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Arizona Governor & Attorney General Fight Over Who Will Defend Arizona’s Immigration Law in Court

Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard first said he opposed Arizona’s immigration law and would not defend the law from court challenges.  The Arizona legislature passed House Bill 2162, a law that allows the governor to “direct counsel other than the attorney general to appear on behalf of this state to defend any challenge” to Arizona’s immigration law.  Now that Terry Goddard, prospective Democrat candidate for Arizona Governor in the next election, realizes that the vast majority of Arizona voters approve the law, he now wants to defend the law in court so he can take political credit while opposing the law.  Mr. Goddard was against Arizona’s immigration law before he was in favor of it.

Rather than following Arizona law, i.e., HB 2162, the Arizona Attorney General believes he can ignore it and can pick and chose which Arizona laws to defend based on his political views, rather than whether or not a law needs his representation in court because the State of Arizona is a party to the lawsuit.  Mr. Attorney General refuses to represent Arizona in its lawsuit challenging Obamacare.  The Arizona Governor correctly does not want the law to be defended by somebody who opposes it.  Now the Governor and the Attorney General are sparring over who will represent Arizona in litigation involving SB 1070.

Obama’s FTC Plan to Reinvent America’s News Media

Los Angeles Times:  “a year ago the new Democrat administration of Barack Obama launched a major internal study intended to design a major government rescue plan for the nation’s financially-troubled information media, primarily newspapers.”

“Would you believe: major changes to the copyright law, including government licensing provisions; government pilot programs to investigate potential new media business models, antitrust changes to allow media companies to unite on imposing online pay walls, establish a journalism division of AmeriCorps with government underwriting the training of young journalists, tax incentives per news employee, increased funding of public broadcasting, a 5% tax on consumer electronics and/or assessments on users of public airwaves.”

See “Will journalists wake up in time to save journalism from Obama’s FTC?”  “FTC protects journalism’s past,” “How not to save news – Bad gov’t ideas for journalism” and “FTC floats Drudge tax.”  See also “Lefties take anti-freedom of speech push to FCC.”  The author says Common Cause, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies  and the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute “seek repeal of the First Amendment’s guarantee of your freedom of speech.”

For a good summary of the FTC report go to “FTC Floats Tax-and-Subsidy Plan for Journalism.”

Here is the actual FTC study called the “POTENTIAL POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS TO SUPPORT THE REINVENTION OF JOURNALISM.”

AG’s Tarnished Brass

Investors Business Daily:  “The handful of police chiefs [including [Tucson’s Police Chief Roberto Villasenor]  who complained to Attorney General Eric Holder about Arizona’s new immigration law don’t represent law enforcement. They have a liberal agenda.”

“long before Arizona’s S.B. 1070 became law,  Villasenor’s own county [Pima] signed an agreement with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to help border agents ID and round up criminal aliens.”

DC Increases Cigarette Tax & Revenue Falls by $4.9 Million First 7 Months

Increasing taxes to get more revenue frequently does not work.   The District of Columbia raised it tax on cigarettes from $2 a carton to $2.50 a carton.  As a result, DC collected $4.9 million less during the period October 2009 through April 2010 than it did the prior period covering the same months.  Extrapolating this number to a year equates to an annual decrease of $8.4 million.  The brain-trust idiots who passed the increase predicted that revenue would go up $9.7 million a year.

See “Wealthy Fleeing Tax Happy New Jersey – $70 Billion Lost 2004 – 2008” for another example of increasing taxes with the result of less revenue collected.

The Millionaire Cop Next Door

Forbes:  “It is said that government workers now make, on average, 30% more than private sector workers. Put that fantasy aside. It far underestimates the real figures. By my calculations, government workers make more than twice as much. Government workers are America’s fastest-growing millionaires.”

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