Representative Gail Griffin Archives

Griffin, Sundareshan Clash Over Data-Center Ideology

July 30, 2026 3:35 pm

PHOENIX — For Rep. Gail Griffin (R-19), Arizona’s data-center boom is a utility-planning problem: large power users should not leave residential customers paying for new power plants and transmission lines. For Senate Minority Leader Priya Sundareshan (D-18), the challenge is...

Griffin Expresses Concerns over Land Applicant Rights

January 23, 2026 3:27 pmFebruary 5, 2026 9:57 am

PHOENIX – The Arizona Legislature’s Joint Legislative Committee of Reference has moved this week to limit the Arizona State Land Department’s continuation period. While the period is typically an 8-year continuation, they approved a 4-year renewal, subject to substantial administrative...

Rogers Motivates Subscriber Base to Ensure 2026 GOP Win

December 23, 2025 1:54 pmJanuary 7, 2026 9:05 am

Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers, ranked as Arizona’s most prolific lawmaker, circulated a letter to her subscriber list this week asserting that national Democratic organizations are preparing to spend heavily in Arizona legislative races. She cited her legislative effectiveness and...

Geoengineering Bills Languish in Committee ‘Graveyard’

March 27, 2025 2:28 pmApril 1, 2025 9:40 am

Two legislative efforts to prohibit geoengineering practices in Arizona have failed to advance, as the Energy & Water Committee of the House Natural Resources declined to hear either bill. Geoengineering is defined as the “deliberate large-scale manipulation of an environmental...

Kerr and Gibson Win Salvo in State Water Wars

March 1, 2024 5:00 amMay 14, 2024 9:15 am

For years, an “underground war has literally been bubbling up over Arizona’s precarious water situation, with Republicans winning the latest salvo with the passage of Senate Bill SB1221. Western Maricopa Senator Sine Kerr (R-LD13), herself a farmer operating a 4th-generation...

State Republicans, AZ Farm Bureau Resign Over EDF Groundwater Takeover Bid

October 16, 2023 12:49 pm

In a dramatic display of unified opposition, Arizona Republicans, led by Representative Gail Griffin (R19), and the Arizona Farm Bureau announced their resignations from Gov. Hobbs’ Water Policy Council and Rural Groundwater Committee. The action was prompted by growing concerns...

Gail Griffin Releases Stark Warning About Arizona Groundwater Legislation

October 13, 2023 8:18 amJune 17, 2024 10:38 am

Arizona Representative Gail Griffin (R19) issued a warning to fellow legislators about a matched pair of state bills (HB2731 and SB1306) that would transfer control of rural groundwater management to a “small group of unelected bureaucrats” backed by out-of-state environmental...