The way for their success, that we passed onto them a delaware whose brightest days were still to come. Thank you. [applause] Arizona Governor jan brewer gives the Arizona State of the state address. She spoke to a joint session of the legislation in the House Chamber for about 35 minutes. [applause] thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Speaker towbin, president pierce, honorable senators and representatives of the legislature, chief Justice Burger and justices of the supreme court, constitutional officers, elected leaders, honored guests, tribal leaders, and my fellow arizonans. Two decades ago, nearly to the day, i entered this chamber for the first time as a legislator. Higher member it well, taking my oath of office. Friends i remember it well, taking my oath of office. Friends and family gathered. For all the change across those 30 years, it still remains the same. Our annual ritual here continues. This is my fifth time at the lectern. I am so grateful to have been blessed w
And jim van dehei is with us. You know, mika, its really something. You talked about arizona and this race between mcsally. Weve seen, unfortunate, so many negative things over the past 2 1 2, 3 1 2 years, bringing people together, he could have exploited it. Could have raised millions of dollars about being a victim of liberal pop culture. He chose, instead, to show grace. Another really great example of that came last night and it came, actually, from Martha Mcsally. And it was just a short video that she made. But my gosh, it spoke volumes and it was the type of character that we just need to see in our leaders and we saw in her last night. Nbc news has declared Kyrsten Sinema the winner over Martha Mcsally as the final ballots broke heavily in the democrats favor. Mcsally appeared in a video posted to social media where shes saying to her supporters and took note of sinemas barrier breaking win. Everybody, i just called Kyrsten Sinema and congratulated her. I wish her all success a