Retiring Guy's Digest: GET ME REWRITE: Arizona GOP Governor Doug Ducey continues to kill off his base

Headline from AlterNet

NPR, 9/27/2021

Through a spokesman, Republican Gov. Doug Ducey called the decision "an example of judicial overreach."

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The ruling may also impact Ducey's efforts to discourage Arizona public school leaders from requiring students and staff to wear masks.

In August, he announced grants to boost per-pupil funding in public and charter schools, but only for schools that make masks optional and keep classrooms open for in-person learning. Ducey is also offering families who want to opt out of school mask mandates vouchers to cover private school tuition. Those programs are funded by federal COVID-19 relief funds.

The majority of Arizona residents live in areas that are at extremely high risk of Covid spread.

9/6/2021 update, "Arizona governor Doug Ducey has been a COVIDIOT from day 1 of the pandemic", .starts here.

New York Times, 9/1/2021

[Ducey] pledged to withhold millions of dollars in federal pandemic relief from schools that pass mask mandates in defiance of a state law that takes effect at the end of September. He offered $7,000 vouchers to families that opt to leave districts that require face coverings. Masking decisions, he said, belonged to parents, not school officials.\
“In Arizona we are pro-parent,” Mr. Ducey said at a recent news conference. “I want parents to do what they think is the right thing to do.”

Arizona's current 7-day average of new Covid cases (3,225) is as high as it's been since February 8, 2021, and four-and-a-half times higher than it was a year ago (582).