Brewer Wins Endorsement of Arizonas Leading Job Creators

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No economic recovery is possible without them starting and sustaining it, and today their leading representative association endorsed Gov. Jan Brewer for re-election.

"It's Economics 101," said Farrell Quinlan, Arizona state director for the National Federation of Independent Business, Arizona's leading small business association with 7,500 members. "Small businesses employ more working Arizonans than big businesses, big government, and big labor ever will, and it's Main Street enterprises that generate almost all new jobs--essential to sustaining an economic recovery.

"In endorsing Jan Brewer for Arizona governor, NFIB knows she understands that small businesses have different challenges in remaining solvent than big businesses do," said Quinlan. "She demonstrated this upon taking office last year when she stood by Arizona small business owners and declared a moratorium on new rules and regulations. She proved it again this year when she called the Legislature into special session to empower her to defend Arizona against an unconstitutional national healthcare law after Attorney General Terry Goddard refused to."

NFIB is a co-plaintiff in federal court along with Governor Brewer on behalf of the state of Arizona and 19 states' attorneys general challenging the individual mandate and other provisions of the recently passed healthcare legislation.

"We commend Attorney General Terry Goddard for identifying job creation as one of his campaign's top priorities," said Quinlan. "However, NFIB believes Jan Brewer's record is superior to Terry Goddard's on a broad range of small business issues from efforts to curb lawsuit abuse to scoring real achievements in regulatory reform. Jan Brewer is a proven friend of small business where Terry Goddard's long record in public service is mixed at best."

The formal endorsement for Jan Brewer was made by Save America's Free Enterprise (SAFE) Trust, the political action committee of the National Federation of Independent Business in Arizona.

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