I guarantee you she stepped down for some medical procedure that would require her to be unconscious. In another day or two she'll be right back in office.
Unless she is coming back as a he I would expect a governor would issue a press release telling her state that she is undergoing a routine medical procedure and will return in a few days, but AZ law xxx requires her to relinquish power briefly. Otherwise a governor's absence will lead to widespread speculation.
You also don't get to skip levels on a succession chart for something as serious as appointing the acting chief executive of a state. That would put the entire state at risk from someone who is likely inexperienced.
Like it or not, this is extremely odd and deserves a real explanation.
Turns out it's not odd at all, just like I said. The only thing I got wrong was that she wasn't sick.
She was out of state for a meeting and then when her lieutenant governor also had to leave the statement for a different meeting that past control down to the secretary of the treasury temporarily. She's back now.
I guarantee you she stepped down for some medical procedure that would require her to be unconscious. In another day or two she'll be right back in office.
Unless she is coming back as a he I would expect a governor would issue a press release telling her state that she is undergoing a routine medical procedure and will return in a few days, but AZ law xxx requires her to relinquish power briefly. Otherwise a governor's absence will lead to widespread speculation.
You also don't get to skip levels on a succession chart for something as serious as appointing the acting chief executive of a state. That would put the entire state at risk from someone who is likely inexperienced.
Like it or not, this is extremely odd and deserves a real explanation.
Turns out it's not odd at all, just like I said. The only thing I got wrong was that she wasn't sick.
She was out of state for a meeting and then when her lieutenant governor also had to leave the statement for a different meeting that past control down to the secretary of the treasury temporarily. She's back now.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2023/09/28/fox-news-governor-katie-hobbs-disappeared-where-she-was/70996365007/
She did get a butch hair cut just before this, lol!