PHOENIX, ARIOZNA – Today, the Freedom Club PAC announced General Election endorsements for statewide, county, municipal, and school board races.
Freedom Club PAC Chairman Scot Mussi stated, “It is a critical time in our country and in our state. Arizona’s status as a prosperous, safe, and affordable state is under threat by radical far-left politicians that want to turn our state into another California. It is incredibly important that Arizonans vote down ticket for candidates that will fight back against their high tax, high crime, big spending California agenda.”
Statewide
Corporation Comission
Rachel Walden
Lea Márquez Peterson
Rene Lopez
Maricopa County
Board of Supervisors
Mark Stewart – District 1
Kate Brophy McGee – District 3
Debbie Lesko – District 4
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Attorney
Rachel Mitchell
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Recorder
Justin Heap
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Sheriff
Jerry Sheridan
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Superintendent of Instruction
Shelli Boggs
Municipal
Scottsdale
Lisa Borowsky – Mayor
Adam Kwasman – Council
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Gilbert
Aaron Accurso – Council
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Fountain Hills
Gerry Friedel – Mayor
Matthew Corrigan – Council
Rick Watts – Council
School Board
Mesa Unified School District
Higley Unified School District
Ed Steele
Taylor Francis
Sharon Benson
Sara Jarman
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Scottsdale Unified School District
Paradise Valley School District
Gretchen Jacobs
Nichole Klootwyk
Jeanne Beasley
Eddy Jackson
Drew Hassler
Susan Winder
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Peoria Unified School District
Gilbert Public Schools
Jeff Tobey
Ann Stevens
Janelle Bowles
Dr. Blake Robison
Shana Murray
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Prescott Unified School District
Dysart Unified School District
Pamela Ray
Stephen Skvara
Linda Conn
Mary Jane Ziola
Denise Destiche
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Fountain Hills Unified School District
Roosevelt School District
Kim Ducksworth
Tatiana Peña
Christianne Ortega
Sandra Jerez
PAID FOR BY THE FREEDOM CLUB PAC, with 0% from out-of-state contributors. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.
PHOENIX, ARIZONA – Today, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that, even though a special master reviewing tens of thousands of duplicate signatures made a determination that 99% of the challenged submissions were duplicates, votes in the November General Election for Proposition 140 would be tabulated.
“We are disappointed in the ruling of the court on this matter,” said Scot Mussi, President of the Arizona Free Enterprise Club. “Our organization proved that the special interest groups attempting to hijack Arizona’s elections systems lacked the minimum number to qualify for the ballot to even be considered by voters in November. The special master in this case also ruled that 99% of the signatures in question should be disqualified. The committee behind the measure was aware of the duplicates, yet they obstructed and delayed the review of the duplicate signatures for over a month.”
After the special master’s determination last month (that 99% of the 38,000 signatures reviewed were, in fact, duplicates), Proposition 140 should have been thousands of submissions under the constitutionally required signature threshold to qualify for the ballot.
Proposition 140 is seeking to enact a California-style election scheme built around ranked choice voting and jungle primaries.
If passed by voters, The Make Elections (Un)Fair Act would do the following for future Arizona elections:
Allows one politician, the Arizona Secretary of State, to decide how many candidates qualify for the general election ballot for every single contest, including his or her own race.
Would result in some races where candidates from only one political party appear on the general election ballot.
Would force voters to navigate two completely different voting systems on the same ballot, with some races requiring voters to rank candidates and others that do not.
Will increase tabulation errors, create longer lines at the polls, and significantly delay election results.
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Every year, thousands of people flock to Arizona to enjoy the safe, affordable, and free way of life. Most of these transplants are escaping blue states such as Illinois and Washington, but most of all from California. In 2023 alone, 73,000 Californians moved to the Grand Canyon State as their own home state has become unbearably dangerous, costly, and oppressive.
