Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes has announced the launch of her campaign for reelection.
In a written statement, Mayes said, “By protecting Arizonans from corporate greed, safeguarding our groundwater for generations to come, and standing up to Donald Trump’s unlawful attacks on our Constitution, I’ve been a lawyer for the people every single day."
Mayes has spent much of this year suing the Trump administration over executive orders and funding cuts for federal agencies.
In 2022, Mayes won by 280 votes over Republican Abe Hamadeh.
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A pair of education groups are proposing a ballot initiative to rein in Arizona's universal school voucher program — which has ballooned to a nearly billion-dollar-a-year expense since first approved in 2022. -
Gov. Katie Hobbs signed a new law permanently moving Arizona’s primary elections up from August to the second-to-last Tuesday in July. -
A judge has intervened in the latest dust up between the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and Recorder Justin Heap by temporarily blocking subpoenas that would have required the recorder’s staff to testify before the board about allegations that voters were disenfranchised in past elections. -
In a three-way race, Chairman Kasey Velasquez earned a little over 400 votes, while his challengers both received nearly four times as much, according to unofficial results from the White Mountain Apache Tribe Election Commission. -
The chair of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors subpoenaed staffers from County Recorder Justin Heap’s office to clear up contradictory claims they’ve made in court and public meetings alleging some voters were disenfranchised in past elections.
