Arizona List: Re-Elect Laura Conover for Pima County Attorney

Arizona List is a statewide membership network that works to recruit, train, support and elect pro-choice Democratic women running for office in Arizona.

We want to share our deep distress at the increasingly negative campaigning in the Pima County Attorney Race.

We are proud of our strong endorsement of Pima County Attorney Laura Conover. We know her to be a woman of integrity. We admire her efforts to start new and innovative programs at the County Attorney’s office.

 Her opponent has run a campaign that does not promote himself but focuses on constant vicious attacks. It reminds us of what we are about to experience at a national level.

• A campaign that attacks an individual rather than running on one’s own merit.
• A campaign that takes situations out of context and highlights them as if they are discoveries.
• A campaign that sends negative campaign material from third parties with outside money.

 We hope that the voters of Pima County will see through this orchestrated negativity.

As County Attorney Conover stated at the NAACP meeting this week, it takes true courage to face adversity and keep moving forward.

We join our Attorney General Kris Mayes, former Attorney General Terry Goddard and hundreds in the community in reiterating our support for Laura Conover.

With the primary election days away, please take your ballot to one of the Pima Recorder’s 18 early voting sites.

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Laura Conover is the current Pima County Attorney.

A lifelong Democrat and Tucsonan, she was elected in 2020, at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the crime spike it caused. In her first term, she led her office to:

• Clear the existing homicide case backlog,
• Re-establish the Office’s fraud unit to protect our community from financial scams and crime,
• Ended the practice of discretionarily charging minors as adults,
• Stopped seeking the death penalty within her jurisdiction,
• Improved office morale by securing the first agency-wide pay raise since 1997
• Brought down the homicide and robbery rates by 36% and 39%, respectively, from two years ago, outperforming the rest of the state and nation.

Public service is a family endeavor for Laura and her family. Her brother became a police officer and now runs a highly specialized, nonuniformed mental health team within the Tucson Police Department. Before her time in office, Laura was an experienced criminal trial attorney who used her position to advocate for the rights of the poor, to advocate for victims, and to help train and mentor the next generation of attorneys tasked with keeping our community safe and sound.

Learn more about Laura on her website here.