Arizona Governor Jan Brewer went from the hair salon to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. She has served as a State Senator and State Representative for Arizona from 1983 to 1996. Brewer served as Chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and ran for Arizona Secretary of State in 2002.
In June 2013, during a press conference, the governor released numbers that she said justified her support for a tax increase. The governor’s office released figures which showed that an estimated $2.739 billion was taken out of the taxpayers’ wallets and moved into school construction and health and safety programs.
In the senate’s budget, the governor’s supporters loaded up the budget with extravagances. The pro-Brewercare republicans allowed almost every budget item desired by the democrats to be tacked on in order to maintain their coalition to get Brewercare through the Senate.
At her press conference the former hairdresser-turned-governor said she had “wishful hopefulness” that a budget would be addressed by the House next week. She predicted, or hoped that the budget “will pass out and they can pass the rest of their bills and we can sine die and you all won’t have anything to write about,” referring to the press.
One Capitol insider said, “If she believes what she just said, she is stupid. If she believes that we believe what she just said, she believes that we are stupid.”
Turns out, both were probably true. The State is in extremely poor financial condition….