In Another Victory for Rural Arizona, AG Kris Mayes Secures Access to 911 and Expanded Broadband

In another victory for Rural Arizona and for the free transmission of knowledge and protection of public safety, State Attorney General Kris Mayes has announced her office has secured settlement agreements with Frontier and Verizon Communications “to invest in rural broadband infrastructure, fix public safety-related service outages, and protect ratepayers from unfair costs” in Navajo … Read more

The AZ Corporation Commission Race Could Be the Top of our 2024 Ticket and Our Most Important State Level Races. If We Have the Vision to MAKE IT SO!

I’ll be the first to admit a most Arizonans haven’t a clue what the Corporation Commission is, or what it does, or who serves on it. If YOU don’t, get started on educating yourself right now and commit to teaching others.. And that widespread ignorance is exactly the way Arizona’s energy and transportation incumbents like … Read more

Watch Citizens Clean Elections Commission debates for AZ statewide races

Watch Clean Elections debates for AZ statewide offices before the General Election on  Nov. 6, 2018 In case you don’t know who’s running for Arizona highest executive offices, watch the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission debates for Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Treasurer, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Corporation Commission (2 seats) and State Mine … Read more

Statewide Democratic Citizens Clean Elections candidate debates online (updated)

The Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission hosts (during election years) candidate debates for contested races between those seeking public funding (clean) and those raising funds privately.   AZ Blue Meanie posted the entire statewide schedule earlier, but here’s the listing for the few contested Democratic races, statewide.  The Republicans have their own contested candidate forums.  Videos of these debates will be posted online as well.

Governor (3 candidates – Steve Farley, Kelly Fryer, David Garcia):  August 2,  5:30 p.m., view online at Arizona PBS

https://azpbs.org/horizon/2018/07/democratic-candidates-running-for-governor-debate-the-issues/

Secretary of State (3 candidates – Katie Hobbs, Mark Gordon, Leslie Pico): July 18, 5:30 p.m. view online at Arizona PBS /// UPDATE6/29/18 : Mark Gordon and Leslie Pico have both withdrawn, so only Katie Hobbs is running for this seat.  July 18 debate has been cancelled.

Superintendent of Public Instruction (2 candidates – Kathy Hoffman, David Schapira): https://azpbs.org/news/horizon/horizon-episodes/#episodePlayer  (held on June 13)

Corporation Commission (3 candidates for 2 seats – Sandra Kennedy, Bill Mundell, Kiana Sears):   June 27, 5:30 p.m. view online at Arizona PBS.  Updated video below:

https://azpbs.org/horizon/2018/06/clean-elections-corporation-commission-democrats-debate/

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