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Ask any national Republican who their best candidate is to beat freshman Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly (D) in 2022 and the name that you'll likely hear the most is Doug Ducey. Which makes sense! Ducey is the governor of the state -- elected in 2014 and reelected easily in 2018. He's term-limited out of office in 2022 and quite clearly has future political ambitions. hile Ducey has repeatedly denied interest in running against Kelly including as recently as earlier this week -- the word is that he has higher aims, like a presidential run or a VP role -- some...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday that he has authorized sending police to the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona and Texas after the two respective states requested it. DeSantis, a Republican, said Florida is the first state to answer a letter from Govs. Greg Abbott and Doug Ducey, both also Republicans, that asked all other states for help in policing the border. "We're here today because we have problems in Florida that are not organic to Florida that we've been forced to deal (with) over many years, but particularly over the last six months, because of the failure of the Biden...

Source: Provided by Ed AshurstArizona used to have some of the best livestock laws in the nation. Now, the cattle ranching industry is being torn apart due to a dismantling of the successful laws and regulations that used to prevent cattle theft. Close to 3,000 head of cattle have been stolen from at least 32 people in the last few years. Thieves brazenly stole over 100 cows with calves from well-known attorney and judge Tom Kelly in Yavapai County. Cowboys who once made a good living raising and selling cattle are finding substantial portions of their herds decimated, and when...

PHOENIX - Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2022 while denouncing the Republican-controlled state Senate’s ongoing audit of the 2020 presidential election. Hobbs said in a statement she was running for governor "to deliver transparency, accountability, and results for Arizonans" and would work as governor to "put aside our differences and work to solve the serious problems facing Arizona." The Arizona Senate’s audit of election results in Maricopa County was launched as supporters of former President Donald Trump suggested without evidence that the election was stolen, giving President Joe Biden...

Arizona Republican (in name only) Governor Doug Ducey has vetoed multiple bills including those banning critical race theory and mass vote by mail.Ducey vetoed 22 bills in total, claiming the people of Arizona “deserve” to have the $12.8 billion proposed budget plan pass, citing tax cuts and new spending on roads contained in the plan.One of the bills vetoed by Ducey was a bill seeking to ban critical race theory “training for government workers.” Another bill sought to end the sending of “mass mailing voting ballots to voters who don’t request one.” Yet another bill states the attorney general of...

There’s a particular trend pattern to identify DeceptiCons in the Republican party. The Arizona Governor, Doug Ducey, is one easily identifiable member of that club.The DeceptiCons support leftist goals and objectives; they are paid handsomely for their duplicity to support them; but they hide their support through parliamentarian tricks (cloture votes) and obtuse justification. Cue the demonstration:The Arizona GOP (party process) is almost as politically corrupt as the Virginia GOP. However, the difference is the current legislative branch is still representing the majority of Arizona voters…. (whereas the Virginia GOP has been consumed by corruption and now pass club rules...

An Arizona state bill that would have required absentee ballots list more personal information failed in the Republican-controlled state House on Wednesday. Arizona state Senate Bill 1713 would have required absentee ballots to list a voter’s birthday, plus either the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, a state-issued identification number or a voter registration number, failed in the GOP-controlled Arizona House Wednesday night. Voters would have had to fill out an affidavit that all the information they put down on their ballot is correct. The bill failed on a 29-31 vote, with two Republicans joining the entire Democratic...

If Gov. Doug Ducey believed shooting down 22 legislative bills would shame the 47 Republicans in the Arizona Legislature into passing his budget bills, the reaction of some lawmakers suggests there is now even less support after his vetoes were announced Friday. “The decision to employ strong arm tactics by vetoing over 20 Republican bills, presumably driven by some of his staff and advisors, reflects a fundamental miscalculation regarding the status and progress of the budget negotiations,” Rep. Jake Hoffman (R-LD12). “It is deeply concerning that they did not foresee how detrimental indiscriminately vetoing nearly two dozen bills would be...

The Arizona Senate may sign a deal for another 2020 election review in Maricopa County following reports that some overseers of the audit are dissatisfied with the process. The present audit, which includes a review of 2.1 million ballots cast in the state's November election in the county, has been underway since April 23 at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, led by the hired firm Cyber Ninjas. Audit liaison, former Secretary of State Ken Bennett, told a reporter with CBS5 News on Thursday that hand counters had gone through more than 800,000 ballots so far. Organizers have said they...

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey vetoed 22 bills on Friday, including pro-election integrity legislation and a bill that would restrict critical race theory in the state. In a letter to Arizona legislative leaders, Ducey announced that he had vetoed 22 pieces of legislation, claiming that the “priority” for the state needs to be on “passing a budget for Arizonans.” With one month left in the fiscal year, the legislature still has yet to pass the budget. Ducey argued that even though some of the bills he vetoed were “good policy,” they “can wait.” Until the budget passes, he will not be...

