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In fact, three of the republican lawmakers who voted for the bill last week today sent a letter to the governor urging her to veto it because the perception of the bill as anti-gay is causing our state immeasurable harm. one of those lawmakers will join me in a moment. matthew dowd, former top strategist for president george bush compared -- now, the clock is ticking. a decision on whether to sign or veto the bill is due this week and it all comes down to one person. >> the bill is transmittal and i don't have to make a decision until next friday so i've got plenty of time. >> that's right. ar...

Noted, she's been getting a lot of encouragement to take that very action. there are parallels with senate bill 1070, the controversial antiimmigration bill, but inlike that one, there isn't a strong support for the bill, at least we're not hearing those people, as we did with 1070. most is strong opposition from community groups, faith groups, business groups. >> obviously, let's talk about the politics and what's at risk here for jan brewer. what political, i guess, repercussions is she facing that gives a different landscape than what we saw during the immigration battle? >> four years ago,...

Disconnected from the mass population in arizona. has been for quite some time. senate bill 1070 reflected that. talked about the mlk issue at the opening of the show here. but the legislature usually ends up having to come back and fix these problems because they're forced to by the people of the state. once the people have recognized what kind of damage that the legislature is doing to arizona. i think that's going to be the case again if governor brewer doesn't veto this bill. hopefully, again, she'll veto this bill. >> i don't mean to beat up too much on arizona. i do want to kind of ask t...

Will veto this bill again. >> you talk about the potential economic consequences. those were mentioned in some of those clips we just played. can you quantify for it when you look back at sb-1070, what that meants what the boycotts and protests meant for the state economically? is there a sense of what this would mean economically? can you put a number on that? >> no. that's really hard. i mean, we lost numerous conventions over the years. we lost population. people left this state. i mean, the quantifiable number for that is i think unimaginable. we lost businesses, we lost tourism. we're sti...

Both myself and my community. i mean, if this bill passes in my hometown of tucson, i could walk out of my home and call a taxicab and they could refuse me service. i could have a medical incident and somebody comes to my home to provide services, and i could be refused. that's not the arizona that i want to live in. that's not the arizona that the lgbt community wants to live in. >> let me tell you as an arizonan, a native of arizona, a daughter of arizona, we already took a punch. i already took a punch in the eye after 1070. and hopefully we're starting to recuperate after that. and the las...