Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is on track to break a veto record she set two years ago.
So far this week, Hobbs has struck down two sets of bills sent to her desk by the GOP-controlled Legislature. That brings her total number of vetoes this year to 138.
That’s just five shy of the record she set for a single legislative session in 2023, her first year in office.
Many of the vetoed bills passed on party lines, with Republican support and unanimous Democratic opposition.
Among the latest rejected bills were a measure to require hotels and motels to warn guests that they also provide rooms for the homeless, and a bid to force high schools to teach students about the Gulf of America, the new name President Donald Trump unilaterally gave to the Gulf of Mexico.
-
An Arizona judge last month ruled the newly-named Arizona Independent Party could not call itself that, and needed to revert back to what it used to be known as: the No Labels Party; the party chair said he’d appeal. -
Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk, the widow of the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk, is planning a visit to in the Paradise Valley High School District next week. -
Mexico is calling for thorough investigations into the deaths of 15 Mexican nationals in ICE detention or during immigration enforcement action since the start of President Donald Trump’s term. -
Third-party gubernatorial candidate Hugh Lytle will be on the ballot this year after a judge tossed out a challenges against him on Wednesday. -
The top Department of Justice official in Arizona is reviewing a referral from the Republican state Senate president, who accused Attorney General Kris Mayes and Adrian Fontes of interfering in a federal investigation into the 2020 presidential election.
