Scarp: We lose when the state plays with the price of fame

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• Arizona Willie posted at 10:42 am on Sun, Jan 27, 2013.

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  Republicans always preach " small government " and " government should let people alone " --- except when THEY want to tell everyone else how to live and what to do and when to do it.

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• downtownresident posted at 10:56 am on Sun, Jan 27, 2013.

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  Hail to the protector of goldfish and lottery winners. This is such a monumental waste of taxpayer money that he should be impeached.
  With Arizona at the bottom of the national education heap because the legislature under-funds it every year, and a child protective service that is ineffective, at best, this mental midget wants to waste our time protecting goldfish and lottery winners.
  God help us all, because the simpletons in the Arizona Legislature are too busy looking out for themselves to worry about the people who pay their wages.

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• chatmandu002 posted at 12:17 pm on Sun, Jan 27, 2013.

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  I have to disagree with Mark on this one. It's sort of like the newspaper that printed the names and addresses of gun permit holders. Why should people that are following the law be forced to have their privacy put out to the open public where possible crimes or harassment maybe committed against them. If a lottery winner doesn't want their name out there then fine, it should be their choice to share their good luck or remain unknown.

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• Deddzone posted at 2:33 pm on Sun, Jan 27, 2013.

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  I've lost count how many times I've asked these goofballs to focus on education and jobs. How many lottery winners have had their children kidnapped? Honestly most move away...

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• remo303 posted at 2:46 am on Mon, Jan 28, 2013.

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  Spam? really? There were no curse words, innuendo nor commonly-accepted less-than-politically-correct words or phrases in my comment.

  Perhaps the Trib simply dislikes dissent.

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• Arizona Willie posted at 8:11 am on Mon, Jan 28, 2013.

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  remo303: EVERYONE has been bitten by the SPAM filter.

  It appears that the EVT doesn't care.

  We all complain but they don't turn it off, nor do they fix it, nor do they explain what the rules are to prevent activation of the SPAM filter.

  All the posters would be very happy if they even told us what the rules are to avoid the SPAM filter.

  Instead, we all play Russian Roulette because the SPAM filter will perhaps bite us on a two word post or our first post of the day, any time we may get bit by the darn thing.

  JOIN THE CROWD.

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• rhmnlc posted at 2:18 pm on Tue, Jan 29, 2013.

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  I haven't read enough of your articles to know what sorts of legislation qualifies as nanny stateish. Nanny State is a cute term but I'd welcome your full exposition as to where the line is drawn between providing for the general welfare and nanny state. Are you up to it?

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