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October 2021
Adrian Fontes, the first Latino countywide elected official in Maricopa County, has worked tirelessly against voter suppression by making voting more accessible, transparent, and secure for all voters. He was the Maricopa County Recorder from 2017 to 2021. Even amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the violent insurrections at both the Maricopa Recorder’s office and at our Nation’s Capital, Adrian’s administration set up an elections infrastructure that led to record voter turnout in 2020. Adrian and his team improved a mail-in voting system, implemented a text message ballot tracking system for voters, installed 24/7 internet cameras in the ballot tabulation center, [...]
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Join us for the camaraderie with Democrats of Greater Tucson. It’s a wonderful opportunity to talk with and enjoy the company of fellow Democrats. Brother John's Beer, Bourbon & BBQ, 1801 N Stone Ave, Tucson 85705 is a great place to gather. Their Social Hour menu includes drinks and food specials. You can view the menu at their website www.brotherjohnsbbq.com It's free. Register here COVID-19 precautions: We request that all attendees be vaccinated. Thank you. See who came to our last happy hour: DGT Secretary Christina Early trades notes with a table full of Dems. Left to right: [...]
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Kris Mayes is a former Arizona Corporation Commissioner who is running for Arizona Attorney General in 2022. During her time as an Arizona Corporation Commissioner, Kris worked to preserve Arizona’s increasingly threatened water resources by overseeing one of the largest expansions of utility water conservation programs in state history. She also worked as Janet Napolitano's press secretary on her 2002 campaign. She is running for Attorney General to address climate change and protect voting rights and reproductive rights, and elder abuse. Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsc-yrqDojGNeoDR605btGmjZKFnPqaN-D Kris Mayes, an attorney and professor who served for seven years on the Arizona Corporation [...]
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Kathy Hoffman is Arizona's Superintendent of Public Instruction and is currently running for re-election. Superintendent Hoffman has spent her entire career working in public education, first as a preschool teacher and then as a speech-language pathologist. She began her career in the Vail School District in Southern Arizona before joining the Peoria School District. Her experience as both an educator and advocate for students with disabilities informs her vision for public education. Throughout her career, she has fought tirelessly for equal access to high-quality public education regardless of a student’s race, gender, or zip code. The last year has been [...]
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Chris Mathis is running to fill the shoes of state Representative Randy Friese (D-LD9), who has said he will step down from the office. Christopher H. Mathis, J.D., M.P.A., M.P.H., is a lawyer focusing on elder law, estate planning, and health care law. He formerly served as director of policy and communications for the Healthcare Markets and Regulation Lab in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and as a health care and aging legislative assistant in the United States Senate. Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIud-igqjwrH9I15nBBdlOfOUlY7qTGb-ET Chris is a Professor of Practice at the James [...]
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Sandra Kennedy was first elected to the Arizona Corporation Commission in 2008 on a platform promoting solar energy in Arizona and as a fierce consumer advocate. In her first term at the Corporation Commission, she worked with the Republican majority led by Kris Mayes to advance Solar Energy and Energy Efficiency. She is the first and only African American in Arizona to hold statewide office and the first statewide elected official, west of the Mississippi. Sandra was re-elected to the Corporation Commission in 2018 on a platform of restoring integrity and transparency to the Commission, lowering unjustified utility rate increases, [...]
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Lifelong Democrat Bob McWhirter — an Arizona attorney with more than 30 years of experience, a nationally recognized Constitutional scholar, and an expert on immigration law and the Bill of Rights — is running for Attorney General of Arizona. McWhirter has dedicated his life to strengthening democracy and ensuring the law is applied fairly, regardless of someone’s politics or zip code. He has long worked with community organizations from the Arizona NAACP to the ACLU, serving as a public defender in Maricopa County, and as pro-bono counsel at the Federal District Veterans Court. In his 30+ years as a lawyer, [...]
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