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Arizonans have already made it very clear we don’t want tax dollars paying billionaire team
owner’s bills instead of funding our own schools, roads, public safety & services
This is my shocked face😐Extremists are hoping to trick AZ voters into voting against our best interests AND against what we just overwhelmingly voted for, to boot. It won’t work. #Abortionishealthcare #AZforaccess
A friend’s students asked me to speak to their Linguistics Club today and between the fact that there’s a linguistics club at a high school 🤩⁉️ and the students being so curious, bright & passionate, it was the best thing I’ve done in months. Can we hurry up & hand the keys over to the kids please?
Is this greatness?
Big ideas, popular values, common sense …now we see what the #AZLeg does - and more likely doesn’t do - to serve the people they represent - 30 -
And a final circle back to public education! Says it’s the core of the Arizona Promise & calls for regulation of the egregious & fraud-ridden ESA program that is bankrupting the state, scamming taxpayers & sucking funds from every other priority we have 🤯
Water. Dams, water rights, federal drinking water regulations, Colorado River, cites her Water Policy Council & groundwater efforts like designating Willcox an AMA when the Leg majority failed to act - and says she will do it again 😎
“Freedom”…this one went in the maternal healthcare & family planning direction. “I stood with the overwhelming majority of AZ to end our abortion ban” & reporting laws must be next + contraceptive & fertility access, calls them “mandates”
Paid family leave & raises for state first responders & public safety.
“Safe communities” is what we call border security now, and Hobbs says stopping drug traffic is a priority of hers this session esp. fentanyl thru stronger support of border personnel
And then of course: supporting public education! Says we need to act on Prop. 123 & the spending limit.
On the small business side, Hobbs calls for expansion of microgrants & other entrepreneurial supports
Investing in trades & apprenticeship programs in fields like semi conductor, construction & tech industries - areas of growth AZ already leads in, adding 250K jobs just during her tenure
Lower the cost of childcare thru her Working Families Childcare Act to lower costs by 2/3
Fixes for veteran homelessness within the next decade
Gov Hobbs calls for extending the low income tax credit for housing & ending unmitigated scourge of short term rentals overpowering resident interests & communities
Recapping her bio as native AZan, social worker, Uber driver and - I’ll add this one - longtime & undefeated elected servant of the people of Arizona
I’m here at the House of Representatives for Opening Day of the 57th #AZLeg and the Governor’s State of the State. Up first, affordability & access to “the Arizona promise”
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Just wrapped the last class of Fall 2024! 🥳 Someone asked me recently how long I’ve been a professor, which prompted me to actually figure it out: 15.5 years! It feels like forever & the blink of an eye all at once
Oh wow, well it feels like this one is building quickly so I feel optimistic we finally have a viable alternative. Great to see you here!
Great point, I’m doing the same
It’s officially official! Thank you Gov. Hobbs for spotlighting the Arizonans who made Prop. 139, the Constitutional right to abortion care, possible! There are thousands more who quote couldn’t fit in the rotunda, but every single one of you are part of this historic win 💜
This was a super informative segment, and by super informative I mean deeply terrifying
Good coffee, bad advice
I haven’t heard a 2026 challenger speculation yet that I’m excited about or even intrigued by, just the usual egos
Yikes
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