“They Really Don’t Care About The Old And The Poor:” Sunday’s Comic

From MCRC Briefs…..

AZ LEGISLATORS REALLY DON’T LIKE OLD, POOR PEOPLE

Republicans and Democrats voted overwhelmingly to put old, poor people in Arizona at serious risk of losing their homes……

Maricopa County Treasurer Royce Flora pushed hard for the bill and expressed his disappointment in its failure with an open letter to county property owners that can be viewed on the Treasurer’s website www.treasurer.maricopa.gov

Where do you place the blame for this debacle? Certainly with the 49 House members who voted against it. But a majority of the blame belongs on the shoulders of four people: (1) House Speaker JD Mesnard (R-17) for having no backbone to do the right thing in the first place, providing no leadership to support this important bill, and by not joining Burges in rallying the troops. This is more reason why you shouldn’t have children in leadership. (Until recently, Mesnard lived in Tempe—on Sesame Street. It’s starting to make sense. If you look at Mesnard as he sits on the House dais, doesn’t he look suspiciously like Oscar the Grouch?)

Vince Leach LD11(2) Rep Vince Leach (R-11) who gave impassioned speeches against the bill in committee hearings and caucus, claiming it was unconstitutional and would destroy fire districts (neither is true). Both the Senate and House Rules attorneys ruled that the bill is constitutional but Leach and others refused to listen to their own attorneys and instead bought into special interests who don’t care about old, poor people.

Mark Cardenas (d) 2(3) Special negative shout out to Rep Mark Cardenas (D-19) who authored the House version of the bill and did nothing in the Democratic caucus to help its passage. In fact, in their caucus, Democrats voiced their opposition because they saw it as a tax cut. Cardenas joined all his other Democrat buddies and actually voted against the bill. All Senate Democrats voted for it; all House Democrats voted against it. It goes to show you just how dysfunctional the Democratic Party really is, and that they really don’t care about the poor…..