By Connor Radnovich and Mary Shinn | Cronkite News
For Arizona lawmakers, President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday was either an urgent national call to arms or a ruinous plan for big government, depending on which side of the aisle they sit on.
“It was a call to arms, not just a challenge to Republicans but a call to Congress to do something,” said Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Tucson. “Congress may have seen this as in-your-face, but the American people probably said, ‘Finally.’”
But Rep. David Schweikert, R-Fountain Hills, saw “no interest in bipartisanship” in the speech that was just a continuation of the “left-winged speech he started giving at the inauguration.”
“We did not see a leader willing to work together to solve our economic crisis – we saw wedge politics at its best,” Schweikert said in a prepared statement.
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