Arizona Treasurer

SWAG List of Arizona State Candidates in 2018

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Time once again for the “silly wild ass guess” (SWAG) list of candidates who are running for the legislature and statewide offices in Arizona. This list is subject to revision as candidates enter races or decide to withdraw. The candidates listed below have filed with the Arizona Secretary of State. There may be some errors as to current status, so if you have information about the current status of a candidate, please post the information in the comments.

The candidate petitions filing deadline is May 30, 2018. You can sign a candidate’s petition and/or make a $5 contribution to a  Citizens Clean Elections (CCE) candidate on the Arizona Secretary of State’s E-Qual page.

The primary election is Tuesday, August 28, 2018.

Arizona Legislature

District 1

Jo Craycraft (D) Senate (CCE)
Karen Fann (R) Senate
Ed Gogek (D) House (CCE)
Jan Manolis (D) House
Noel Campbell (R) House
Jodi Rooney (R) House
David Stringer (R) House
Stephanie Snyder (GRN) House
Matthew Daniel (IND) House (CCE)

District 2

Andrea Dalessandro (D) Senate (CCE)
Bobby Wilson (R) Senate (CCE)
Rosanna Gabaldón (D) House (CCE)
Daniel Hernandez, Jr. (D) House
Anthony Sizer (R) House (CCE)

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State Treasurer Jeff DeWit blasts ‘Team Ducey’

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The debate to watch is not the GOP clown car of presidential candidates, but the debate between Governor Doug Ducey, the ice cream man hired by Koch Industries to run their Southwest subsidiary formerly known as the state of Arizona, and Arizona’s state Treasurer, Jeff DeWit.

DeWitI kinda like this DeWit guy. He’s not willing to read from the “Kochtopus” script like all the other Tea-Publicans in this state.  He actually takes the responsibility of his job as state Treasurer seriously.

Lately he’s playing the role of the kid who points out that the emperor has no clothes, and that the governor’s so-called education funding plan to raid the state land trust is reckless and irresponsible.

For that, DeWit is being attacked by the “Kochtopus” evil henchmen for straying from the script and not singing the praises of “Il Duce.”

Over the weekend, DeWitt pointed out that there was a nearly $200 million drop in the value of Arizona’s permanent land trust in the past three months because of the recent stock market turmoil, highlighting the risks of Ducey’s plan to rely on high investment returns to power his school funding plan. Land trust value drop highlights Ducey education plan risk:

The fund’s value was $5.2 billion the week Ducey announced his plan in June and was $5 billion last week. But Ducey told thousands of listeners on a Tuesday evening telephone-town hall designed to drum up support for his plan that the trust was now valued at $5.3 billon. [So you’re saying he lied.]

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