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Report: AZ Democrat Katie Hobbs Embroiled in Another Race Controversy
Breitbart ^ | 10 Oct 2022 | NICK GILBERTSON

Posted on 10/11/2022 11:39:29 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

PHOENIX, AZ –Democrat nominee for governor in Arizona, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, finds herself amid another race controversy as she was a “student leader” during her high school days “when pupils took part in a yearly tradition known as ‘Slave Day,'” according to a report Monday.

Breitbart News reached out to multiple members of the “Republicans for Katie Hobbs” coalition, who stumped for Hobbs in Paradise Valley Sunday, to see if they still support Hobbs, but only one responded to a comment request. Former Scottsdale Mayor Sam Campana reaffirmed her support for the Democrat in the wake of the Daily Mail’s shocking report. On Monday, the outlet reported that Hobbs was a member of the student council at Seton Catholic Preparatory High School, where “Slave Day” was an annual tradition:

One example from the 1985 yearbook, which would have been the end of Hobbs’ freshman year, describes “slaves” in her grade “wearing unbecoming hairdoes and unbecoming outfits, sporting embarrassing signs and performing embarrassing acts of servitude for senior masters for a day.”

It’s not clear if Hobbs participated herself in the “auctions,” but her 1987 Student Council page credits her and the other student leaders for having “coordinated the many class events during Spirit Week” – when Slave Day appears to have been celebrated.

A 1986 yearbook shows one photo of a girl seemingly sporting black paint on her face while participating in “Slave Day,” and members of the senior class were subjects of auctions, per the Mail. Hobbs’s team ignored three comment requests from the publication.

Lake, who attended a dueling rally held by former President Donald J. Trump on Sunday in Mesa, pointed out in a statement Monday that Hobbs is a “twice convicted racist” stemming from the Talonya Adams lawsuit.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
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Hobbs refuses to debate Lake and caught heat last week for struggling to name one thing she has learned from Arizona’s Latino community.

1 posted on 10/11/2022 11:39:29 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie

I tweeted Hobbs asking her what kind of yummy foods they had at slave day, but she never responded. You listen to her talk and you just know she’s an idiot..she makes Biden sound coherent


2 posted on 10/11/2022 11:40:43 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: SoConPubbie

“Republicans for Katie Hobbs”?? Reminds me of Virginia, where former “republican” Senator John Warner not only endorsed Democrat Mark Warner for the Senate, but he actually made a commercial for him. And no need to mention the glorious warmonger Bush and Cheney families - they want conservatives around at Election Time, the rest of the time they can laugh at you bc such backstabbing mockery will get them invited to a dinner or drink with the Democratic elites, to which they really belong. And if they trash Trump and the populists enough, their family members might get hired by the media at high levels of compensation. There’s much to be made by sellouts and they are not giving up their principles since they never had any.


3 posted on 10/11/2022 11:50:39 AM PDT by laconic
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To: SoConPubbie

Racist, okay with FULL TERM baby killing vile minion .... please, AZ, shove this evil being to the sea (to the curb!!).


4 posted on 10/11/2022 11:52:56 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: SoConPubbie

demoncrat, or republican, this is one of the silliest ‘issues’ I’ve heard of all year.


5 posted on 10/11/2022 12:45:03 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: zeugma

People shouldn’t be held accountable for the stupid things they did as kids ( she was 14 freshman ). There enough out there to show why she doesn’t deserve to be governor.


6 posted on 10/11/2022 1:03:28 PM PDT by Striperman (Striperman)
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Hey... We had that in school too... It was a lot of fun for everyone and no one complained one bit, not even the Blacks or hispanics because we were all equally slaves. It was a chance to party and drink on campus and raised a lot of money for Senior trip.

Only total crybabies would have bitched, And they would have been shunned by EVERYONE the following four years for being a crybaby. and not allowed to participate when it was their turn as a senior. A black guy bought me... It was fun... We got drunk at the event lunch on the lawn. lol


7 posted on 10/11/2022 1:08:31 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: zeugma

Quote: “demoncrat, or republican, this is one of the silliest ‘issues’ I’ve heard of all year.”

This is one of those “sauce for the goose” kind of moments. It is horribly silly, BUT exactly what the dems have been using to cancel our side.


8 posted on 10/11/2022 1:21:53 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: SoConPubbie

Well, it was a Catholic school, so maybe the “slaves” were meant to symbolize Christians enslaved by the Turks.


9 posted on 10/11/2022 1:31:57 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: SoConPubbie
Big deal on this issue! There are things, I said in HIGH SCHOOL that would be 1) Racist, 2) Sexist, 3) Homophobic and 4) Who knows what else that was common in the 70 that is offensive today!

Katie Hobbs should lose to Keri, because Katie is hiding...

10 posted on 10/11/2022 1:32:29 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Defund the FBI, the American Stasi..)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

There is a reason she refused to debate Kari Lake.
They were afraid she would do so badly, she would torpedo Mark Kelly too.

Frankly Hobbs is toast.
I expect a clean sweep in Nov as Kari will drag everyone else with her.


11 posted on 10/11/2022 1:54:08 PM PDT by Zathras
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Why wear black face to appear as a slave? The first slaves I remember were in the middle east building Pharoah’s pyramids. Were the serfs of Britain much different than slaves? The Romans brought back slaves from everywhere in the world. If you are going to have a Slave Day, think globally.


12 posted on 10/11/2022 2:30:14 PM PDT by Savage Rider
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