Protect Arizona NOW founder and Chairman, Kathy McKee, expresses her group’s outrage at both Governor Napolitano’s delay in signing the proclamation enacting Proposition 200, as well as Attorney General Terry Goddard’s delay in sending the request for preclearance of Proposition 200’s voting portions to the Department of Justice.  States McKee, “Their delay was obviously to give our opponents more time to file their lawsuit and get an injunction against Prop 200 that was filed yesterday.  Here we are 29 days after the election, and these two very unabashed opponents to Proposition 200 expect the public to believe there was some kind of valid purpose behind their refusal to do their jobs.  I guarantee you I could have gotten the preclearance request to the DOJ ready to file in one day – and I sure don’t have the army of employees the Attorney General has.  The Governor has known of the likelihood of passage of Prop 200 for over a year, yet her excuse for not signing the proclamation “forthwith” after the Secretary of State’s completion of the convass on November 22, as required by the Arizona Constitution), was that DES (the welfare department) was not ready to implement Prop 200. This is a sad commentary on both her ability to govern and her character.  If the people of this state, including the 47% of Hispanics who voted for Proposition 200, ever forget this treachery, they deserve the arrogant, unresponsive government we have.”