Although SB 1411 failed a third reading vote in the Arizona Senate, it may come up for a reconsideration vote next week.
Republican Senator Don Shooter, of District 24, motioned to reconsider whereby the Senate failed to pass SB 1411 on Third Reading on March 1, 2011. Motion carried.
Republican majority whip Steve Pierce is opposed to the measure. In an email to TEA party members, Mr. Pierce indicated that giving the other elected officials their money in lump sum would remove necessary controls.
“I agree with you,” he wrote to TEA Party member Steve Dudley. “we need the controls and I want to keep them.”
Mr. Dudley responded to the email, in part, “I find your use of ‘controls’ in scope and application rather narrow and limited. With a state budget deficit of 1.4 billion dollars, how are state legislators supposed to track allocated monies if County Supervisors and County Boards of Sups are allowed to unilaterally and arbitrarily redistribute funds from the state contrary to submitted County budgets?”
The Sonoran Alliance charges abuses by Maricopa County and Pima County supervisors concerning Sheriffs Joe Arpaio and Paul Babeu.
“The Supervisors have done everything they can to take out officials like Sheriff Arpaio and former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas because they disagreed with their efforts combating illegal immigration. But Arpaio and Thomas are being vindicated. Just today the Republic ran a story on how there has been a 40% drop in illegal immigrants in county jails,” The Sonoran Alliance web site says.
The key change in the measure is that County Supervisors would have to approve the budgets for other elected county officials and give them their budget in lump sum. It adds Justices of the Peace to the list of elected County Officials.
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