Subject: dailies 5.4.16
From: "Brinster, Jeremy" <[email-masked]>
To: "Haxo, Chris" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 08:43:15 -0700

DOUG DUCEY

Misc. Social Media

Doug Ducey: “Great Speaking To Ed And Biz Leaders Across US On How To Prepare Youth For Economic Success At #Swpathways” [@dougducey, Twitter, 5/3/16<https://twitter.com/dougducey/status/727519448152707072>]

Doug Ducey: “Teaching Is A Tough Profession And They Work Long Hours For Little Pay In Arizona. We Need To Show Our Teachers We Have Their Backs. Vote YES On ‪#‎Prop123, So Arizona's Teachers Receive A Much-Needed Raise! ‪#‎Thankateacher.” [Governor Doug Ducey, Facebook, 5/3/16<https://www.facebook.com/dougducey/posts/898107196977853>]

Caterpillar

Doug Ducey: “600+ High-Paying @Caterpillarinc Jobs Are On Their Way To #Tucson! Huge Win For Southern #AZ!” [@dougducey, Twitter, 5/3/16<https://twitter.com/dougducey/status/727579013019885568>]

Doug Ducey: “Great News For Southern Arizona! An Influx Of Jobs Is Headed To #Tucson! Http://Bit.Ly/1njgl5d” [@dougducey, Twitter, 5/3/16<https://twitter.com/dougducey/status/727528283147902983>]

Doug Ducey On Caterpillar’s Move To Arizona: “This Is A Huge Win For Tucson And The Entire Region…In Addition To Bringing Jobs And Capital Investment To Southern Arizona, A Project Of This Level Will Have A Ripple Effect Throughout The Community And State.” “Caterpillar Inc. is coming to downtown Tucson, bringing hundreds of six-figure jobs to the region, Arizona’s governor and local officials announced this morning. The regional headquarters of the manufacturer of construction and mining equipment will bring more than 600 jobs to Tucson over five years with employees in executive management, engineering, product development and support positions. The majority of the jobs will be relocated employees from around the globe. The state estimates the economic impact to Southern Arizona at $600 million. ‘This is a huge win for Tucson and the entire region,’ Gov. Doug Ducey said today. ‘In addition to bringing jobs and capital investment to Southern Arizona, a project of this level will have a ripple effect throughout the community and state.’” [Arizona Daily Star, 5/3/16<http://tucson.com/business/tucson/caterpillar-inc-bringing-regional-hq-to-downtown-tucson-jobs/article_cce5e19e-10ca-11e6-8c95-a318c5316be1.html>]

Keating

Doug Ducey: “#AZ Mourns The Loss Of An American Hero - Elite Navy SEAL Charlie Keating IV - Killed This Morning In Iraq.” [@dougducey, Twitter, 5/3/16<https://twitter.com/dougducey/status/727636077452763137>]

Doug Ducey Released A Statement Mourning Charles Keating IV, A Navy SEAL Killed In Iraq, And Ordering Arizona’s Flags Lowered. [Press Release, Office of Governor Ducey, 5/3/16<http://azgovernor.gov/node/1739>]

AZ Supreme Court

KJZZ On A Bill To Expand Arizona’s Supreme Court: Doug Ducey “Acknowledged There Will Be A Cost To Expanding The Court-- Perhaps $1 Million A Year.” “The only thing standing in the way of a seven-member state Supreme Court is Gov. Doug Ducey’s signature. On a party-line vote, the state Senate approved a measure adding two justices to the state's high court…The bill now sits on Ducey’s desk, and the Governor has acknowledged there will be a cost to expanding the court-- perhaps $1 million a year.” [KJZZ, 5/3/16<http://kjzz.org/content/300908/arizona-very-close-seven-seat-supreme-court>]

