AZ GOP
Governor Doug Ducey’s First 30 Days in Office
Doug Ducey: Has been named the #hashtag
governor by AZ Central. In the month since he was sworn into office, the
governor has used hashtags on twitter to repeatedly promote his agenda.
Not using communications
tools available on Arizona Government websites. Lack of transparency in Governors web site and other
Republican web sites that do not have an RSS Feed. Secretary of State, State
Treasurer, House Republicans, Senate Republicans, Agenda for Bills, list goes
on and on. The Only Web sites that I found that has an RSS Feed is AZ AG Mark
Brnovich and Senate Democrats.
First
action: Arizona Governor Doug Ducey today issued an
executive order implementing a
moratorium on all new regulatory rule making by state agencies.
Governor Ducey closes lobbyist office in Washington DC
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced a
statewide hiring freeze
"Ducey said
in State of the State Address on January 25, 2015"
“In
Arizona, educational excellence is a priority…That’s why I propose to spend not
less in the classroom than last year, but more.”
Action:
Cut $13.5
million overall from K-12 schools
Cut $75 million from universities
Cut 50 percent from the state’s largest community
college districts
Doing the
Math on School cuts
It uses $2.9 million in unspent
Department of Education fund plus
Takes $21 million that last year
was available to all K-12 schools as “Success Funding” and uses it to pay for
charter school capital costs that only a few charter schools will benefit from
IF they are legally able to use the money
Increases school funding by
$134.1 million ($85.2 million in inflation funding and $74.4 million due to
court case) But then requires a 5% cut to
traditional schools’ “non-classroom spending” and a 3.5% cut to charter schools
totaling $123.7 million
“The
business at hand…is to expand Arizona’s economy.”
Action:
Slashed Arizona Commerce Authority’s budget by
$100 million
Medicaid-Healthcare
Ducey’s budget calls
for a 3-percent reduction in funding to Medicaid providers starting April
1, 2015,
Austerity
Ducey cuts School, Medicaid, Tourism budgets and
raises staff salaries.
A new state airplane
In
the middle of a major budget crisis as Ducey cuts school budget ADOT will
shell $6 Million to buy the Governor a new luxury airplane to replace the one
it already has. Gov. Doug
Ducey, who was elected on a platform of less government spending does a mea
culpa the former state treasurer had no idea it was in the 2015 budget.
A New private prison
vs schools and Medicaid
