Now can we get some sanity in AZ? Why are people voting to put innocent people in pens here?

[lonestarnot]

[Bobbieo]

1. Follow the money!

[Capn Sunshine]

2. Private Prison industry

Same goons who wrote the "Papers Please Law" and bankroll Gov. Brewer.

[lonestarnot]

4. Coming to a state near you.

[Barack_America]

3. AZ seems sadly repellant to sanity these days.

[lonestarnot]

5. I'm debating on whether phone banking today will be doing a diddly damn for this ignoranus state.

I already committed; I have to go.

[Alexander]

6. A lot of it has to do with racism.

I lived in the Phoenix area for six years, and I never heard so much open racism anywhere in my life.

It seemed a lot of people hated some group of people for some irrational reason. Even minorities would hate on other minorities.

This was less common among the ASU people I hung out with, and much more common among people who lived there and/or were from there originally.

Of course, AZ's education system being among the worst in the country doesn't help matters either.

It's a sad state of affairs in Arizona, but it does explain how people like Sheriff Joe get re-elected by landslides.