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - Does Arizona have a border crisis? Gov. Doug Ducey and some border sheriffs say yes, but other border sheriffs say no. Some have even said "no thanks" to Gov. Ducey deploying the National Guard to the border. There's a divide right down the middle of Arizona's four border counties. Two of them are welcoming the National Guard assistance, and two of them are refusing any help.

Democrats have a way of revealing themselves and their agenda, any time one of their truisms are just a tiny bit challenged.So no surprise, they opposed a hand-recount of the 2020 voting ballots in Maricopa County, Arizona, which includes large or at least well known cities such as Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe, Chandler, and Mesa. The vote went to Joe Biden.Somehow, they didn't want them recounted.According to the Washington Post:Senate leaders have said the process is intended only to explore ways to improve the state’s elections, rather than to cast doubt on Biden's 10,457-vote victory in Arizona over Donald Trump.But the...

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -- Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs is asking Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich to investigate potential violations of Arizona law over the Senate's audit of ballots cast in Maricopa County in November 2020. Her letter was shared on Twitter Friday. Hobbs response is following an investigation from Arizona's Family on Thursday regarding security issues at Arizona Senate's election audit at the State Fairgrounds. Secretary of State Katie Hobbs "Local reporting yesterday made it clear that Karen Fann and her Cyber Ninjas have not implemented sufficient security to protect the integrity of election equipment and ballots," Hobbs...

The Republican-controlled Arizona State Senate failed to pass an election integrity bill that tightens the rules for maintaining lists of voters who automatically are mailed absentee ballots Thursday when State Sen. Kelly Townsend (R-16) surprised her colleagues by joining with all 14 Democrats who voted no when the bill came to the floor. The bill’s sponsor, Republican state Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, said on the floor it was “disappointing to be on the receiving end of someone’s temper tantrum.” Townsend said she wouldn’t vote on any of the other proposed election changes until after the audit was completed, and complained that...

Donald Trump is blasting the Democrats’ desperate last-ditch effort to halt the Arizona election audit. On Friday afternoon, he delivered an official statement through Save America Pac. Donald Trump is blasting the Democrats’ desperate last-ditch effort to halt the Arizona election audit. On Friday afternoon, he delivered an official statement through Save America Pac. Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America. So many people would like to thank the brave and patriotic Republican State Senators from Arizona for the incredible job they are doing in exposing the large scale Voter Fraud which took place...

Nine cameras for your viewing pleasure. This live stream has been up for several days and will continue until the audit is complete. You know the Rats will make more attempts to halt the audit. They failed today, but they will continue to obstruct. But once the audit begins, it will become increasing difficult to stop. Everything is open and transparent.The Maricopa County audit is completely above board. They have gone to extreme lengths to guarantee the integrity of the audit. Everything is being captured and streamed.Personally, I think this is the model for counting ballots on election night. Paper...

A major political dispute over the results of last year's presidential election in Maricopa County is developing, but, for now, the audit sponsored by the Arizona State Senate Republicans will continue. A Maricopa County judge ordered a pause after state Democrats filed a lawsuit to block the audit. The pause would have been from 5 p.m. Friday until noon Monday, but the Arizona Democratic Party will not post the $1 million bond as requested by the judge. In a statement, party officials said in part "the fact of the matter is that no one knows the actual cost of this...

BREAKING: AZ judge orders a temporary halt to the Arizona forensic election audit until Monday Arizona Democrats sued this morning to stop the audit, citing “security issues”

As Republican legislatures across the country try to push back on encroaching and questionable practices regarding children coming out of the LGBTQ activist community, they are finding themselves up against governors of their own party who seem determined choose other priorities above the will of the people. Noem in South Dakota, Hutchinson in Arkansas, and now Ducey in Arizona.The Arizona Republican-led legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill that would require an opt-in for parents before their students could participate in pro-LGBTQ oriented sex ed studies and HIV and AIDS education. It would also require the school to alert parents of instruction...

Pastors who bully parishioners over masks appear to have forgotten the soul-saving mission of the church, and are instead tyrannizing those they should serve.Despite Texas Gov. Greg Abbot’s repeal of the state mask mandate, a pregnant Catholic mother was kicked out of Mass in the Diocese of Dallas for failing to wear a mask.Father Milton Ryan, pastor of Holy Trinity Catholic Parish, is alleged to have called the police while the service was underway and have the young mother threatened with arrest for trespass. Deidre Hairston returned to her pew after receiving communion, with her one-year-old baby in her arms,...