So this afternoon Serena Unrein, the Executive Director of the Arizona Students’ Association and a graduate of Arizona State University, tweeted that she was
Seriously contemplating moving to a new state right now. You know, one that won’t cut every vital service we have. This budget is NOT okay.
The budget she was referring to, which is currently moving toward adoption by the Republican-controlled state legislature, would end full-day kindergarten in the state. It would cut more than a third of a million Arizonans from the state’s health care rolls, including nearly fifty thousand children. It would propose that voters defund a land conservation program and eliminate an early childhood education program.
State Senator Jack W. Harper saw Unrein’s comment, and was moved to reply. That reply?
Drive safely
Class. Pure class.
By the way, Harper deleted his tweet after Unrein responded to it. Cute.
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March 10, 2010 at 1:18 am
Serena
Thanks for posting this. As you said here, the budget cuts that the Republicans in the Arizona Legislature have proposed would be devastating to our state. The budget passed today include eliminating KidsCare (which is health care for children of the working poor), the Department of Juvenile Corrections and all-day kindergarten. There are massive cuts to K-12 public education and to the public universities, along with cuts to other important state agencies.
I’m appalled that the only solution the legislature has come up with is this budget. Arizonans deserve better than this budget, and we deserve better than legislators who treat the outrage at this budget so flippantly.
Oh, and by the way, I don’t work for ASA anymore (I left in December), but they are doing amazing work for the public university students of Arizona and I’m proud to be an ASA alum!