Arizona legislature does a sine die – ends with a thud and a bad budget

At least it's over

A quick review of the term "sine die" as it pertains for the Arizona legislative session that just ended on Saturday. A budget was passed at 9:55 PM. It's not good, and I think we could do better if we have at least one house of the state legislature controlled by Democrats.
The most important aspect of sine die is that for lawmakers "time to go home". The damage has been done. Now let's fix it!

 

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