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Petersen Backs Chief of Staff Josh Kredit’s GOP Budget Drama Comments

June 21, 2025 2:58 pmJune 27, 2025 4:48 pm

In an exclusive and candid conversation with the Arizona Globe during the Arizona Federation of Republican Women’s Summer Meeting today, June 21, 2025, Senate President Warren Petersen (R-14) confirmed that his Chief of Staff, Josh Kredit, was fully “within his...

Petersen, Shope Clash with GOP House Leaders over Budget

June 17, 2025 4:43 pmJune 23, 2025 4:29 pm

Arizona’s Republican-led Senate is moving forward with what leaders are calling a balanced and bipartisan budget, aiming to avoid a looming government shutdown and provide strategic investments in key areas without raising taxes. However, across the Capitol, House Republicans—surprisingly backed...

Montenegro Declines to Comment on Lack of Ethics Complaints

May 30, 2025 11:47 amJune 12, 2025 3:44 pm

On January 30, 2025, the Globe reported that Freshman Democrat Rep. Lydia Hernandez (Elda) Luna-Nájera (D-22) caused the Tolleson District to pay nearly half a million dollars in a settlement after findings of sexual harassment and retaliation. Even earlier, on...

Montenegro, Lake Decry Hobbs’s ‘Blackmail’ over Missing $122M

April 18, 2025 5:44 pmApril 25, 2025 7:04 am

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has intensified a political standoff by announcing she will veto all new legislation not on her desk until the Republican-controlled Legislature agrees to a bipartisan funding solution for the state’s Division of Developmental Disabilities (DDD). The...

Hobbs Shunned Gress-Chaired Ad Hoc Oversight Committee

April 11, 2025 4:32 pmApril 21, 2025 6:29 pm

Fourteen minutes before a scheduled ad hoc committee meeting on executive budget mismanagement on April 3, 2025, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs announced that her agencies were prohibited from participating. The committee, consisting of three Democrats and six Republicans, was formed...

Kolodin Explains Bill Assignments: ‘Appropriations, Expertise, or a Quiet Death’

March 26, 2025 3:47 pmApril 17, 2025 2:34 pm

During the 2025 legislative session, several high-profile bills received dual-committee assignments instead of the usual process of a single-committee approval ahead of a review by the rules committee. Critics claimed Speaker Montenegro intentionally sent these bills to multiple committees for...

Week in Review: For the Week of March 16, 2025

March 22, 2025 2:25 pmMarch 28, 2025 8:30 am

High Profile, Controversial Rallies Hit Arizona Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez held a rally at Arizona State University in Tempe, criticizing figures like former President Donald Trump and Elon Musk for policies they argue harm the working and...