeks-to-gut-funding/

I wanted to give Arizona’s new governor a chance. I wasn’t going to be like the Republicans, who hoped President Obama would fail even before he became president. However, the Governor’s first budget proposal has me feeling extremely uneasy.

Unveiled on Friday, the state’s $1.5 billion shortfall (left from the “fiscally conservative” Jan Brewer) will be paid for by clawing into the “rainy day fund” with a collection of spending cuts totaling $384 million, and gobbling up over $300 million from agency accounts....

Ah, yes, cutting from education in one of the worst states for education while giving millions to private prisons is “the reality of spending discipline.” Ducey also claimed that this budget “focuses on classrooms first.” Yes, because cheating teachers and schools out of $257 million year really demonstrates a focus on the classrooms.

Arizona’s Senate Minority Leader Katie Hobbs tore into the governor’s budget proposal, saying, “And while his budget takes from our schools and universities, forcing tuition raises on Arizona’s middle class, it gives away more than $100 million to private prisons. Is this what Gov. Ducey meant when he closed his State of the State address by saying, ‘Let’s give our best for Arizona’?”

Ah yes, the "rainy day fund". Just like the one that Jerry Brown (D-In The '70s, Anyway) just got set up here in CA through Prop 2.

Oh, they left out the 'n' in 'Duncey'.

[misterhighwasted]

1. GoP & Corporations don't want educated workers. They want slave labor.

What the prison system is for in the For-Profit Corporate World

[Politicalboi]

2. And he's going to raise registration fees

http://www.kpho.com/story/27906929/new-arizona-tax-on-vehicles

I feel for the Dem's in that state, but I hope this makes some GOPer's into Dem's next time.

[KamaAina]

3. That's what got Gray Davis recalled out here

and led to the rise of Ahh-nuld.