State Capitol News

Phoenix, AZ – Alessandra Meetze, president of the Arizona chapter of the ACLU
said affiliates from 32 states are issuing advisories telling
people who intend to travel to Arizona that they need to be
informed of their rights.

Phoenix, AZ – The squabble started when Felecia Rotellini accused Vince Rabago
of filing a lawsuit against a payday lender last December to get
some quick publicity and then abandoning the case a month later
when he quit as assistant attorney general to run for the top
job. She said that belies his claim that he has been there for
working families.

Phoenix, AZ – It didn't take long for the candidates to start attacking each
other in a televised debate Tuesday night. In fact, the charges
started coming with Andrew Thomas' opening statement where he
pointed out that Tom Horne ran a company that filed for
bankruptcy and that he entered into an agreement with the
Securities and Exchange Commission that resulted in a lifetime
trading ban. Horne conceded the facts but said Thomas has a
reason to bring up something that happened 40 years ago.

Phoenix, AZ – The state transportation department closed down 13 of the state's
18 rest areas last fall because of budget problems. That left
long stretches of interstate with not much other than a few
bushes. ADOT's Doug Nintzel said things have changed since then.

(Our operating budget has stabilized at least enough so we can
say that it's leveled off. We're ready to reopen five rest areas
next month and four others this fall. So that'll mean nine of the
13 closed rest areas will be back open again.

Phoenix, AZ – The first is over what exactly Barack Obama told Jan Brewer when
they met on June 3 in the Oval Office. Both agree the president
promised to provide her information about his plans to put 12-
hundred National Guard soldiers along the border and how he
intends to use an extra $500 million he wants from Congress. But
Brewer insisted he promised to get her that information in two
weeks -- two weeks that were up Thursday.