Huffington Post’s Marvin Meadors: “Governor Ducey And Republican Legislators Are Engaging In A Kind Of Fiscal Blackmail Where They Will Only Agree To Fund The Judiciary If The Governor Can Appoint An Additional Two Justices To The State Highest Court.” “Anyway, both show little but contempt for the judiciary and the respective checks and balances of governance. For example, to continue his radical experiment in reactionary policies unfettered and against the will of the people, (polls in Arizona show people want to spend more money on the schools, for example), Governor Ducey and Republican legislators are engaging in a kind of fiscal blackmail where they will only agree to fund the judiciary if the governor can appoint an additional two justices to the state highest court.” [Marvin Meadors column, Huffington Post, 5/4/16<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marvin-meadors/arizona-kansas-right-wing-judicial-reform_b_9835340.html>]

Budget

The Arizona Legislature Passed A $9.6 Billion Budget On May 4, 2016. “The Arizona Legislature has passed a $9.6 billion budget after a week spent wrangling over additional funding for K-12 schools that wasn't included in the initial agreement. Lawmakers debated until nearly 2 a.m. Wednesday morning before approving a spending package for the state budget year beginning July 1 that included a small increase in funding for several school line items.” [WRAL, 5/4/16<http://www.wral.com/the-latest-plan-to-put-kidscare-in-budget-sidelined/15679984/>]

Associated Press: Arizona Democratic Senator Martin Quezada Opposed A $5.5 Million Earmark To Koch-Backed “Economic Freedom Schools,” Saying To Republicans, “Fund Your Own Damn Non-Degree Conservative Institution.” “Democratic Senators are railing against the Republican-backed budget with amendments to remove and redirect funding provisions, though none passed. Sen. Olivia Cajero Bedford, D-Tucson, wanted to give $5.5 million back to all three universities that is specifically set aside for programs backed by billionaire Republican donor Charles Koch. ‘Fund your own damn non-degree conservative institution,’ said Martin Quezada, D-Phoenix. Quezada then attempted to strip a nearly $27 million appropriation for the Governor's border strike force. He said the state should leave border patrol to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.” [Associated Press, 5/3/16<http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/136354747-story>]

KidsCare

Associated Press: “A Plan To Restore A Health Insurance Program For Poor Children Through An Amendment To The State Budget Package Appears To Have Fallen Victim To Politics.” “A plan to restore a health insurance program for poor children through an amendment to the state budget package appears to have fallen victim to politics. Republican Rep. Karen Fann says opposition from fiscal conservatives in the House sidelined that planned effort Tuesday. Amendments were expected in both the House and Senate to restore the plan during debate on a $9.58 billion budget plan. Arizona remains the only state that doesn't participate in the Children's Health Insurance Program, called KidCare in Arizona. A proposal to resume participating passed the House by a wide margin on in March. It stalled in the Senate after President Andy Biggs refused to hear it.” [Associated Press, 5/3/16<http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/136354747-story>]

Associated Press: “Opposition From Fiscal Conservatives In The House Sidelined” Arizona’s Plan To Restore Medicaid Funding For Poor Children. “A plan to restore a health insurance program for poor children through an amendment to the state budget package appears to have fallen victim to politics. Republican Rep. Karen Fann says opposition from fiscal conservatives in the House sidelined that planned effort Tuesday. Amendments were expected in both the House and Senate to restore the plan during debate on a $9.58 billion budget plan. Arizona remains the only state that doesn't participate in the Children's Health Insurance Program, called KidCare in Arizona. A proposal to resume participating passed the House by a wide margin on in March. It stalled in the Senate after President Andy Biggs refused to hear it.” [Associated Press, 5/3/16<http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/136354747-story>]

