8/27/2010
By Joanna Dodder Nellans
The Daily Courier
PRESCOTT - U.S. Sen. John McCain and Gov. Jan Brewer offered ways to reduce their respective government budgets during their joint speeches in Prescott Valley Friday, while continuing their tough talk against illegal immigration.
Brewer said the state's new SB 1070 law against illegal immigration is not dividing the nation."We have united Americans," she said.
After noting the majority of Americans support the SB 1070 legislation, McCain cited the 72 bodies of Central and South American illegal immigrants found Tuesday in Mexico near the border.
"I'm growing a little weary of the Mexican government criticizing us when that kind of thing is going on in Mexico," McCain said. "Why don't they clean up their own act?"
Those comments brought loud applause from the "Yavapai Business Leaders Coffee" audience at the StoneRidge golf club in Prescott Valley.
"What a great place to start your morning," Brewer said of the Prescott area on her second morning in a row here.
"You care about what's going on with government," she added, referring to Yavapai County's traditional top ranking in voter turnout. Preliminary results from Tuesday's primary show Yavapai with the best county turnout so far at 40.86 percent, compared to the
statewide average of 28.18 percent.
In a short reference to the Iraq War, McCain suggested that during President Obama's speech next Tuesday to mark the end of the war's troop drawdown, Obama should admit he was wrong when he opposed the Iraq troop surge.
"We can do the same thing in Afghanistan, but we have to tell the enemy we are not leaving until the job is done," McCain said.
Brewer said efficiencies, tax reform and budget reform are necessary because Arizona still faces a $1 billion state deficit, despite already implementing $2.2 billion worth of cuts to bring the budget down to match its $8 billion in revenues. "We're going to look at the corporate taxes and see what we can do to adjust that," she added.
That probably won't happen any time soon, as politicians are busy campaigning before early voting starts in the general election Oct. 7.
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