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Dem governor ripped as 'total disgrace' after vetoing bill limiting Chinese land ownership near military bases (Katie Hobbs, RAT-Arizona)
Fox News ^ | 6/03/25 | Alec Schemmel

Posted on 06/03/2025 5:28:03 PM PDT by Libloather

Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, who is up for reelection this year, garnered backlash Tuesday after vetoing a bill aimed at preventing China from buying up land next to strategic assets, such as military bases.

Arizona state Senate Majority Leader Janae Shamp said the "politically motivated veto" was "utterly insane," blaming Hobbs for being "an obstructionist against safeguarding our citizens from threats."

However, Hobbs said the bill, S.B. 1109, was "ineffective at counter-espionage" and did not "directly protect" American military assets in the state.

Chinese investment in land near military bases has become an increasing concern for national security hawks. Shamp, in her efforts to get the now-vetoed bill passed, cited recent Chinese attempts to lease buildings alongside Arizona's Luke Air Force Base, where the military trains fighter pilots.

"Governor Hobbs’s veto of SB 1109 hangs an 'Open for the CCP' sign on Arizona’s front door, allowing Communist China to buy up American land near critical assets like Luke Air Force Base, Palo Verde nuclear power plant, and Taiwan Semiconductor’s growing fabrication footprint," said Michael Lucci, the CEO and founder of State Armor Action, a conservative group with a mission to develop and enact state-level solutions to global security threats.

"Allowing Communist China to buy up land near our critical assets is a national security risk, plain and simple, and Governor Hobbs is substantively and completely wrong when she says that SB 1109 ‘is ineffective at counter-espionage and does not directly protect our military assets,’" Lucci added.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: alecschemmel; arizona; bases; ccp; chicomasset; china; espionage; followthemoney; foreign; katiehobbs; military; property; realty
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To: marktwain

Kindly sir:

It’s Ok in this forum to use the word “fraud” rather than euphemisms ;-)


21 posted on 06/03/2025 5:51:17 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: Libloather
Hobbs looks like she has Down's Syndrome. Seriously.

However she lacks all the positives of people with real Down's Syndrome.

22 posted on 06/03/2025 5:52:42 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: HandBasketHell; marktwain

Wrong year. 2022. Supposedly 50.32% to 49.65% over Lake. Trump was not on the ballot.


23 posted on 06/03/2025 5:55:01 PM PDT by Mr Rogers
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To: Libloather

This is what you get when RINOs cheat to install a Democrat rather than a MAGA Republican.


24 posted on 06/03/2025 5:59:01 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Libloather

“Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, who is up for reelection THIS year,”

No, she is up for re-election NEXT year.

Andy Biggs is running for the GOP. His main opponent in the primary will be the same McCainiac squish (Karrin Taylor Robson) who damaged Kari Lake 4 years ago in the race to take on Hobbs. Robson and her wealthy GOPe puppetmasters spent 22 MILLION in the Republican primary in 2022. Probably they spent some of that even after the primary, vindictively in order to help Hobbs and thwart Lake.

Ex-NFL kicker/broadcaster Jay Feely is running (as a Republican) to replace Biggs in the House, but he faces a tough primary.


25 posted on 06/03/2025 5:59:19 PM PDT by PermaRag (Facts, context, and more facts)
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To: Libloather

Over-Ride. But they won’t. This dance step was mapped out long ago for public theater.


26 posted on 06/03/2025 6:06:20 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Dogs are with us briefly. Politicians last on forever. Listen to your dog. )
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To: Libloather

Who is selling it to them?


27 posted on 06/03/2025 6:10:21 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: marktwain

Except she was elected in 2022.


28 posted on 06/03/2025 6:11:08 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert (✡️✝️🔯)
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To: Libloather

She probably gets a cut from Chinese arrivals’ sales of the digital telephoto cameras and Sony ENG camcorders with built-in ND (neutral density) filters and integrated zoom lenses.
Chinese like to do stargazing at night.


29 posted on 06/03/2025 6:13:32 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Libloather

Military base areas are Chinese favorites here but they own 277,336 acres of US land currently. Lots of places for doing harm.


30 posted on 06/03/2025 6:16:06 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

A lady with Down Syndrome would make a better governor ...


31 posted on 06/03/2025 6:19:19 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: HandBasketHell

Yep, campaigned from the basement just like Potatus, and won with cheat-by-mail-in ballots that were counted weeks after Election Day.


She was Secretary of State at the time. She. Ran. The. Election.


32 posted on 06/03/2025 6:23:17 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: Libloather
THIS...is what a WINNER looks like.

She doesn't whine. She doesn't tweet from the toilet with mis-spellings that her half moronic followers (and psyop disinformation agents posing as allies) think is some sacred prophetic code. (at least I don't think so)

She gets RESULTS.

Unlike our side. which LOSES.

Sure she has the media to help her. She has the cartels to help her. She has the judiciary to assist her if the Repugnicant's had the courage and brains to somehow sue like the left does very single time...

Our side is led from bottom to top...LOSERS.

Which means we need to ultimately prepare to LOSE. And we need to understand that really means.

33 posted on 06/03/2025 6:24:12 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: Mr Rogers

Wrong year. 2022. Supposedly 50.32% to 49.65% over Lake.


Yes. My mistake. Still, She was Secretary of State and ran her own election.

Lake shot herself in the foot, and the Cindy McCain machine in Maricopa preferred a radical leftist to a Trump supporter.


34 posted on 06/03/2025 6:27:37 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: Libloather

Gov. Hobbs doesn’t care what anyone says about her, she’s always got Dominion and a cabal of political criminals to back her up!


35 posted on 06/03/2025 6:28:00 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: Libloather

And the FBI just arrested two Chinese nationals in Michigan for attempting to smuggle a potential bio-weapon that could have infected our nation’s agriculture crops.


36 posted on 06/03/2025 6:35:39 PM PDT by grcuster
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To: Libloather

Close the bases.


37 posted on 06/03/2025 6:57:23 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Trump failure: Not declaring Antifa a terrorist organization.)
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To: Libloather

FFS this has been an issue near Huachuca as well. Wtf?


38 posted on 06/03/2025 7:01:15 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

39 posted on 06/03/2025 7:20:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Libloather

She’s my own personal worst person in the world Award-winner. has been for a long time.


40 posted on 06/03/2025 7:59:09 PM PDT by Migraine
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