By Johanna-Rosalye
PHOENIX, AZ – After a long and contentious battle, the race for governor was called six days after the election for Democratic candidate Katie Hobbs.
On Monday, a decisive day for Arizona politics, the race had finally been called turning the state blue, a state that had long seen red. Hobbs will be the first democratic governor to take office for Arizona since former Governor Janet Napolitano, serving from 2003 to 2009, who left office to take over as third United States Secretary of Homeland Security for the Obama Administration.
Hobbs Republican gubernatorial opponent, Kari Lake, has refused to concede, and yet to contact Hobbs on her win. When asked in an interview for a local news station if Hobbs would take a call from Lake congratulating her Hobbs stated that she would take Lake’s call and is ready to work for the people of Arizona, bring people together.” Adding, “ things are divided right now, if she were to call to congratulate it would be an important step to healing some of the division.”
The Governor-elect believers that there is “ a long way to go to bring people together and get away from this divisiveness”. The focus is to continue to bring transparency to in how safe and secure elections … The people are divided in democracy, which has made the elections very contentious and losing the confidence of the people. Hobbs is looking to change that by bring confidence back to the people of Arizona starting with it’s institutions and leadership providing transparency and accountability so that trust can be rebuilt.
One of the first plans of action once taking office, Hobbs plans to call a special session to repeal the state’s near total abortion ban. Other challenges she will take on are the rising costs for Arizonans, fixing the neglected public education system, removing the spending cap on Arizona K-12 schools and improving the election system for a quicker counting process in tight contest. The governor-elect is in search for bipartisan leadership to tackle these issues and protect the fundamental freedoms of the people.
In addition, Hobbs has selected her transition team with democrat and republican co-chairs. Republican and executive director of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Monica Villalobos and Democrat, former member of the Janet Napolitano administration Mike Haener, will work jointly to find the right people who will take place of the executive staff of all 34 state agencies.
Hobbs is slated to take office on January 2, 2023 as Arizona 24th governor.
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