The Children’s Action Alliance Rates Arizona Legislators

The Children’s Action Alliance (CAA) released its ratings of Arizona state legislators on how they voted for bills that would have assisted residing Grand Canyon State Children.

The pro child measures included bills that:

• Increased postpartum care for new mothers through AHCCCS.
• Increasing kinship care for foster children/families to $300 a month.
• Allowing foster youth to stay on Medicaid until age 26.

One would think that all of Arizona’s legislators would support one hundred percent of the bills that would help children.

If the legislator was Democrat, that would be true. All the Democratic legislators scored a hundred percent or a little higher if they sponsored CAA endorsed legislation.

Unfortunately, several Republicans scored poorly when it came to helping the most vulnerable among the people.

To be fair, most of the  Republicans like Karen Fann and Paul Boyer scored highly including many at or over 100.

Even people like Kelly Townsend and John Kavanagh scored in the 90’s and 80’s.

However, there were two members of the former party of Lincoln, Jacqueline Parker and Jake Hoffman, that scored zero. John Filmore was at 17 percent. Several including Secretary of State Candidate Michelle Ugenti-Rita scored 50 percent or less.

That means in most of these “public servants” world view, mothers needing postpartum care and foster children needing more to make ends meet could just fend for themselves.

How Christian is that?

When voters decide who to support at the ballot box on November 8, 2022, they should take into account which candidates did the most for Arizona’s most needy: the state’s children.