The buck (on dreamers driving) does NOT stop with Ducey

EJ Montini

opinion columnist

Erika Andiola poses in a poster of an Arizona driver’s license at the state Capitol following a judge's initial injunction allows dreamers to get licenses.

Gov. Doug Ducey could have made this call.

Instead he passed the buck to new Attorney General Mark Brnovich, who made the wrong call.

So, is this how it's going to work with the new governor? The most controversial decisions get shuffled off to others?

At lease former Gov. Jan Brewer called her own shots.

Brnovich has decided that he's going to waste more taxpayer money in an attempt to appeal a federal judge's ruling that forced Arizona to grand drivers licenses to dreamers, those young people who qualify for the Obama administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

U.S. District Court Judge David Campbell made his initial injunction permanent, kids have applied (and received) licenses, the world has not ended.

But Brnovich wants to waste more money.

And Ducey, who handed the case over the the attorney general, is letting him.

The state's going to lose, again. Taxpayers are going to lose, again.

And voters are left to wonder if Ducey will ever tackle a really difficult, potentially divisive but ultimately important issue -- again.