Someone Should Ask Kimberly Yee if Purchasing an AK47 for a Seven Year Old Would be a Legitimate Expense for Arizona’s ESA Program

With the support of MAGA “Fake Elector,” “Troll Farm” and Hobbs obstructionist Jake Hoffman, Arizona State Treasurer Kimberly Yee has declared her candidacy to become the next Superintendent of Public Instruction and overseer of the billion dollar a year Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA)-Arizona Private School Voucher-Home School Indoctrination and Welfare for the Wealthy Program.

Yee, a Republican, would challenge incumbent Tom Horne for the nomination in their party’s primary next year.

In her opening remarks as a candidate, Yee said:

“We must protect educational opportunities for all and I will work diligently to strengthen our school choice options so parents can always choose the educational environment best suited for their needs.”

Translation: I am on the side of those who want to indoctrinate their children in the home or religious-reactionary extremist school program of their choice.

With Hoffman calling Tom Horne “The single greatest threat to school choice and the ESA program,” Yee, in comments to KTAR, said the current Superintendent has set “arbitrary policies that are made out of the superintendent’s office” with the development of the Empowerment Scholarship Account handbook and denying $35 million in reimbursement requests from families for questionable expenses like $16,000 cellos and a vascetomy test kit, especially those of home school students which are increasingly making up a significant portion of the MAGA Republican Primary Base.

In reporting from KTAR, Horne rebutted Yee’s assertions, saying:

“It’s well established by judges that I do have the authority to do that, I have the duty to do it. Anyone handling taxpayer funds has a duty to make sure that it’s done honestly and reasonably, and you’d think the state treasurer would know that, but she obviously doesn’t.”

At the State Capitol event where Treasurer Yee declared her candidacy, Craig Harris of 12 News, the journalist who has been broadcasting a series on the ESA program, asked the candidate if there should be any limits on what parents can purchase through the ESA system, she responded “I believe in school choice and an educational free marketplace” and said that the expenses Harris and other journalists have questioned represent a small amount of the requests.

Someone should ask Treasurer Yee if purchasing an AK 47 for a seven year old under the guise of teaching the child hunting and how to use a firearm would be an exercise of “school choice and an educational free marketplace.”

Harris also pointed out that Yee and her Treasury staff have been less than forthcoming about releasing all the records on how the billion dollars going into the ESA program have been spent with her saying the third party vendor, Class Wallet, has control of that information and there was a rule change after releasing them in 2023.

Three words to that claim. Bull Fecal Matter. As Harris pointed out through his reporting, any Treasury staff member can download the documents upon request.

No wonder Jake Hoffman recruited her.

She will fester an environment that condones waste, fraud, abuse, grift, and theft of tax payer dollars. All character traits of someone in the MAGA movement like their dear leader American Duce wannabe as long as it supports their extremist- reactionary and money in their pocketbook causes.

Reacting to Twelve News on the Yee candidacy, Horne said, “I always knew Jake Hoffman was a wild extremist. I never thought of her (Yee) that way…Shes adopted this philosophy. This weird philosophy that Jake has been promoting that I should have to pay $5,000 for a watch or a $24,000 golf simulator.”