'Oh, just secede already': Arizona House votes to ignore Obama executive orders
Source: Arizona Republic
... This afternoon, the Arizona House approved House Bill 2368, declaring that henceforth the sovereign state of Arizona will not enforce any executive orders issued by the president of the United States or any policy directives from the Department of Justice unless they are affirmed by Congress and signed into law.
... The bill, sponsored by none other than Rep. Bob Thorpe, R-Flagstaff, is one of a series of kooky measures aimed at declaring our independence from federal gun laws, from the Affordable Care Act, from the Environmental Protection Agency, from the Department of Justice, from Barack Obama and from just about anything else associated with the state's most detested f-word.
Federal, that is.
Apparently, House Bill 2368 isn't even controversial. The only one to speak about it on the House floor, was Rep. Bruce Wheeler, D-Tucson, who noted that presidents throughout our nation's history have used executive orders.
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/story/laurieroberts/2015/03/10/hb2368-arizona-house-executive-orders/24728555/
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You all get to stay. 
Sorry you have to live with such insanity
Also with Texas. Let them secede, then see Mexico's army take it back. 
Mesa was hit HARD. There is one problem though --
(Avoid East Mesa like the plague though if you do consider it)
Tempe is much, much better but one problem. Much more expensive to live there, Southeast Phoenix has affordable homes better area. South Phoenix & Tempe & other spots are where the liberal pockets are in Maricopa County.
This is a very racist legislature, just look up how minority studies regarding universities & high schools. My own former State Senator wrote the bill SB 1070 (sponsored it, some other known racist actually wrote it)
Russell K. Pearce (born June 23, 1947) is an American politician and Republican former member of the Arizona State Senate. He rose to national prominence as the primary sponsor of Arizona SB1070, a controversial anti-illegal alien measure that was signed into law in 2010. He was elected President of the Arizona Senate when the Senate began its current term in January 2011, but then suffered a dramatic reversal of fortune when he was ousted in a November 2011 recall election, the first legislator in Arizona history to be so removed from office.[1] He served as Vice-Chair of the Arizona GOP, but in September 2014, he resigned the position after controversy over his recommendation of forced sterilization of poor women on Medicaid.[2]
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Controversy
Pearce faced criticism in 2006 after he called for the renewal of a 1950's immigration enforcement program, Operation Wetback, that deported or encouraged to deport 1.3 million illegal immigrants in less than a year. Hispanic groups said the use of the word wetback was derogatory.[24]
In October 2006, Pearce included the text of an article by National Alliance, a white separatist group, in an email to a group of supporters. The article, titled "Who Rules America"[25] contained allegations of Jewish control of the media and of multiculturalism being a Jewish anti-White conspiracy, as well as Holocaust denialism.[26] He quickly apologized to supporters in an email, stating: "Ugly the words contained in it really are. They are not mine and I disavow them completely. Worse still, the website links to a group whose politics are the ugliest imaginable."[26] Pearce told reporters he did not agree with the antisemitic and racist statements in the article, and that he had copied it from an email forwarded to him by someone else after "the title and the first paragraphs about media bias appealed to him".[26]
Pearce was also criticized for his association with white supremacist J. T. Ready.[27] Pearce endorsed Ready for Mesa City Council in 2006[28] and appeared with him at several rallies. In 2004 Pearce was photographed attending Ready's baptism into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Church documents reveal that Pearce ordained Ready into the LDS priesthood.[29] Pearce has since claimed he was unaware of Ready's neo-Nazi affiliations at the time he made the endorsement.[30]
In April 2008, Pearce sponsored a measure, Senate Bill 1108, that would bar Arizonan public schools from teaching that "denigrate[s] American values and the teachings of Western civilization", and prohibit the formation of groups at public tertiary institutions "based in whole or part on the race of their membership". Pearce said he didn't want students indoctrinated with progressive ideologies. The Arizona Republic noted the measure could ban groups such as the Black Business Students Association at Arizona State University or Native Americans United at Northern Arizona University. Critics of the bill called it vague and predicted its implementation would have chilling effects.[31]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Pearce
This is where I live, in his district. He lost the recent midterm election to another Republican -- the only 2 options on the ballot 
When ever I think to click on your name, your questions or talking points are always of the right-wing variety (I've only done it twice). What's up with that?
Please don't leave me alone with this state legislature 
I have long called them a national laughing stock, especially if more was known of what they do. They know this too.
Arizona's idiot legislature doesn't want you to watch their idiocy
by Mother MagsFollow
I can understand why Republicans in the Arizona legislature would want to pass a bill like SB 1435. Here's the crucial change that the bill makes to the old language about open meetings:
"Meeting" means the gathering, in person or through technological devices, of a quorum of members of a public body at which they discuss, propose or take legal action, including any deliberations by a quorum with respect to such action IS TAKEN.
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Got that? To comply with the state's open meeting law, and yet meet in secret, they've simply changed the definition of "meeting." No longer does it mean legislative committee hearings, school board meetings, or other public agency sessions where ideas, bills, budgets, and laws are debated and discussed – and where the public can listen and speak. Now it only means those occasions where "action is taken." Goodie, we get to watch them vote.
They're not only denying the public the right to witness the deliberations of people we pay to make laws, they're denying people a voice in governance. If they limit the public only to meetings where elected officials take action, it's too late, that sausage has been made.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/12/1363955/-Arizona-s-idiot-legislature-doesn-t-want-you-to-watch-their-idiocy?detail=email