But Arizona is now at a tipping point. Along with that influx of newcomers has come a morphing of political governance. In 2016, Republicans in the state legislature held majorities in the House with 36-24 members and 18-12 in the Senate. Those majorities have dwindled to a bare single seat majority of 31-29 and 16-14. With the Governor’s office changing hands in 2022 to Democratic control, the threat of a Democratic trifecta looms large, and is something Arizona hasn’t grappled with for over 60 years, a long-gone era when Democratic statesmen were rural blue dogs.
Today’s Arizona progressives are definitely not that. Cut from the same cloth as Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris, given all the levers of state government, Arizonans can expect the state to do a complete U-turn. Governor Katie Hobbs has publicly taken up the mantle, pledging millions of dollars (even from her dubious inauguration funds) and her out-of-state billionaire friends to flip Arizona blue and enjoy frictionless implementation of her most radical agenda.
That agenda has been hiding in plain sight for years, and it looks a lot like California.
The actual bills Arizona Democrats have proposed over the past few years, if allowed to become law, would make Arizona unrecognizable.
Just like in California, the Arizona Left wants open borders and endless taxpayer incentives for illegal aliens. They’ll invite California-level crime by slashing criminal sentences, legalizing squatting, eliminating bail, and fully decriminalizing theft – attracting sophisticated crime rings to our state that will collapse retailers.
Just like in California, Arizona Democrats, unchecked, would remake Arizona into one of the highest tax burden states in the country. That’s why every year they try to pass laws that increase the sales tax, double the income tax, and double the gas tax. They’ve opposed bills to eliminate and prohibit taxes on necessities like food, rent, and driving. And they have even tried to make every tax increase permanent by introducing a bill that would require super majorities at the legislature to ever reduce taxes. And if Arizonans are feeling the housing cost pinch, they can thank Katie Hobbs for unilaterally shutting down the building of single-family homes, which will soon be California single-family home prices.
And just like in California, Arizona Democrats want a woke oppressive culture that allows for state-sanctioned racial discrimination, gender mutilation surgeries for minors, the repeal of the Parent’s Bill of Rights, draconian penalties for “climate crimes,” and to reward their political allies with taxpayer dollars.
If the AZ Left gets what they want, they’ll import every bad idea that’s destroyed our neighbors to the west. And instead of tens of thousands flocking to Arizona, they’ll just be passing through on their way to Texas, South Carolina, or Florida. Arizonans don’t want California’s crime, costs, and chaos. We want to keep AZ free.
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PHOENIX, ARIZONA – Today, the Arizona Free Enterprise Club announced the start of a campaign to educate residents around the state about the dangers of California policies affecting future generations. The Club launched dontCAmyAZ.com with information Arizonans can glean about California’s growing shadow on their state.
“For years, we have warned about the oppressive, big-government policies of California being imported to our state,” said Aimee Yentes, Vice President of the Arizona Free Enterprise Club. “Yet, as more people escape the high crime and unaffordability of California and other blue states, Arizona’s safe, affordable, and free way of life is in jeopardy. The ‘Don’t CA my AZ’ campaign will educate residents all over the state about how they can help to keep AZ free.”
Currently, the Arizona Legislature has a narrow Republican majority in both the state House and Senate. The state’s governor is a Democrat and has pledged millions to flip the Arizona legislature and put us on a glide path to becoming another California. Should Democrats control both chambers of the state legislature, the Left would control the trifecta of power, which hasn’t occurred in Arizona for more than sixty years.
DontCAmyAZ.com highlights actual bills the Arizona Left has introduced in our state that have been the same policies that have destroyed the once great state of California. If given the ability to turn these bills into law, Arizona would see endless crime, high costs and taxes, and woke oppressive culture that now defines California.
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Arizona Free Enterprise Club President Scot Mussi released the following statement on today’s ruling by Judge Moskowitz regarding the Prop 140 Signature Challenge:
“From the moment he was unanimously rebuked by the AZ Supreme Court for blocking the removal of nearly 40,000 duplicate signatures, Judge Moskowitz has been trying to find a way to place Prop 140 on the ballot, irrespective of whether it had enough signatures to qualify. Today he issued a ruling manufacturing that outcome, deciding that the statutory method for determining the number of valid signatures for ballot initiatives is now unconstitutional. He made this radical determination despite the fact that the statute Moskowitz invalidated is nearly 30 years old and was reviewed and upheld against a constitutional challenge by the AZ Supreme Court in 2022 (Mussi v Hobbs).
