Arizona has a history of electing women to public office. In 1932, Arizona elected Isabella Greenway to the US House of Representatives. In 1972, State Senator Sandra Day O’Connor was the first female president of the Arizona Senate. In 1998, Arizona voters elected five women to run the state government— Jane Hull (Governor), Betsy Bayless … Read more
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Well, it seems that Arizona Democrats and progressives have a lot to be happy and thankful for this Thanksgiving 2018: First Democratic woman U.S. Senator Krysten Sinema three other Democrats won statewide offices: Sec. of State Katie Hobbs, Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman, and back on the Corporation Commission — Sandra Kennedy. Here in … Read more
Full Disclosure: This writer is a PC for LD 18. In a post-election legislative district monthly meeting with Felicia Rotellini, the chair of the Arizona Democratic Party, present, a jubilant crowd filled the LD 18 Democratic office in Tempe as they celebrated the victory of 92 percent of the district’s Democratic candidates including the reelection … Read more
Today is targeted to be the last day for completion of tabulating ballots, however it could take days for Maricopa and Pima Counties to verify and tabulate all of the remaining early and provisional ballots. According to the AZ Data Guru, there are still 147,000 ballots left to be counted statewide, 126,000 of those in … Read more