Wow issue to be dealing with, in Arizona of all places. Certainly reads like the whole direct democracy thing in Arizona only applies if the Democrat Governor and AG want it to. Isn’t that the point of voter approved propositions – letting voters have their say? Don’t these things get vetted BEFORE they get on the ballot?

Legal papers filed in Maricopa County Superior Court contend Gov. Janet Napolitano is ignoring the plain language of Proposition 200, approved by voters in 2004. That measure, approved on a 56-44 margin, denies “state and local benefits” to those who are neither citizens or legal residents.What happened, according to the lawsuit, is that Attorney General Terry Goddard subsequently issued a legal opinion concluding the initiative applies only to programs in Title 46 – the state Welfare Code – and not to programs like the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the state’s health insurance for the poor. And even within the Welfare Code, Goddard concluded it does not apply to anything that involves federal money.

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