AZ Governor: Chill Out

Gov. Jan Brewer doesn't seem too worried about the threats of boycotts against her state:

Gov. Jan Brewer is dismissing the threat of an economic boycott over the new state immigration law she signed last week.

Appearing Monday at an Arizona Town Hall in Tucson, Brewer said she doesn't believe the law is "going to have the kind of economic impact that some people think it might."

U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, a Tucson Democrat, has called for a boycott of convention business for the state and other calls have come for a boycott of Arizona goods, services and tourism because of the nationally controversial immigration law.

The Arizona Daily Star reports that Brewer says outrage over the ability of police to ask people for citizenship documentation will fade. She recalled how another uproar faded when she was secretary of state and rode herd over a requirement that voters show ID at the polls.

I guess the refried bean protest didn't have much effect.

Voter ID should be a federal requirement, but the same people who are promoting "rights" for illegal aliens also want them to vote whether they have are citizens or not, and requiring ID at the polls would mess that up.  They're doing a lot of things right in Arizona.  Now if they can just do something about John McCain...

And perhaps Gov. Brewer is not too worried because she's seen these numbers (from Morning Jolt):

I know we're constantly being told that the new immigration law in Arizona is a horrific affront to all right-thinking folk -- Jon Stewart contended that it made Arizona "the meth lab of democracy" -- but it seems that, as with the health care law, vast swaths of Americans didn't get that memo. "A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that 60% of voters nationwide favor such a law, while 31% are opposed. Seventy-seven percent (77%) of Republicans support the law along with 62% of voters not affiliated with either major party. Democratic voters are evenly divided on the measure."

Got that? When this is referred to as a "divisive" bill, that apparently means it divides the Democratic party.

I'm sure the Dems are frantically judge shopping right now to try and find someone who will declare this law unconstitutional. The will of the voters just doesn't matter to them.