Oops. We didn't mean it: 3 AZ repuke Senators backtrack on idiot bigot bill

[cali]

PHOENIX -- Three Republican senators who voted for Senate Bill 1062 said Monday they made a bad decision in a rushed process and are now asking Gov. Jan Brewer to veto the right-to-refuse-service bill.

"We feel it was a solution in search of a problem," Sen. Bob Worsley, R-Mesa, said in an impromptu news conference outside the state Senate. He was joined by Sen. Steve Pierce, R-Prescott.

The two, along with Senate Majority Whip Adam Driggs, R-Phoenix, sent Brewer a letter Monday morning asking for a veto.

"While our sincere intent in voting for this bill was to create a shield for all citizens' religious liberties, the bill has instead been mischaracterized by its opponents as a sword for religious intolerance," the three wrote. "These allegations are causing our state immeasurable harm."

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/24/ariz-senators-service-refusal-bill/5798539/

[bullwinkle428]

1. Chris Hayes interviewed one of those morons last night - it's been years

since I've seen a politician come across in such a slimy, duplicitous, two-faced manner!

This creep was saying things like "it's really not nearly as bad as people are making it out to be" while literally begging Jan Brewer to veto it, in an effort to save their worthless hides. CH brought up the fact that these same assholes pushed the SAME BILL THROUGH LAST YEAR, and Brewer vetoed it the first time around.

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/arizona-sen-president-we-made-a-mistake-168933955541

Edited to add link to interview, for those who want to bask in right-wing idiocy!

[3catwoman3]

9. I saw this the segment featuring...

...this can't-find-an-expletive-strong-enough jackass last night, too, and was incredulous at his utterly lame and disingenous attempt to claim he had no idea this bill would be hurtful. Ri-i-i-i-i-i-ight!

[Tansy_Gold]

2. No, it's not the "allegations" that are harming the state

It's the stupid fucking bigot-bill that's harming the state. And the stupid fucking bigots who passed it.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

7. Well....you say potato.

That's exactly right, of course. The "allegations" are harming the state precisely only because they are true.

[monmouth3]

3. I'm thinking that "move the super bowl" petition had something to do with this also..n/t

[KG]

4. the NFL is considering yanking the SB

[Tansy_Gold]

10. Hello? I guess the AZ legislators forgot what happened

the other time a bigot tried to shove his "Christian" bigotry down everyone's throats.

Evan Mecham? Martin Luther King Jr. Day? Hello? Anyone remember what happened then?

Bueller?




(Since even Ferris isn't answering, Tansy will: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Mecham)



I love my adopted state, but its legislature rivals the one in Texas for sheer dumb ass stupidity.

[Skidmore]

5. Earth to AZ Senate dudes: You tried to wield a sword in an act of aggression against a group

and did not consider that swords cut two ways. Now you are trying to pick up a shield to fend off the volley of arrows sent in return. Are you so dense that you cannot understand that the very intolerance you seek to codify can be twisted to be used against you too?

[LeftinOH]

6. The bill has "been mischaracterized by its opponents.." They aren't taking

any responsibility for unleashing the beast, are they?

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

8. Not mischaracterized...

It's just been explained...and now people are realizing how abominable it is.

[MisterP]

11. well, that obviosuly means that those three are supreme geniuses that just played us all!

retracting something under pressure just means it was a clever way to discredit the whole thing

right?