Politico: AZ Third Worst State to Govern

From the Politico:

Arizona

When President Obama tapped Gov. Janet Napolitano, a Democrat, to be his Homeland Security secretary, Arizona Republicans were thrilled. After all, Napolitano’s exit meant that Secretary of State Jan Brewer, a Republican, would be the next governor, handing control of both the executive and legislative branches to the GOP.

But Brewer has not exactly been blessed with a new era of party bonhomie. Instead, she finds herself embroiled in a fight that pits her against fellow Republicans who oppose her plan to raise taxes in order to ease the state’s roughly $3 billion budget shortfall.

Brewer went so far as to sue the GOP-controlled Legislature to force them into immediately sending her the budget lawmakers passed in June. The court only partially sided with Brewer, and as of this week, state legislators were still trying to iron out a budget compromise in order to avoid a government shutdown.