I'll add a link to the article for the Casa Grande Dispatch after it's published tomorrow.
Of course, to have some of my comments below make sense you have to visit the PolState comments or take my word for it that there was a less-than-smart suggestion that I ask her about coming out of the closet. Sigh.
Just finished talking to Gov. Napolitano. Somehow the lesbian issue didn't come up. Funny that.
I'm paraphrasing the conversation below. No direct quotes are involved.
Gay marriage was a valid question, but I didn't address it. Five minutes is a short time.
Primary reason for call - a state prescription drug card for seniors. The Copper Card.
I also asked her why she supported John Kerry, other than the fact that he was a member of her party. Proven leader, she said. Fought for causes in a bipartisan way with AZ Senator John McCain. Fought for victim's rights before it became a big nationwide thing.
Both she and Kerry are former prosecutors - that had impressed itself on her. I asked her whether this seems a more-than-usual contentious year in presidential politics after I said she had probably voted more times than I had (after I told her my age she agreed). She said, yes it does seem to be the worst she remembered as a voter - especially starting so early.
I also asked her thoughts on what the Arizona Commission on Salaries for Elective State Officers has proposed so far.
She ducked and said she really had not been paying attention to that, yet. The section on the increase in salaries for legislators goes directly to the voters.
The other salary recommendations - judges, other elected state offices (gov., attorney general, etc) goes to her, where she can incorporate them or not into her budget proposal. Which isn't due for a while.
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