According to a source in contact with the inner circle around Gov. Brewer:

--Brewer will veto SB 1062 soon.

--Brewer has received letters from the NFL, Marriott and Apple (the latter which is threatening to pull its planned facility out the Phoenix East Valley if the bill becomes law). The NFL has also warned that it will move the 2015 Super Bowl out of Phoenix if the bill becomes law.

--Permitting the bill to become law will kill jobs faster in Arizona than anything else conceivable. The bill is a disaster on the employment front.

--Brewer is allowing all sides to be heard before she vetoes the bill--particularly the side that wishes her to sign it.

--Brewer should have vetoed the bill earlier but has promised to hear out the "wackos."

--The fatal flaw of the bill is permitting people to decide in their own minds what is a violation of religious liberty that justifies discrimination against others. Good legislation cannot be built around such a notion.



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I'm no legal expert but I doubt the bill would survive a constitutional challenge. So to me it's not so much a question about whether or not the bill will become law, but the issue with a state being run by a bunch of bigots. Damage is done IMO

Anyone hear anything about Google Fiber pulling out? I would have thought they would have stepped in with support to veto the bill.

of course she will. She, like the ople who wrote the bill are trying to send a message...message sent: AZ is run by biggots and tea party extremist that are avalaible for your next national election.

They write bills like this, based on "core beliefs" then wait to get the press coverage they want and then back out citing persecution. win-win.

. . . just like on its cancellation of a state-sponsored MLK Day and its passage of its notorious anti-immigrant law, SB 1070 (which has since been significantly scaled back by the U.S. Supreme Court).

The nation, from coast to coast, is dumbstruck with this state's dumbness (at least as it is consistently manifested in the AZ legislature).



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Hey Steve, Do you have any cartoons with Anderson Cooper Interviewing Arizona Senator Al Melvin, who wants to be our next governor?

I've read lots of snowbirds' blogs lately that are saying they won't be returning to AZ to winter over, even if the law is vetoed. New Mexico and S. CA should fare well from this. I even read a blog where they told you how to go the Grand Cyn w/o buying anything in AZ, except maybe 5 gal. of gas.

I won't be going down there, but I don't care for much of it anyway, so no big loss.

One word - Moab. It's kinda more like Colorado. Going to Moab until June, then returning to CO. But I know a lot of people who really like to winter over in S. AZ, also have a lot of family in PHX and Tucson (from Alaska).

AZ has too many critters that bite, and some of them are people.

Two words: too big. LOL

Beautiful place, though.

One word: Expensive.

I actually may come down there for part of the summer...

It's nice to communicate with a man of few words.

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ROTFLMAO!!!!

Arizona legislators...

Putting "the South" into the Southwest.

Good one! Ouch.

...have all opined that she should veto it. It that doesn't clue her in, I don't know what it would take. If the bill becomes law, she'll be on the wrong side of history.

That old cow, brewer is a money grubbing hypocrite, like the average Mormon, so I've no doubt she'll veto the bill.

But the affront to the LGBT community in her prolonged deliberation will not be forgotten.

At this point an enormous amount of damage has been done to Arizona.

Veto or sign, I believe that LGBT people, and fair minded heterosexual people will keep themselves and their money far from a state that seems determined to elect the most racist and homophobic politicians that they can scrape from the bottom of the barrel.

I hope that this stain on Arizona stays bright and prominent as the one left from the MLK debacle.