RICK SCOTT

Trump VP

Rick Scott On Whether Or Not He Would Run On A Ticket With Donald Trump: “I’ve Got A Great Job Now…My Focus Is On How Do I Make Florida The No. 1 State To Get A Job.” “Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Tuesday that he is ‘not interested’ in running for vice president, after the Republican frontrunner, Donald Trump, mentioned Scott and two other governors among potential running mates. ‘I’ve got a great job now,’ Scott said in an interview. ‘My focus is on how do I make Florida the No. 1 state to get a job.’ Pressed further, Scott said, ‘I’m not interested in ... vice president. I’m interested in being the governor.’” [Sacramento Bee, 5/3/16<http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article75377747.html>]

Rick Scott On Whether Or Not He Would Run On A Ticket With Donald Trump: “I’m Not Interested In ... Vice President. I’m Interested In Being The Governor.” “Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Tuesday that he is ‘not interested’ in running for vice president, after the Republican frontrunner, Donald Trump, mentioned Scott and two other governors among potential running mates. ‘I’ve got a great job now,’ Scott said in an interview. ‘My focus is on how do I make Florida the No. 1 state to get a job.’ Pressed further, Scott said, ‘I’m not interested in ... vice president. I’m interested in being the governor.’” [Sacramento Bee, 5/3/16<http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article75377747.html>]

Trade Mission

Tampa Bay Times’ Steve Bousquet: “California Seething: Scott's Trip Brings Blast Of Terrible Publicity.” [Steve Bousquet Column, Tampa Bay Times, 5/3/16<http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/california-seething-scotts-trip-brings-blast-of-terrible-publicity/2275734>]

EDITORIAL: “Gov. Scott, Try To Create Jobs In Florida Instead Of Stealing Them From California.” [Editorial, Los Angeles Times, 5/4/16<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-0504-poaching-california-20160503-story.html>]

Los Angeles Times Editorial: “Scott Should Be At Home In Florida…Trying To Create Well-Paying Jobs, Instead Of Trolling For Low-Wage Ones That He Can Steal In California, Undermining This State's Efforts To Pay A Living Wage To More Of Its Low-Skilled Workers.” “What Brown didn't say to Scott — and should have — is that although California is used to periodic interstate poaching, the premise of this particular trip is especially offensive. Scott should be at home in Florida (where the minimum wage is $8.05 an hour) trying to create well-paying jobs, instead of trolling for low-wage ones that he can steal in California, undermining this state's efforts to pay a living wage to more of its low-skilled workers.” [Editorial, Los Angeles Times, 5/4/16<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-0504-poaching-california-20160503-story.html>]

Economy

Rick Scott: “Orlando Is The Top US Tourist Destination For The 2nd Year In A Row @Orlandomayor @Mayor_Jacobs @Visitorlando @Waltdisneyworld @Universalorl” [FLGovScott, 5/316<https://twitter.com/FLGovScott/status/727549796794400772>]

Rick Scott Appeared With Other Governors At A Milken Institute Panel And Joined Them In Arguing That His State Did Not Have Enough Skilled Workers To Fill All Available Jobs. “America's governors -- one a former presidential candidate -- share at least one major concern: lack of skilled workers to do the job. ‘My number one problem in my state is workforce,’ Republican Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin said at the Milken Global Conference in Los Angeles. ‘My big problem is how to fill those jobs...I still don't have enough workers.’ Former presidential candidate Walker isn't alone. Democrat or Republican, east or west, north or south, governors are seeing the same red flag rising. Republican Gov. Rick Scott of Florida noted Monday that GE makes most of its money overseas and globalization creates added job pressure from overseas. ‘We're competing (globally) for jobs,’ Scott said on the same panel of four governors moderated Monday by Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google parent Alphabet.” [CNN Money, 5/4/16<http://www.wmur.com/money/4-us-governors-on-jobs-not-enough-workers/39357586>]

Misc. Social Media

Rick Scott: “FL Teachers Are The Best In The Nation & Help Students Succeed. This #Teacherappreciationweek Please #Thankateacher. Http://Bit.Ly/1W8O2U7” [FLGovScott, 5/3/16<https://twitter.com/FLGovScott/status/727846367280926721>]

