I live in AZ and she is going to have to come up with more than "deep state bad" to get my vote. Anyone could say that. I could come up with tough talk all day long but it doesn't mean I'd be a good governor. If calling out the villains == quality candidates, the country could just recruit posters from GAW.
Also, I did not mean to reply to you. I actually meant to reply to the person you were replying to u/inquimous. And it wasn’t meant as sarcastic or facetious, but I was honestly curious and went to look and see what I could find!
Just call me a bit jaded after all the times I've seen a "fresh new face" come along saying "throw the rascals out" and every time the fresh prince or princess of hot air gets an instant following of people ready to elect them to any office for a few words. And if it is a woman who is at all presentable there are pathetically hopeful men ready to defend them too.
I get it. I honestly don’t trust any one anymore. It’s pretty obvious they have based the political crowd actors on the different subsets of personalities, just as they have always done.
I think it is extremely wrong for the government, businesses, and schools to mandate this vaccine.
If the vaccine weren’t available and available to everyone, this would be different. But anyone concerned can protect themselves.
Anyone can go out and get the shot today.
They can get it free.
They can get it all over town in every community in the state. You can get it at a drive-up site, grocery store, pharmacies, and medical facilities.
Access to the vaccine is universal in this country.
And people have a responsibility to protect themselves — they DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT to impose their choices on others.
I am completely against any mandate — especially one that costs someone an opportunity to further their education or earn a living.
And while I don’t have the authority at this time to stop this — as your Governor, I will absolutely seek to ban vaccine mandates across the board.
I encourage everyone concerned about this medical totalitarianism to contact Governor Ducey’s office IMMEDIATELY — and tell him to put an executive order right away protecting the medical privacy of all Arizonans in every field.
We must also urge him to lift the state of emergency in Arizona. As long as that is in effect, we are at risk of losing our rights, both medical rights and fundamental liberties.
My policy as Governor would be to educate the people of Arizona on any public health risks and then allow them to make the best choices to protect themselves, their families, and their businesses.
Don't California our Arizona
I want to see Arizona remain a great symbol of the American West. We don't want to be some homogenized, unrecognizable state, a second California. California is the "Progressive Dream" realized in full after decades of one-Party Democrat control. And what does that dream look like? It's a deliberate, unmoving traffic jam next to a homeless encampment where people are using the sidewalk as a toilet and shooting up in front of a cop who isn't allowed to do anything about it.
The list of progressive policies that have failed is comprehensive. They've used "Vision Zero" to deliberately tie traffic in knots in an attempt to make driving so inconvenient people are forced onto buses. They've used "Justice Reform" to turn criminals loose on the population to commit crime without consequence. Their version of "Housing Equity" has made it so costly and impossible to build new housing that they've created an artificial housing crisis and tens of thousands of newly homeless people. The list goes on. Their homelessness policies are a complete failure and actively enable long-term street homelessness, vagrancy, and drug use. Their taxes, regulations, and wasteful spending are driving businesses away at a record pace and preventing new ones from getting off the ground. People are fleeing in droves.
We can't allow liberal policies to California our Arizona – if we do there will be nowhere left to run.
Election Integrity
In 2016, over 60% of Democrats believed the election was stolen. In 2020, over 60% of Republicans believe the election was stolen. We cannot continue to have disputed elections and expect this country to survive. Ensuring election integrity in the future is incredibly simple if we simply have the political will to do it.
First, require voter ID on all ballots. One person, one vote. There is nothing fairer than that, and – despite what the mainstream media says – voter ID requirements are overwhelmingly popular with every single Party and demographic. 75% of Americans support requiring voter ID, as do 69% of Black Americans, and 82% of other minorities. 60% of Democrats, 77% of Independents, and 89% of Republicans support voter ID. The only people who don't want to see voter ID implemented are progressive activists and the media.
Second, take all equipment that uses software out of the counting process. As we have seen in recent weeks with the pipeline hack, and the meat-plant hack: if it has software, it can be hacked. Elections are simply too important to take that risk. Using analog optical scanners will be more personnel and time-consuming than using computers – so we pay for the personnel and resources we need.
