PHOENIX — Nearly two weeks after vetoing a widely popular bill to expand the sale of home-cooked foods, Gov. Katie Hobbs still won’t say what she wants changed in order to get her to sign a new version.
Hobbs on Monday dodged repeated inquiries about the legislation or her veto despite the fact it had been approved by broad bipartisan majorities. In fact, she would not answer any questions at all after giving a 2 1/2 minute speech at an annual ceremony to honor fallen officers of the Department of Public Safety before being driven off by her DPS security detail.
And so far the governor and her newly hired press aide have refused to address bipartisan complaints about what some saw as a racist tinge in her veto message: She wrote that allowing what has become known as the “tamale bill” to become law would open the door to items being cooked in home kitchens with “rodent or insect infestation.”
