Politics. and new companies get the support they need. however, she is done a little bit of everything here in arizona, including but not limited to becoming the first woman mayor of serving as a state representative and minority whip in that legislative body. serving as a state senator, working as a campaign director for the leukemia society. after surviving cancer twice herself and teaching elementary school students for five years. this is exactly the kind of person i want to talk to about the state. joining me now is the a for mentioned commissioner who knows a bit about arizona s local politics, it s health care, s education systems, welcome. there is a lot, one of the things i asked my panel about arizona voters yesterday was, what is the country need to know about arizona politics right now? we know some things, we know there s some crazy stuff going on in your elections right now. we know there is a lot of
Generations of his family have called arizona home. he s been covering arizona politics for 13 years since the midterm elections in 2020. he is my great friend, it is so great to be with you in person. i know, i know. this is a weird one. i want to read from what you and then wrote on nbc. users on the twitter-like platform truth social have discussed forming mule parties were dropbox tailgate s since late july, looking to organize volunteers to surveil drop boxes. on that platform, the former presidents account has shared posts by users advocating for dropbox or violence, including the message of box. one organization, clean elections usa, have been pushing for trump supporters on truth social to create a ballot tailgate parties to monitor drop boxes nationwide for suspected meals since august. what is this all? about what or mules? are they real, where did they come from? what is going on? we started looking into this
Very different. the last midterm was in the middle of donald trump s first election, this one, we have a new president, and i knew. congress things are changing. things are shifting. arizona is always at the tip of the spear when it comes to changes and things that happen. i m very proud of my hudson s state, i hope we couldn t really, i ll get back to this come together. arizona has already been a place of new ideas, i have always been a place where folks can take their families, and just do the things that we need to do away from all of the nonsense of government. we just want to do our job. i just want to do my job, like i did when i ran in the 2020 election. we did a great job. i was the county according to time, i built up bipartisan system then made things happen. well we beat the even at their own game. i m part of the team the. built most of them are still, there were still running great elections there in arizona, people can have good confidence if they get their ballots in
Homosexual acts, which by the way could be two guys holding hands. it wasn t defined, that was one of the big problems. when we had this bill introduced in the education committee, we tore holes through it. republicans said this is a bad bill because three years ago, in a bipartisan way, it was repealed. it made it illegal to even acknowledge that the lgbtq community exists. this bill try to put it back in in a backdoor way, thinking that no one would pick up on the fact that we were literally going to be banning books which wasn t defined. it wasn t defined, that s one of the parts about it that is insidious. but, the obvious part about it, which is what we talk about in book bans all the time, is the message it sends about if your career or if you are a woman who has done something. we are not talking about these things in front of our kids. you are one of the few game and in the state legislature. i just want to ask you personally, how do you fight that battle? it was on my bi
Questions raised about the last election and there was an audit that seabreeze suspicious. they couldn t find a different result. where are we now in the state that has such a rich history of politics, democratic and conservative levels. i would say, one thing you should know about arizona is that we are unique in regards to the issues that we care about. there are issues that are very important for arizona people. one of those is the economy, the one is our democracy. also, in regards to health care as well. the wide variety of issues. i would say right now, first and foremost, for many families across arizona, the economy and how that affects them day in and day out. these are kitchen table issues that families are struggling to deal with day in and day out. they want to hear about solutions about what you either do. how are they going to help and succeed in becoming great economically, for the rents,