Arizona is shaming ‘deadbeat’ dads on social media

ReutersArizona Governor Doug DuceyArizona’s “Hashtag Governor”, as Doug Ducey likes to call himself, announced yesterday that his state will start using social media to publicly shame deadbeat dads who refuse to pay their child support.

“I think it’s important to find a way to convert people from prisoners to citizens, and keep them out of the system permanently”, Allen said. He focused on Arizona’s improving economy and his plans to continue supporting business friendly policies.

The governor plans to wrap promotion efforts now done by agencies like the State Office of Tourism and the Arizona-Mexico Commission into one agency.

Universities that have also seen cuts, including a $99 million reduction in the current budget that was backed by Ducey, want that funding restored. “Not on our watch”, Ducey said. He sought to clarify that what is often called the “Western Water Crisis”, does not include Arizona, which has had a groundwater management plan in place for almost 40 years.

To help facilitate that, he signed an executive order creating the Governor’s Council on the Sharing Economy.

But Ducey and the GOP-led Legislature are unlikely to deliver all that is asked.

Gov. Doug Ducey is set to lay out his priorities for the session in his State of the State address at 2 p.m.

“We have an interest in making sure our schools, especially education programs that directly effect workforce readiness is well funded by also of the highest quality”, Medler said.

House minority leader Rep. Eric Meyer, D-Paradise Valley, said Tuesday that Democrats will push to restore last year’s funding cuts to education, welfare and infrastructure now that budget analysts say there is an additional $218 million in ongoing revenue and $555 million in general-funding surplus. Democrats also proposed a series of tax credits to increase economic development.

Monday afternoon’s address will come just after lawmakers hold formal opening ceremonies for the 2016 session.

“We have extra dollars, and what we have heard for the last seven years that I have been here is that checkbooks have been empty and we can’t invest in our schoolbooks and in our children”. In addition to the Governor’s plan, there are bills ready to be introduced this session that would cut the prison population substantially, eliminating the need to commit the state to another costly 20-year contract with a for-profit prison corporation.