Not the way we usually envision Republicans moving up the leadership ladder, but we’ll take it.  This really reinforces precisely why the RSLC’s mission of recruiting, training, and electing America’s future leaders is so important.  From the Tucson Citizen:

Napolitano, 51, would be departing after six years as Arizona governor and midway through her second four-year term. She previously served as Arizona attorney general and U.S. attorney for Arizona.

Brewer, 64, is a veteran public officeholder, with more than two decades as a legislator, a Maricopa County supervisor and secretary of state. Arizona does not have a lieutenant general.

Brewer had a reputation as a fiscal hard-liner and conservative on social issues while a legislator in the 1980s and 1990s, so her taking over the governorship would mean a new approach from Napolitano’s direction.

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