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Risa LombardoGreenNot researched: below our published threshold
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Andy BiggsRepublicanKatie HobbsDemocratic, incumbent
State statements
TaxesNo. 01/12
Arizona should eliminate its state income tax.
Background
Arizona currently has a flat 2.5 percent personal income tax that helps fund the state budget. Eliminating it would remove that revenue source, requiring spending cuts or other revenue.
I have every confidence that as we manage it and we incrementally bring this down you're going to see more economic activity which is going to result in more tax revenue coming into the state.
Arizona should scale back eligibility for its universal education savings accounts.
Background
Since 2022, every Arizona K-12 student can get an education savings account to pay for private school or other education costs. Scaling it back would limit which students qualify, such as by income or prior public school enrollment.
Arizona should set limits on groundwater pumping in rural areas that currently have none.
Background
Most of rural Arizona has no state limits on how much groundwater can be pumped, unlike the state's major urban areas. This would create state rules to manage pumping in some of those rural basins.
Rural Arizonans are fed up with seeing their wells going dry and their futures being pumped out from beneath them as their precious groundwater aquifers are depleted and exploited
Campaign or official site · Jan 30, 2025 · retrieved Sep 24, 2026
Arizona should require state and local police to help enforce federal immigration law.
Background
Arizona agencies currently decide much of their own level of cooperation with federal immigration authorities. This would make that cooperation, such as honoring detention requests, a state requirement.
I will continue to work with the federal government on true border security, but we should not force state and local officials to take marching orders from Washington D.C.
Arizona should pay for state-built barriers along the border with Mexico.
Background
Border barriers are mainly a federal responsibility, though Arizona placed shipping containers along parts of the border in 2022 before removing them. This would use state funds to build or place barriers.
So similar to Texas, Governor Ducey in places down by Yuma put up those like railroad containers or container barriers, and so that's that's what they had, and she tore those down.
Arizona should keep covering low-income adults under Medicaid even if federal funding for them drops.
Background
Arizona covers low-income adults through Medicaid expansion, and a state law ends that coverage if the federal share falls below a set level. This would keep the coverage in place by using more state money if needed.
Arizona should require background checks for all gun sales, including private sales.
Background
In Arizona, licensed dealers must run background checks, but private sales between individuals do not require one. This would extend the check requirement to most private sales.
Arizona should require voters to show photo ID to vote by any method, including by mail.
Background
Arizona requires ID to vote in person, while mail ballots are verified by matching the voter's signature. This would add an ID requirement for mail and other early ballots.
Arizona should end its sales tax breaks for data center equipment.
Background
Arizona exempts qualifying data centers from state sales tax on computer equipment, and a recent state budget paused new certifications for three years instead of repealing the break. Ending it would raise the cost of building data centers in the state and add state revenue.
Arizona should keep its executive order speeding solar and wind projects on state trust land.
Background
An executive order directs state agencies to prioritize and speed up leasing of state trust land for solar and wind projects. Keeping it would continue that priority, while repealing it would treat these projects like other land uses.
Don't be fooled by this: Katie Hobbs is trying to stick Arizonans with more unreliable energy sources like solar and wind that will drive up costs on Arizona families and businesses.
A generation and transmission corridor strategic plan that identifies areas of opportunity to cut red tape related to the lease, sale, or other use of state lands
Campaign or official site · Sep 15, 2025 · retrieved Sep 28, 2026
Arizona should opt into the federal tax credit for donations to private school scholarship groups.
Background
A 2025 federal law created a tax credit for donations to scholarship groups, but it applies in a state only if the state opts in, and an Arizona bill to do so was vetoed. Opting in would let Arizona taxpayers claim the federal credit for such donations.
We have seen what happens when these types of programs lack accountability, transparency, and oversight. I hope the administration ensures any federal school choice program will have the much-needed guardrails Arizona's ESA program lacks.
Arizona should seek federal permission to bar food stamp purchases of soda and candy.
Background
Food stamp benefits can currently be used for soda and candy, though several states have received federal waivers to restrict such purchases. A waiver would limit what Arizona recipients can buy with their benefits.
This legislation unnecessarily deprives Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participants of their purchasing power and relegates them to a new underclass of grocery shoppers.