Arizona performed well in the 2020 Census, despite a lower-than-expected population figure that cost the state a projected 10th congressional district and potentially hundreds of millions in federal funding over the next decade, Gov. Doug Ducey told reporters on Thursday.... Read more»
U.S. Census Bureau
Ducey doesn’t think the state’s population was undercounted and doesn’t believe anything went wrong with the census in Arizona, despite the state not meeting the expected threshold needed to qualify for a 10th congressional district.
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Ducey says, “Spending doesn’t produce people.”
What a nitwit.
Tell Toyota (or any of the hundreds of large advertisers) that spending doesn’t produce buyers.
As Trump and Ducey have shown, there are no specific qualifications, nor a minimum intelligence level, to hold high public office in this country.
His support of Trump’s intentional muddling of the 2020 Census conversation will be his ongoing legacy long after he leaves office to sell ice cream again, or whatever he decides to do. (Maybe he can become a waiter at Mar-a-Lago, at least until Trump is taken to prison.)
God save us from Trumpies.