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Paradise Valley School Board Member Kerry Baker Seeks Reelection, Focusing on a Students First Policy

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These are among the themes of Paradise Valley Board Member Kerry Baker’s students’ first policy agenda.  A member of the board since 2023, Ms. Baker, an educator, and Paradise School District parent is running for reelection to ensure that all learners are supported and educational progress continues to move into the Twenty-First Century.  Ms. Baker … Read more

As a Member of the Tempe Union High School Governing Board, Nicole Gutierrez Miller Wants to Make Sure All Students Have the Same Opportunity for Success.

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Nicole Gutierrez Miller is a testament to how hard work, persistence, and endurance pays off with dedication and a drive to succeed.  The first college graduate in her family and working mother of two, Ms. Gutierrez Miller has long supported her children’s public education, seeing it as a gateway to a better future for them … Read more

The Arizona Republic’s disingenuous endorsement in the State Treasurer race

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The Arizona Republic fka The Arizona Republican never fails to disappoint with its endorsements for Republican candidates and the occasional Democratic candidate who is acceptable to the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The Republic is so predictable I can project their endorsements even before the candidates have emerged from the party primaries.

The Republic’s endorsement of Kimberly Yee for State Treasurer is disingenuous because the editors suggest that this “rising star” in the Republican Party “would bring a more measured approach and steady hand to the serious business of managing the state’s money.”

Yee  has no interest in being State Treasurer.

Kimberly Yee is only running for State Treasurer to serve  as a launching pad for her run for governor in 2022, just as Doug Ducey ran for State Treasurer to serve as a launching pad for his run for governor in 2014. Yee will spend the next four years building her campaign for governor in 2022, not managing the state’s money. You know it, I know it, Yee knows it, and so do the editors of The Republic. But they will not say this. I just did.

Arizona needs a State Treasurer who is committed to doing the job to which he is elected and paid by the taxpayers of this state. That is Democratic candidate Mark Manoil.

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