Comments on: Supermajority GOP chalked up big gains, but not with immigration, guns and anti-union bills  http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/05/25/supermajority-gop-chalked-up-big-gains-but-not-with-immigration-guns-and-anti-union-bills/ Your Inside Track to Arizona Politics Fri, 17 May 2013 21:13:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: proact http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/05/25/supermajority-gop-chalked-up-big-gains-but-not-with-immigration-guns-and-anti-union-bills/comment-page-1/#comment-72766 proact Fri, 25 May 2012 19:12:17 +0000 http://azcapitoltimes.com/?p=46225#comment-72766 There's little to boast about. The state's reputation has been left in shambles. The people have lost more of their rights. Innocent people, families and childrens' lives have been destroyed through a culture of indifference and intolerance. There’s little to boast about. The state’s reputation has been left in shambles. The people have lost more of their rights. Innocent people, families and childrens’ lives have been destroyed through a culture of indifference and intolerance.

]]> By: proact http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/05/25/supermajority-gop-chalked-up-big-gains-but-not-with-immigration-guns-and-anti-union-bills/comment-page-1/#comment-72765 proact Fri, 25 May 2012 19:10:07 +0000 http://azcapitoltimes.com/?p=46225#comment-72765 In wrapping up the 2012 session we see glaring omissions: Why is the historic ousting of a sitting president of the Senate - Russell Pearce -- not mentioned? First recalled, then voted out of office. Why is the Corrections budget and the proposed $50,000,000 for new prisons / private prisons when Arizona does not need this expansion not mentioned? Why is the criminal justice system lack of reform not mentioned when Rep. Ash along with citizens and all have worked for years on much needed Sentencing reform to Arizona's draconian mandatory minimum sentencing --- where a non-violent, first offender is sentenced to 75 years? Updated laws and reform would save taxpayers millions that could be used for education, health care, job training instead of 'growing" the prison population for the private prison corporations who have "bought out" the legislators and set state public policy through the Governor's office. The public deserves real dialog and answers. In wrapping up the 2012 session we see glaring omissions:

Why is the historic ousting of a sitting president of the Senate – Russell Pearce — not mentioned? First recalled, then voted out of office.

Why is the Corrections budget and the proposed $50,000,000 for new prisons / private prisons when Arizona does not need this expansion not mentioned?

Why is the criminal justice system lack of reform not mentioned when Rep. Ash along with citizens and all have worked for years on much needed Sentencing reform to Arizona’s draconian mandatory minimum sentencing — where a non-violent, first offender is sentenced to 75 years? Updated laws and reform would save taxpayers millions that could be used for education, health care, job training instead of ‘growing” the prison population for the private prison corporations who have “bought out” the legislators and set state public policy through the Governor’s office.

The public deserves real dialog and answers.

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