Arizona: Two Can Play The 'Make It Hurt' Shutdown Game

The other day I posted this.

And now there is this.

Policy experts say Arizona appears to be the only state in the nation so far to have withheld welfare checks because of the federal shutdown, a move key state lawmakers want Gov. Jan Brewer to reverse.

Does the latter have anything to do with the former?

It doesn’t matter, the only relevant point is that the Democrats refused to fund it.