The bottom line is that after the removal of the duplicate signatures, Prop 140 lacks the required number of valid signatures needed to qualify for the ballot. The committee behind the measure was aware of this fact, which is why they obstructed and delayed the review of the duplicate signatures for over a month.
We are confident that after a careful review of the facts, ruling, and trial court record, the AZ Supreme Court will again overturn this outrageous ruling by Judge Moskowitz and enjoin Prop 140 from being tabulated.”
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Only United States citizens should be voting in our elections. That shouldn’t be a controversial statement. But of course, it’s 2024, and the Left hasn’t instituted its open border policies under the Biden-Harris administration for nothing.
The fact is that U.S. citizens can’t go into France, Australia, or any other country throughout the world and vote in their elections. Why should citizens from other countries be allowed to vote in our elections?
While it’s certainly illegal for non-citizens to vote here, the law is only as good as the mechanism in place to make sure it’s followed. That’s why it is critical for the integrity of our nation’s elections that voters prove their citizenship prior to voting. And the SAVE Act is a much-needed remedy that would address this issue head on.
Sponsored by Rep. Chip Roy from Texas, who has certainly experienced firsthand the issues that arise from the current surge at the border, the SAVE Act would require individuals to provide documentary proof of citizenship (DPOC) in order to vote in federal elections. It’s a constitutional solution to keep non-citizens from voting.
But given Congress’s propensity for inaction, states should not wait around to see if our federal lawmakers will pass the SAVE Act or another reasonable solution. Arizona has been a leader on this issue for years and has already enacted a comprehensive solution that every state should follow.
In 2022, the Arizona Free Enterprise Club authored HB 2492, which was passed by the legislature and signed by then-Governor Doug Ducey. This comprehensive voter integrity law implements a suite of reforms that ensures that non-U.S. citizens are stopped from voting in Arizona elections.
First, HB2492 mandates that Arizona election officials shall reject any state voter registration form that does not include documented proof of citizenship. If an election official accepts one of these applications, he or she is guilty of a class 5 felony. Just last month, this provision was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court and allowed to go into effect.
Second, the law requires that election officials check a multitude of databases to determine the citizenship status of an applicant that registers with a federal registration form and doesn’t provide proof of citizenship.Based on those database checks, if the election official finds the applicant in a database and confirms that the applicant is a U.S. citizen, the applicant would be properly registered to vote. However, if the election official finds that the applicant is not a U.S. citizen, the application would need to be rejected. The election official would then be required to inform the Attorney General and county attorney because the applicant lied on a voter registration form, which is a crime. Lastly, if election officials cannot find the applicant in any database, they are required to send a notice to the applicant requesting DPOC within 30 days.
Third, HB 2492 prohibits any person that fails to provide proof of citizenship from voting for president in the General Election. Arizona, like every other state, has the plenary power over the conduct of Presidential Elections. And this includes preventing anyone that is not a verified U.S. Citizen from voting for president.
And finally, only individuals that provide proof of citizenship when registering are eligible to vote by mail. There is no state or federal right to vote by mail and as recognized by Justice Alito in Brnovich v. DNC, “Arizona law generally makes it easy to vote.” And when the “totality of circumstances” is considered, HB2492 would not place a significant burden on voters by requiring DPOC to vote early by mail.
Stopping illegals from voting in our elections requires action at every level of government. We need Congress to pass the SAVE Act, and we need every state to take proactive measures to ensure only U.S. Citizens are voting in elections. For two decades, Arizona worked on this issue. Now HB 2492 serves as the roadmap for every state to protect their voter rolls and stop non-U.S. citizens from voting in our elections. Until the SAVE Act is passed, every state in the country should follow our lead with their own version now.
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