Third, elections should be followed with regular, highly accurate audits of the results to ensure transparency and bolster public trust.
Pro-Life
I am pro-life. Always have been and always will be.
Secure the Border - Finish the Wall
As Governor, I will direct the Arizona National Guard to deploy along the border and assist Border Patrol for as long as it takes to get control of this disaster. Additionally, while our Department of Public Safety doesn't have a direct role in immigration enforcement, they are a frontline resource in combatting sex and human trafficking and drug smuggling. I will expand and redeploy elite elements of DPS to our border to coordinate a massive increase in our efforts to stop these evils.
As Americans, we welcome all legal immigrants into our country, but what we have now is a security and humanitarian crisis. International criminal cartels are fully in control of Northern Mexico and have turned the flood of people wanting to get into the United States into just another lucrative revenue source to be exploited – they are raping, ransoming, and extorting some of the most vulnerable people in the world, and they won't stop until we stop them.
That's why I am committed to finishing the wall. I will not let this suffering continue.
Teaching for Success
Arizona students need a great education, they deserve a great education. I will stop the "woke" curriculum overtaking our schools, and ensure our kids are given the tools they need to grow and be successful in every phase of life.
No child should ever be taught that their skin color, or where they come from, is what defines them. That is racism, pure and simple, no matter what anyone wants to call it. It needs to stop. This craziness is teaching kids to be suspicious of, even fear, their classmates. It's teaching them to judge every single aspect of life through a racial lens. And it's destroying their self-confidence. It must stop. It will stop.
We have to get back to teaching American history, not anti-American history. That doesn't mean ignoring our flaws, but it does mean standing up to the revisionist attacks on the past progressives are using to promote their ideology.
Instead, kids need real, quality education that starts with the basics and ensures students have a complete grasp of them, before moving on the learning they need to succeed in a high-tech, fast paced world. Schools, and students, must be held to the highest standard, and the excuses for not doing so need to stop, also.
As Governor, I will ensure that our schools have the resources and support they need to give our kids their very best chance at a lifetime of success. I will ensure that parents have every available option to give their kids the best education possible – great public schools, great charter schools, great technical schools, and real support for homeschool parents.
We're going to fund students not systems, and replace woke curriculum with education that gives our kids the real-world tools they need to achieve their dreams.
Second Amendment
Shall. Not. Be. Infringed.
Protecting Local Business, Not Box Stores
When the pandemic hit, states across the country – including Arizona - put the hammer down on small businesses; forcing their closure, limiting their occupancy, and requiring costly modifications to their operations. At the same time, they bent over backwards to accommodate the needs of many big box stores and online retailers. The damage those policies did will be felt for decades.
I care far more about the local retired couple who poured their life savings into a restaurant and then had government take it away from them than I do the shareholders of Walmart or Amazon. I will never allow our state to do anything like this, ever again.
No shutdowns, no restrictions, no favorites.
In a public health crisis, or any crisis, it is the responsibility of the government to give our citizens the very best, most accurate information possible, and allow them to make their own informed decisions. I trust you, the people of Arizona, to do what's best for you, your family, and your neighbors over bureaucrats who are mostly interested in protecting their careers.
Religious Freedom
As Americans, we have the freedom to worship where, when, and how we choose. I will work with our legislature to pass a law preventing any government interference of this fundamental liberty under any circumstances. No governor, no Mayor, no board will have the right to shut down religious observances or worship. Ever.
This awful, insidious "defund the police" movement needs to be stopped in its tracks. There is a direct correlation between this movement and the explosion of violent crime happening across the country. The leaders of this effort have proven time and again they don't care about poor people, or people of color – if they did they wouldn't ignore and excuse the horrific gang violence spreading through our cities that disproportionately damages poor and minority communities. It is not compassionate or just to leave good people at the mercy of criminals.
