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Signing SB 1070 really painted her into a corner. Perhaps this is her reading the tea leaves and realizing that if she wants to move into national office, she's going to need to move out of that corner and farther toward the political center.

I'm sure that the Tea Partiers on the far right will mourn this as a loss, but anyone with more than a passing relationship with moderate sensibilities will count this as a win for common sense.

Tuscon Sentinel: http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/..._brewer_vetoes

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed a bill Monday that would have required presidential candidates to provide their birth certificates to appear on the ballot, and another that would have allowed guns to be carried on school grounds.

Brewer also vetoed a bill that would have directed the governor to set up an alliance with other states to regulate health care, in a challenge to the federal government.

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So-called "birthers," pushing a theory that President Barack Obama is not a natural-born citizen as required by the Constitution, want to force candidates to disclose their birth certificates. The irony, of course, is that Obama's opponent in the 2008 election, Arizona Sen. John McCain, was likely ineligible to hold the nation's highest office because of the circumstances of his birth, while Obama was born in Hawaii to a mother who was a citizen.

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The gun bill didn't define the "public right of way" where weapons could be carried on school campuses, and included K-12 schools where firearms are prohibited by federal law, Brewer wrote.

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Brewer's veto message on the interstate health care alliance bill said the measure would violate the Arizona Constitution.

"By directing the Governor (sic) to sign a compact, Senate Bill 1592 violates the separation of powers requirement established by Article 3," she wrote to Pearce.

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She is still a polarizing figure and I really doubt she could make it on the national level, but a whole bunch of crazy was elected last time around. I guess the silver lining is that she is attempting to put the genie back in the bottle.