Dialing-Back Ducey: Just Another Hand Played-Out In The Trump's House of Cards

Is the governor really that stone-cold stupid about Arizona's economy, and the Arizona Commerce Authority after Trump announced Mexico tariffs?  Ducey posted yesterday on Twitter.
Who's putting words in Ducey's mouth for Double-Talk like this
“Everyone knows I am opposed to tariffs and deeply value Arizona’s relationship with Mexico. I prioritize national security and a solution to our humanitarian crisis at the border above commerce."

OK. Opposed to tariffs ["Everyone knows that"] and COMMERCE is #3 on his list of priorities after "national security" and our "humanitarian crisis"  and what about that new e-commerce hub Mesa Skybridge?
Mebbe Hizzoner John Giles who's hyped and bragged about free trade with Mexico from the creation of the only ecommerce center in The Southwest promising thousands of jobs just might want to get into another huddle with Governor Ducey.
. . . Otherwise the Skybridge Ozone at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway just might not get off-the-ground
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Is Ducey just "the water-boy" for the Trump-Pence Administration or is treading on thin ice?
Mexico's president fires back at Trump's tariffs threat

Published on May 31, 2019

Views: 149,242 at time of upload to this blog

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador responds to President Trump's threat to impose tariffs on Mexico until they take steps to reduce the flow of migrants.#CNN #News

Time to Chill-Out and take a look at the consequences:
Trump's latest announcement could spell bad news for both Arizona's and the global economy.
The US will impose tariffs on Mexico, says President Trump

31 May 2019

Steve Holland Reuters

Frank Jack DanielReporter, Reuters

" . . . The announcement rattled investors who feared that worsening trade friction could hurt the global economy. The Mexican peso, U.S. stock index futures and Asian stock markets tumbled on the news, including the shares of Japanese automakers who ship cars from Mexico to the United States.

The president’s decision, announced on Twitter and in a subsequent statement, was a direct challenge to Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and took the Mexican government by surprise on a day when it had started a formal process to ratify a trade deal with the United States and Canada (USMCA).

It raised the risk of devastating economic relations with the biggest U.S. trade partner for goods. Mexico, heavily dependent on cross-border trade, rose to that ranking as a result of Trump’s trade war with China.

The measures against Mexico open up a new front on trade and if implemented are bound to trigger retaliation that would hit heartland, Trump-supporting farming and industrial states.
Higher tariffs will start at 5% on June 10 and increase monthly up to 25% on Oct. 1, unless Mexico takes immediate action, he said.
. . . Trump’s directive also spelled the potential for chaos for his efforts to get the U.S. Congress to approve the USMCA deal, which he negotiated as a replacement to the North American Free Trade Agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada.

Doug Ducey, the governor of Arizona, which shares a 370-mile (595-km) border with Mexico, said on Twitter that he spoke to the White House and it was time for Congress to act on border security and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. . ."
Source: World Economic Forum

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Don't really like to get dicey with Governor Doug Ducey (or other politicians) but readers of this blog know how far that implausible denial goes!
If he's finding that insecure foster-child inside himself looking for a new daddy, perhaps he might look in other places or for a different deserving-of-respect role model - a step-mother who had his job as governor of The Great State of Arizona years before in 2003-2009 when he was growing up.

Just a timely coincidence yesterday and just a few hours before Trump announced a new Executive Order on Mexican tariffs KJZZ did a podcast on 

Former Gov. Janet Napolitano: The Border 'Is Not Inherently A Security Risk'

By Steve Goldstein   Published: Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 11:59am

Updated: Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 12:00pm

Listen to the podcast > KJZZ The Show

Former Gov. Janet Napolitano: The Border 'Is Not Inherently A Security ...

KJZZ-20 hours ago

In a tough election period for Democrats, Janet Napolitano came on the scene and was elected Arizona's attorney general. She then narrowly won the race for governor in 2002 before being re-elected in a 2006 landslide.

But on the national level, Napolitano is best known for taking on one of the most challenging positions in federal government — secretary of the Department Homeland Security. She served for five years in that position as one of the original cabinet secretaries in the Obama Administration.

National security remains at the heart of Napolitano’s first book, "How Safe Are We?"

The Show spoke with her when she was in Scottsdale for an event with Poisoned Pen Bookstore.

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Is it just another coincidence that the first DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano - a tough administrator and lawyer who served as

• the 21st Governor of Arizona from 2003 to 2009
• the United States Secretary of Homeland Security from 2009 to 2013, under President Barack Obama. has spoken out in recent days

In her new book, "How Safe Are We?," former Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano reflects on how secure the U.S. has been since 9/11. According to Napolitano, the most urgent threats America faces are climate change and cybersecurity -- not a crisis at the southern border.
We'll talk to Napolitano, who implemented Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in 2012 under President Obama, about immigration policy under President Trump, the current state of the Department of Homeland Security, as well as her role as president of the University of California system at a time of admissions scandals and free speech controversies in a podcast 08 April on KQED: Former Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano Asks: 'How Safe Are We?'