I won't give an inch to people who want to tear down law enforcement for their own benefit. Not only will I ensure that State Shared Revenues are withheld from any city, town, or county that defunds their police department, I will push to include significant grants to local governments in our annual budget for the recruitment, training, and retention of great police officers.
We need great cops, and we need them to have all the tools and training they need to perform their jobs safely and compassionately. Instead of defunding police, I will fully fund police.
Arizona's next governor must #BackTheBlue. They put their lives on the line for us, making sure they know how much we honor and respect that commitment is the least we can do.
Preserving Rural Communities
Arizona's rural and farming and ranching communities are being ignored by politicians who know they can get all the money and votes they need in Maricopa County. I will not do that. Rural and farming communities remain the backbone, and one of the great economic engines, of our state. I am planning a listening tour of rural Arizona communities. I will listen. I will learn. And I will lead the way on getting those communities and their people what they need to succeed going forward.
Water
Water is perhaps the single most critical issue facing Arizona today. Too many people now rely on a single watershed that is unable to support them, and our population is continuing to grow. Ranchers and farmers are already suffering from the effects - seeing significant cuts in their water allocations from the Colorado River and watching their groundwater dry up.
The next Governor of Arizona must be a leader on this issue, not only for Arizona, but for the future of the entire Southwest and Northern Mexico. We must seek and immediately implement both long and short-term solutions to address a rapidly growing crisis that threatens the future viability of our agricultural heritage, our manufacturing growth, and our population alike.
After meeting with experts across Arizona on this issue, I am committed to being the Governor who addresses Arizona's future water needs by stepping up to lead a national and regional effort to ensure Arizona and the entire Southwest have all the water we need to continue to grow into the future.
Short term, that means increasing our storage capacity on the Salt & Verde River system by improving and expanding our dams and reservoirs, capturing storm runoffs, lining and covering our canals, and properly managing the forests and wildlife areas surrounding these critical
Thanks for that info. By stated policy, it sounds like she'd be a good governor for Arizona. Arizona citizens will just have to hold her to her word like they should hold all politicians to their word.
I live in AZ and she is going to have to come up with more than "deep state bad" to get my vote. Anyone could say that. I could come up with tough talk all day long but it doesn't mean I'd be a good governor. If calling out the villains == quality candidates, the country could just recruit posters from GAW.
Well, what else is she saying? She must have a list of positions somewhere. I guess you could always just keep the people we all have now.
Also, I did not mean to reply to you. I actually meant to reply to the person you were replying to u/inquimous. And it wasn’t meant as sarcastic or facetious, but I was honestly curious and went to look and see what I could find!
Just call me a bit jaded after all the times I've seen a "fresh new face" come along saying "throw the rascals out" and every time the fresh prince or princess of hot air gets an instant following of people ready to elect them to any office for a few words. And if it is a woman who is at all presentable there are pathetically hopeful men ready to defend them too.
I get it. I honestly don’t trust any one anymore. It’s pretty obvious they have based the political crowd actors on the different subsets of personalities, just as they have always done.
And they are evolving, just as we are.
So I don’t trust them a bit.
The whole system has to be cleared out!
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I think it is extremely wrong for the government, businesses, and schools to mandate this vaccine.
If the vaccine weren’t available and available to everyone, this would be different. But anyone concerned can protect themselves.
Anyone can go out and get the shot today.
They can get it free.
They can get it all over town in every community in the state. You can get it at a drive-up site, grocery store, pharmacies, and medical facilities.
Access to the vaccine is universal in this country.
And people have a responsibility to protect themselves — they DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT to impose their choices on others.
I am completely against any mandate — especially one that costs someone an opportunity to further their education or earn a living.
And while I don’t have the authority at this time to stop this — as your Governor, I will absolutely seek to ban vaccine mandates across the board.
I encourage everyone concerned about this medical totalitarianism to contact Governor Ducey’s office IMMEDIATELY — and tell him to put an executive order right away protecting the medical privacy of all Arizonans in every field.
We must also urge him to lift the state of emergency in Arizona. As long as that is in effect, we are at risk of losing our rights, both medical rights and fundamental liberties.
