Gov. Doug Ducey is not up to dealing with COVID-19, Arizona. You're on your own

[Mike 03]

AZCentral (Arizona Republic)
EJ Montini
June 29 6:29 AM

Opinion: Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is trying to manage the novel coronavirus like a business. It's been a disaster.

Gov. Doug Ducey is in over his head.

It’s not his fault. He got into politics with the idea that he could run state government like a business, and voters fell for it.

And who knows, maybe it would have worked if there were no actual crisis to face. If nothing came along that put people’s lives at risk.

But the coronavirus pandemic did come along. And dealing with a health crisis is not like running a business.

And Ducey has not been up to the task.

And he hasn’t surrounded himself with people who can deal with it.

We're setting the worst kind of records

Instead he has followed the disastrous example of President Donald Trump in dealing with it.

And so we’ve gone from the governor’s claim in May that we are “clearly on the other side of this pandemic.”

To his claim earlier this month that “we are not in a crisis situation.”

Read more here: https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2020/06/29/gov-doug-ducey-cant-handle-coronavirus-arizona-alone/3277100001/

[Iliyah]

1. K & R!

[Ohiogal]

2. Why, oh, why

Do voters always fall for that line, “We need to run this country/school system/local government / like a business”?

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Boycott Arizona.....

Why even go there while it is hot? Stay away for the rest of the year and into next.

Did Trump not say that the Corona Virus was going to go away with the heat? Looks like it is heating up with even more fervor.

[Ptah]

6. I can't boycott Arizona.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

8. Tough if you live there. I understand.

I was there in January and into February in Phoenix and Sedona when it was cool. This health crisis was just starting and no one knew about it. I watched the Impeachment trial during my non-tourist hours.

[Midnightwalk]

4. We are running government like a business

Siphon all the money to the people at the top.

Pay the workers as little as possible. Cut benefits whenever possible.

Cut corners regardless of injuries and deaths.

Average workers are screwed by their employers all the time. I hear people complaining about no raises for years, having to work harder and bone head decisions that cost their jobs but never cost the executives theirs.

I tell them they should love that because that’s what they vote for in government. We don’t talk politics after that.

[Raster]

5. Governor Douche*, our own AZ tRump*

[madeup64]

7. In all fairness he probably sees his time at Cold Stone as perfectly relevant

Due to the confidentiality agreements not much is public but it appears Ducey and Co. weren't on the up and up regarding Cold Stone Creamery's true financial health (the grew to much to quick and knew better but touted store openings while not saying much about the stores that closed) leading to a dispute initiated by the buyer and them eventually paying a reduced cost of "up to" 16 million off the 80 million asking price. So his ability to "fudge" the numbers certainly will be helpful to his future AZ political prospects when dealing with the Covid-19 crisis.

In the middle of lockdown he constantly touted a "surge" of testing was forthcoming but it doesn't seem like it ever did with our pitiful testing numbers.