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Where's Lujan's Budget Plan?

January 19, 2010

Dem opts for rhetoric and outdated website over protecting education and public safety

PHOENIX –– The campaign for Governor Jan Brewer today urged Rep. David Lujan, House Minority Leader in the Arizona Legislature and now a candidate for Attorney General, to either produce a realistic, concrete proposal for solving the state’s present fiscal problems or admit that he does not want to be part of the budget solution.

“Rep. Lujan continues to offer manipulation and political calculation when the people he serves need authentic service,” said former Attorney General Grant Woods, co-chairman to Governor Brewer’s campaign. “Despite his title and his ambition for higher office, his calls for leadership will continue to ring false, until he stops playing games and makes a positive contribution toward resolving the situation that he helped to create.”

Lujan told The Arizona Republic yesterday that his “line-by-line proposals” for balancing the budget can be found at a website -- a website which has not been updated since last September and which holds no specific proposal for a budget solution. “He might as well refer us to the Magna Carta,” said Woods. “It probably has more direction for solving the budget crisis than his website.”

During a press conference last Monday, Lujan was pressed by reporters to introduce his ideas as budget bills.  Lujan’s response:  House Democratic leadership will only put their budget proposals in bill form if they have 31 votes -- a majority of the House.  

Woods responded, “Governor Brewer has proposed a way forward which has displeased some in her own party; perhaps Reps. Lujan and other Democratic office holders could show their good faith by doing the same, and then we could take them seriously.”  

Lujan and other legislative Democrats continue to insist that they have been “frozen out” of budget discussions.  “That is nonsense,” concluded Woods. “They have simply decided to put politics ahead of public service and refused to help the current governor protect education and public safety through this downturn. She has done the courageous thing; they continue to do the political thing.”

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