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Arizona Governor Should Restore Teacher's Job

Risky Thicket said:
No, we aren't thankfully. The jury is still out on the future.

It's all in how you look at it. Arizona ranks 45th in the nation in public education. Arizona is ranked 49th per capita in state higher education funding. Arizona ranks 50th for public access to mental health care. Those are a few examples.

Don't misunderstand me. I like living here. We can do, and have done, better.

Arizona is in many ways moving in the wrong direction, however. Our governor, a Tea Partisan - who was elected due to huge amounts of dark money - has an approval rate of 35%. Under his small government :roll: approach municipalities cannot pass many local laws without state government approval. Want to establish a minimum wage for your city? Not without State approval. Want to outlaw plastic shopping bags in your town? No can do without State approval. And the State has already told Tempe that it may not.

How about this? Local governments that are reported for violating laws by any state legislator must be investigated by the State Attorney General. This essentially has given every state legislator a huge political trudgeon to hold over every city government in his or her (gerrymandered) district. Lovely, innit?

The governor and the Tea Party legislature are "Brownbacking" the state. It is a work in unprogress, check back with us a year from now.
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Thanks for agreeing with solletica's mindnumbingly ignorant rant about conservatism.
 
Risky Thicket said:
No, we aren't thankfully. The jury is still out on the future.

It's all in how you look at it. Arizona ranks 45th in the nation in public education. Arizona is ranked 49th per capita in state higher education funding. Arizona ranks 50th for public access to mental health care. Those are a few examples.

Don't misunderstand me. I like living here. We can do, and have done, better.

Arizona is in many ways moving in the wrong direction, however. Our governor, a Tea Partisan - who was elected due to huge amounts of dark money - has an approval rate of 35%. Under his small government :roll: approach municipalities cannot pass many local laws without state government approval. Want to establish a minimum wage for your city? Not without State approval. Want to outlaw plastic shopping bags in your town? No can do without State approval. And the State has already told Tempe that it may not.

How about this? Local governments that are reported for violating laws by any state legislator must be investigated by the State Attorney General. This essentially has given every state legislator a huge political trudgeon to hold over every city government in his or her (gerrymandered) district. Lovely, innit?

The governor and the Tea Party legislature are "Brownbacking" the state. It is a work in unprogress, check back with us a year from now.
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I'm sorry, cities in AZ may have 99 problems, but lack of authority to ban plastic bags ain't one. If your best argument against the state legislature is that they passed a law saying cities cannot ban shopping bags you have a really weak argument. And besides Arizona's legislative districts are drawn by a nonpartisan commission and not the legislature.
 
Visbek said:
So, let me get this straight.

You started a thread about a woman who was selling tamales without a permit, and fuming that she got dinged for $700. This provoked you into a multi-day tirade against how awful it is for the government to follow rules blindly and unthinkingly.

Then, when a state bureaucrat denies medical leave to a woman fighting cancer, fires her, and calls it an "involuntary resignation," you shrug and say "screw her." (And then top it off by tossing a bunch of vitriol at the liberals who don't want this woman to be fired, or lose her health insurance, because she's seriously ill.)

I guess a handful of conservatives will never let facts, logic, science, compassion or consistency get in the way of a really good snarl, huh? ;)
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They didn't deny her medical leave she not only took her medical leave but also was off the full 12 weeks of the family medical leave act.
After those twelve weeks no employer is allowed to keep your position open and you can be replaced.

I guess only a handful of liberals will let never let facts get in the way of a good enough rant or appeal to emotion.

This lady used up everything that she was allowed and couldn't come back to work.
 
ludin said:
They didn't deny her medical leave she not only took her medical leave but also was off the full 12 weeks of the family medical leave act.
After those twelve weeks no employer is allowed to keep your position open and you can be replaced.

I guess only a handful of liberals will let never let facts get in the way of a good enough rant or appeal to emotion.

This lady used up everything that she was allowed and couldn't come back to work.
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Most liberals are unemployed and don't understand the concept of a job.
 
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