Arizona Governor Jan Brewer received national attention in 2010 with her promotion of the state’s controversial “papers please” immigration bill. This week, she was back in the news for rejecting a congressional redistricting plan put together by a state commission. In addition to rejecting the plan, she (and the state senate) had the commission’s chair dismissed for “gross misconduct.”
The breaking news about Brewer led to one of this blog’s readers requesting that I relink to a story about how Jan Brewer first came to national attention back in 1990. At the time, Brewer shared the spotlight with Donny Osmond and the alternative newspaper New Times. So here’s a link to the story about Brewer’s first brush with fame, based on research I did back in 1990 when I lived in Arizona.