Opponents of Medicaid expansion to start collecting signatures to refer to voters

June 22, 2013

Less than a week after Gov. Jan Brewer signed the Medicaid expansion plan into law, opponents are starting to collect signatures to put it on the ballot.They will start canvasing Saturday afternoon, and if they can collect 86,405 valid signatuers by September 11, the law will be put on hold, pending the November, 2014 election.

Former state Senator Ron Gould spoke about his new group, called the United Republican Alliance of Principled Conservatives, and why he is not worried about raising money for the effort.