JANET, PLEASE DON'T GO!

Janet Napolitano, currently the Democratic Governor of Arizona, is supposedly Obama's choice to head the Dept. of Homeland Security. I'm sure she would do a good job but I really don't want her to leave because under Arizona law, the Secretary of State would become governor and our current Secretary is a wingnut.

Brewer could bring clear rightward tilt
By Howard Fischer
Capitol Media Services
Tucson, Arizona Published: 11.21.2008
Tucson Daily Star

PHOENIX — Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano's departure to Washington, D.C., would elevate often-partisan Republican Jan Brewer to the state's top office and drastically change the face of Arizona government.

And it would move it to the right.

Brewer, 64, spent much of her 14 years as a state legislator criticizing the size and growth of government.

Brewer objected strenuously to the budget being adopted in 1992. She called it "reeking and squealing with pork." A year later, as Senate majority leader, she blasted efforts to expand coverage under the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the state's Medicaid program.

In 1995 she voted against another proposal to expand AHCCCS eligibility by using tobacco tax revenues.

She also has backed new restrictions on abortion, gaining the endorsement of Arizona Right to Life when she ran for secretary of state in 2002.

And she introduced a measure to urge Congress to amend the U.S. Constitution to make the burning of the nation's flag a crime.