My policy as Governor would be to educate the people of Arizona on any public health risks and then allow them to make the best choices to protect themselves, their families, and their businesses.
I want to see Arizona remain a great symbol of the American West. We don't want to be some homogenized, unrecognizable state, a second California. California is the "Progressive Dream" realized in full after decades of one-Party Democrat control. And what does that dream look like? It's a deliberate, unmoving traffic jam next to a homeless encampment where people are using the sidewalk as a toilet and shooting up in front of a cop who isn't allowed to do anything about it.
The list of progressive policies that have failed is comprehensive. They've used "Vision Zero" to deliberately tie traffic in knots in an attempt to make driving so inconvenient people are forced onto buses. They've used "Justice Reform" to turn criminals loose on the population to commit crime without consequence. Their version of "Housing Equity" has made it so costly and impossible to build new housing that they've created an artificial housing crisis and tens of thousands of newly homeless people. The list goes on. Their homelessness policies are a complete failure and actively enable long-term street homelessness, vagrancy, and drug use. Their taxes, regulations, and wasteful spending are driving businesses away at a record pace and preventing new ones from getting off the ground. People are fleeing in droves.
We can't allow liberal policies to California our Arizona – if we do there will be nowhere left to run.
In 2016, over 60% of Democrats believed the election was stolen. In 2020, over 60% of Republicans believe the election was stolen. We cannot continue to have disputed elections and expect this country to survive. Ensuring election integrity in the future is incredibly simple if we simply have the political will to do it.
First, require voter ID on all ballots. One person, one vote. There is nothing fairer than that, and – despite what the mainstream media says – voter ID requirements are overwhelmingly popular with every single Party and demographic. 75% of Americans support requiring voter ID, as do 69% of Black Americans, and 82% of other minorities. 60% of Democrats, 77% of Independents, and 89% of Republicans support voter ID. The only people who don't want to see voter ID implemented are progressive activists and the media.
Second, take all equipment that uses software out of the counting process. As we have seen in recent weeks with the pipeline hack, and the meat-plant hack: if it has software, it can be hacked. Elections are simply too important to take that risk. Using analog optical scanners will be more personnel and time-consuming than using computers – so we pay for the personnel and resources we need.
Third, elections should be followed with regular, highly accurate audits of the results to ensure transparency and bolster public trust.
I am pro-life. Always have been and always will be.
As Governor, I will direct the Arizona National Guard to deploy along the border and assist Border Patrol for as long as it takes to get control of this disaster. Additionally, while our Department of Public Safety doesn't have a direct role in immigration enforcement, they are a frontline resource in combatting sex and human trafficking and drug smuggling. I will expand and redeploy elite elements of DPS to our border to coordinate a massive increase in our efforts to stop these evils.
As Americans, we welcome all legal immigrants into our country, but what we have now is a security and humanitarian crisis. International criminal cartels are fully in control of Northern Mexico and have turned the flood of people wanting to get into the United States into just another lucrative revenue source to be exploited – they are raping, ransoming, and extorting some of the most vulnerable people in the world, and they won't stop until we stop them.
That's why I am committed to finishing the wall. I will not let this suffering continue.
Arizona students need a great education, they deserve a great education. I will stop the "woke" curriculum overtaking our schools, and ensure our kids are given the tools they need to grow and be successful in every phase of life.
No child should ever be taught that their skin color, or where they come from, is what defines them. That is racism, pure and simple, no matter what anyone wants to call it. It needs to stop. This craziness is teaching kids to be suspicious of, even fear, their classmates. It's teaching them to judge every single aspect of life through a racial lens. And it's destroying their self-confidence. It must stop. It will stop.
We have to get back to teaching American history, not anti-American history. That doesn't mean ignoring our flaws, but it does mean standing up to the revisionist attacks on the past progressives are using to promote their ideology.