Death Penalty

Rick Scott’s Administration Was Fighting A Legal Battle To Keep Hundreds Of Florida Prisoners On Death Row Despite A Supreme Court Ruling That Critics Argued Activated A State Law That Would Reduce All Death Row Sentences To Life Imprisonment. “In an amicus brief filed Tuesday, a collection of high-profile legal figures and groups in Florida say the answer is clear to them. They argue in the 33-page brief submitted to the Florida Supreme Court that ‘a straightforward application’ of the state’s sentencing statute means death-row inmates ‘are entitled to have their death sentences replaced by sentences of life without parole.’ According to their brief, state law requires a wholesale jettisoning of the death sentences, rather than ‘a piecemeal, case-by-case review.’ The statute they are citing states that if ‘the death penalty in a capital felony is held to be unconstitutional by the Florida Supreme Court or the United States Supreme Court … the court shall sentence such person to life imprisonment.’ State authorities, though, say that since the death penalty itself was not deemed unconstitutional, the statute does not apply here. Instead, the Supreme Court ‘struck a portion of the [sentencing] statute as a means of imposing a constitutional sentence,’ Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a court filing earlier this year. Bondi (R) argued that the state law did not intend to reduce all death sentences to life sentences ‘any time any aspect of the statute is held to be unconstitutional.’” [Washington Post, 5/4/16<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/05/04/florida-has-nearly-400-death-row-inmates-will-the-state-overturn-all-of-their-death-sentences/>]

HIV

The Florida Department Of Health Released An FAQ About Revisions To The State’s HIV Count Weeks After 11 Members Of Congress Questioned The Integrity Of The Data. “After weeks of not answering questions on controversial revisions to the state HIV count, the Florida Department of Health has released more detailed information on the state's calculations. In a list of frequently asked questions posted Friday to the Department of Health's website, officials said they send information about all new HIV cases to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC then identifies cases that may have been counted in more than one state and asks those health departments to decide where the case was first diagnosed. Florida health officials said they have had thousands more potential duplicates to review because a larger share of laboratories are now reporting results electronically. The officials also said the CDC had ‘expanded the criteria for identifying potential duplicate cases.’… In its latest release, state health officials said many of the cases identified as duplicates in Florida ended up on the New York, California and Georgia rolls. It's unclear whether the information will satisfy 11 members of Congress from Florida who last week asked Republican Gov. Rick Scott for a thorough breakdown of the revised data, expressing concerns about ‘statistical integrity.’” [Tampa Bay Times, 5/3/16<http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/pressed-by-members-of-congress-florida-officials-offer-deeper-explanation/2275732>]

Tampa Bay Times On A Controversial Revision To The State’s HIV Count: “Florida Health Officials Said They Have Had Thousands More Potential Duplicates To Review Because A Larger Share Of Laboratories Are Now Reporting Results Electronically…[And] The CDC Had ‘Expanded The Criteria For Identifying Potential Duplicate Cases.’” “After weeks of not answering questions on controversial revisions to the state HIV count, the Florida Department of Health has released more detailed information on the state's calculations. In a list of frequently asked questions posted Friday to the Department of Health's website, officials said they send information about all new HIV cases to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC then identifies cases that may have been counted in more than one state and asks those health departments to decide where the case was first diagnosed. Florida health officials said they have had thousands more potential duplicates to review because a larger share of laboratories are now reporting results electronically. The officials also said the CDC had ‘expanded the criteria for identifying potential duplicate cases.’… In its latest release, state health officials said many of the cases identified as duplicates in Florida ended up on the New York, California and Georgia rolls. It's unclear whether the information will satisfy 11 members of Congress from Florida who last week asked Republican Gov. Rick Scott for a thorough breakdown of the revised data, expressing concerns about ‘statistical integrity.’” [Tampa Bay Times, 5/3/16<http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/pressed-by-members-of-congress-florida-officials-offer-deeper-explanation/2275732>]