Arizona’s Brewer Prays Before Taking on Her Own Party Over Taxes
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After assuming Arizona’s governorship in January 2009, Jan Brewer came to a conclusion most Republicans don’t want to reach: There was no way to fill a $3 billion deficit without raising taxes.
“I spent many a night sitting on my patio at 2 o’clock in the morning praying,” Brewer, 66, said in an interview this month in her office on the top floor of the Executive Tower in Phoenix. “It was a decision I deliberated on for a long time.”