Instead, kids need real, quality education that starts with the basics and ensures students have a complete grasp of them, before moving on the learning they need to succeed in a high-tech, fast paced world. Schools, and students, must be held to the highest standard, and the excuses for not doing so need to stop, also.
As Governor, I will ensure that our schools have the resources and support they need to give our kids their very best chance at a lifetime of success. I will ensure that parents have every available option to give their kids the best education possible – great public schools, great charter schools, great technical schools, and real support for homeschool parents.
We're going to fund students not systems, and replace woke curriculum with education that gives our kids the real-world tools they need to achieve their dreams.
Shall. Not. Be. Infringed.
When the pandemic hit, states across the country – including Arizona - put the hammer down on small businesses; forcing their closure, limiting their occupancy, and requiring costly modifications to their operations. At the same time, they bent over backwards to accommodate the needs of many big box stores and online retailers. The damage those policies did will be felt for decades.
I care far more about the local retired couple who poured their life savings into a restaurant and then had government take it away from them than I do the shareholders of Walmart or Amazon. I will never allow our state to do anything like this, ever again.
No shutdowns, no restrictions, no favorites.
In a public health crisis, or any crisis, it is the responsibility of the government to give our citizens the very best, most accurate information possible, and allow them to make their own informed decisions. I trust you, the people of Arizona, to do what's best for you, your family, and your neighbors over bureaucrats who are mostly interested in protecting their careers.
As Americans, we have the freedom to worship where, when, and how we choose. I will work with our legislature to pass a law preventing any government interference of this fundamental liberty under any circumstances. No governor, no Mayor, no board will have the right to shut down religious observances or worship. Ever.
(Edited to add 🥕)
This awful, insidious "defund the police" movement needs to be stopped in its tracks. There is a direct correlation between this movement and the explosion of violent crime happening across the country. The leaders of this effort have proven time and again they don't care about poor people, or people of color – if they did they wouldn't ignore and excuse the horrific gang violence spreading through our cities that disproportionately damages poor and minority communities. It is not compassionate or just to leave good people at the mercy of criminals.
I won't give an inch to people who want to tear down law enforcement for their own benefit. Not only will I ensure that State Shared Revenues are withheld from any city, town, or county that defunds their police department, I will push to include significant grants to local governments in our annual budget for the recruitment, training, and retention of great police officers.
We need great cops, and we need them to have all the tools and training they need to perform their jobs safely and compassionately. Instead of defunding police, I will fully fund police.
Arizona's next governor must #BackTheBlue. They put their lives on the line for us, making sure they know how much we honor and respect that commitment is the least we can do.
Arizona's rural and farming and ranching communities are being ignored by politicians who know they can get all the money and votes they need in Maricopa County. I will not do that. Rural and farming communities remain the backbone, and one of the great economic engines, of our state. I am planning a listening tour of rural Arizona communities. I will listen. I will learn. And I will lead the way on getting those communities and their people what they need to succeed going forward.
Water is perhaps the single most critical issue facing Arizona today. Too many people now rely on a single watershed that is unable to support them, and our population is continuing to grow. Ranchers and farmers are already suffering from the effects - seeing significant cuts in their water allocations from the Colorado River and watching their groundwater dry up.
The next Governor of Arizona must be a leader on this issue, not only for Arizona, but for the future of the entire Southwest and Northern Mexico. We must seek and immediately implement both long and short-term solutions to address a rapidly growing crisis that threatens the future viability of our agricultural heritage, our manufacturing growth, and our population alike.
After meeting with experts across Arizona on this issue, I am committed to being the Governor who addresses Arizona's future water needs by stepping up to lead a national and regional effort to ensure Arizona and the entire Southwest have all the water we need to continue to grow into the future.
Short term, that means increasing our storage capacity on the Salt & Verde River system by improving and expanding our dams and reservoirs, capturing storm runoffs, lining and covering our canals, and properly managing the forests and wildlife areas surrounding these critical
Thanks for that info. By stated policy, it sounds like she'd be a good governor for Arizona. Arizona citizens will just have to hold her to her word like they should hold all politicians to their word.