Finally, former governor Doug Ducey invites you and all your friends to dinner at the most expensive restaurant in town, and the man who orders champagne, caviar, surf and turf, and the most decadent dessert on the menu. It was… and the check arrived.
We already knew this about him.
Eight years later, we are facing a terrifying education funding crisis.
We are plagued by a water crisis that, if resolved, would be costly.
We’re stuck picking up the tabs on Ducey and every wealthy fellow the Republican-dominated Congress has handed out tax cut after tax cut after tax cut.
Ducey’s border wall left a bad taste
And like cherries over chocolate mousse that costs more than your minivan, there’s the border wall of Ducey’s dire shipping containers.
Bored at the end of his term, and trying to score points with Republicans across the country, Ducey spent about $100 million to buy thousands of shipping containers, ship them to southern Arizona, and build locations near Yuma and Stacked on federal property in Cochise County.
Not to mention how well the $100 million taxpayer money was put to good use. Not to mention the cost of tearing down the wall, some estimates suggest it could be as high as $75 million.
A merry band of extremely brave and determined protesters eventually stalled a facility in eastern Arizona, and a lawsuit filed by the federal government put an end to it. Agreement between the federal government and the states, Arizona to “remove all previously installed shipping containers and associated equipment, materials, vehicles, and other items from U.S. property on land in the National Forest System within the Coronado National Forest.” I agree with you. The U.S. Border Patrol’s Yuma Sector, which includes land on which the U.S. Reclamation Service holds an easement on the West Reservation of the Cocopa Indian Tribe.
He wanted to be moe.he’s stuck with curly
Before the deal was reached, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement from Washington that the container wall “is not an effective barrier and poses a safety hazard to both the public and those working in the area.” has caused serious damage to public lands.”
But it wasn’t the land that Ducey was worried about. It was his reputation.
For most of eight years, the former governor hoped silly stunts like the container wall would get him the kind of media attention that Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas received. But among these three puppets of Republican politics, Ducey remained curly to Moe and Larry.
And now we’re left to pick up the tab.
On New Year’s Day, social media was flooded with pictures of a giant rainbow over the Phoenix subway. Newly appointed Governor Katie Hobbs also tweeted about it.
I hope she found the pot of gold. she will need it
Arrival in Montini ed.montini@arizonarepublic.com.
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