2022 AZ Governor's race: on Principles & Values


Doug Ducey: Entrepreneur and "conservative ice cream guy"

Republican Doug Ducey Is the self-professed "conservative ice cream guy." As governor, Ducey has largely conformed to that description, especially when it comes to state spending and taxes, but he has also avoided confrontation on some social issues.

After graduating with a degree in finance in 1986, Ducey joined up with the founder of Cold Stone Creamery And helped turn a shop into a global brand with more than 1,400 stores. He eventually became CEO. In 2007, at the age of 43, Ducey helped engineer a merger with another Arizona franchising heavyweight, Kahala Corp. He got very rich in the process, but that corporate marriage didn't work out, an experience Ducey described to Bloomberg Business as "incredibly frustrating and disappointing, but equally liberating all at once". Ducey took some time off, refocused, and became the lead investor and chairman of the board of iMemories, a friend's technology start up in Scottsdale, which helps people digitize their home movies and share them online.

Source: Almanac of American Politics on 2022 Arizona Governor race Oct 5, 2015

Kari Lake: Cancel culture is meant to keep people from speaking out

[On free speech]: "That's exactly what that ugliness and cancel culture and name-calling is meant to do: keep people from speaking out, getting involved & doing the right thing. If we all cower when the media, social media trolls and hateful people try to hurt us, we will never accomplish great things," said Lake. "I am running because I care too deeply about this state and the wonderful people who live here to sit on the sidelines and watch us adopt the same policies that left California in shambles."
Source: The Western Journal on 2022 Arizona Gubernatorial race Jun 2, 2021

Karrin Taylor Robson: All rights flow from God, not the government

All rights flow from God, not the government. Karrin will fight any attempts by the radical Left to infringe on our Constitutional rights, including free speech and freedom of religion.
Source: 2022 Arizona Governor campaign website KarrinForArizona.com Jun 24, 2022

Katie Hobbs: Never seen nation so divided; seen it up close in Arizona

I've never seen our nation so divided, and I've seen it up close here in Arizona. It's time to roll up our sleeves and start healing--physically healing from the COVID crisis, healing our economy from a year of shutdown, and bringing our state back together after the incendiary and divisive politics of the last few years. I'm ready. I hope you'll join me.
Source: 2022 Arizona Gubernatorial campaign website KatieHobbs.org Dec 20, 2021

Matt Salmon: Democrat values scare the heck out of me

[On the 2022 Arizona election] "I just really worry that if we're not on our toes, Democrats are going to take the whole trifecta--both U. S. Senate seats and the governorship--and we will turn into a blue state," Salmon told KTAR News. "If those values that the Biden administration is espousing on behalf of the Democrat Party is what the future for Arizona is, it scares the heck out of me and I'm not going to sit by and watch that happen."
Source: KTAR Glendale 92.3-FM on 2022 Arizona Gubernatorial race Jun 17, 2021

Matt Salmon: Can't let liberal politicians turn Arizona into California

Today, the Arizona values we cherish, they're under attack from Washington, from liberals here at home. Open borders and closed classrooms. Crushing tax hikes and socialism. Censorship. Cancel culture. Radical Democrats are pushing the most far-left agenda in our lifetime. We can't allow liberal politicians to turn Arizona into California.
Source: Arizona Republic on 2022 Arizona Gubernatorial race Jun 16, 2021

Steve Gaynor: Would occupy highest office held by Jewish person in AZ

For five years the Gaynors have been members of the same synagogue in Scottsdale, the Scottsdale-based Jewish News has reported. If elected, Gaynor would occupy the highest statewide office ever held by a Jewish person in Arizona.
Source: Phoenix New Times on 2022 Arizona Gubernatorial race Nov 4, 2018

Kari Lake: I'm working hard to earn your vote; she's avoiding a debate

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ADVERTISER: Yuma County Republican Party/Lake for AZ Governor

Kari Lake is answering the tough questions and working hard to earn your vote. [Graphic: "Earning Your Vote" with background scene "Arizona Kari Lake, Nov. 22" appearing like a car license plate on podium with Lake speaking in a full-color video]. But Katie Hobbs is too timid to debate or defend her liberal record: [Graphic: "Katie Hobbs Running Away From a Debate", Arizona Republic Columnist Laurie Roberts, 10/12/22, headline and byline with background scene of Katie Hobbs in a still B&W photo]: crisis at the border; skyrocketing inflation; a looming recession. Arizonans want answers and solutions, and they deserve a gubernatorial debate. If Katie Hobbs is too afraid to debate, how can we trust her to make the tough choices? Katie Hobbs is too weak to lead Arizona. [Graphic: another Katie Hobbs B&W still photo with caption "Paid for by Yuma County Republican Central Committee; Authorized by Kari Lake."

Source: AdImpact.com AdWatch on 2022 Arizona Gubernatorial race Oct 17, 2022

Kari Lake: 2020 resulted in illegitimate fool in the White House

Arizona Republican nominee Kari Lake has put false claims about the 2020 election at the center of her campaign--repeatedly and falsely declaring the election "stolen" and even calling it "disqualifying" and "sickening" that her top rival in the party primary wouldn't say the same. In early August, Lake said of Biden: "Deep down, I think we all know this illegitimate fool in the White House--I feel sorry for him--didn't win."

Lake has said she would not have certified Biden's victory in Arizona if she had been governor. She has continued, even in 2022, to demand the decertification of the Biden-won states of Arizona and Wisconsin, though that is a legal impossibility.

Lake has made numerous false claims about the 2020 election. She has falsely claimed Biden didn't receive 81 million votes he indeed received, falsely claimed Trump won Arizona, though he actually lost by more than 10,000 votes, and promoted baseless conspiracy theories about the vote count.

Source: CNN on 2020 Election Denial in 2022 Arizona Governor race Sep 9, 2022

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Candidates and political leaders on Principles & Values:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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