Private prisons that might not be used and who cares about no actual evidence of voter fraud? After the jump.
VOTER FRAUD IS A PROBLEM EVEN WHEN IT ISN'T: This from the Arizona Legislative Report:
[Former Secretary of State Ken] Bennett told our reporter today that, while he and [Sen. Don] Shooter may disagree with his office’s conclusion in 2010 that there was no “massive voter fraud” occurring in Yuma County, he fully supports the senator’s S1340 (voted early ballots; delivery; identification), which would create a registry of people who deliver more than 10 early ballots to elections officials. “Just because we may have dismissed the concept of ‘massive voter fraud’ doesn’t mean we weren’t concerned with any level of voter fraud,” the former secretary of state said.
In other words, there is no evidence of voter fraud, let's punish people who help people vote. 'Specially when it is the wrong people...
DUCEY'S BUDGET ISN'T ALL CUTS: Before you condemn Governor Ducey for cutting every program in sight to make up for poor planning by the last quarter century of governors and legislators, keep in mind that he isn't cutting everything. He is spending $1.5 billion on one thing.
We will have more private prison beds. Yay Arizona!
3,000 of them as a matter of fact. That's about a half million a bed, even by Arizona budget math.
Do we have prisoners to fill these beds? No? Oh, that's okay, because we guarantee that we will pay for the beds anyhow.
I kid, but it is chilling how much power the private prison industry has and how it has warped public policy (SB 1070 was, at its core, a way to fill private prison beds). Equally sad is that it seems to be the only industry we are promoting in many of our rural communities.