For Star subscribers: Some GOP legislators, including three from the Tucson area, protested Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs' state of the state speech. Powers like Rep. Gail Griffin will be her bigger challenge.
Tim Steller Much is routine about an Arizona governor’s state of the state speech, whether the officeholder is a Republican or Democrat.
People are also reading… When Hobbs spoke in Phoenix, she was met by protests from some Republican legislators, including the three from the Tucson area’s new Legislative District 17. State Sen. Justine Wadsack joined Sen. Anthony Kern, a Glendale Republican, in standing and turning their backs on Hobbs.
Jones referenced Hobbs’ first-day executive orders when explaining via Twitter: “It took 5 seconds for Katie Hobbs to being legislating from the 9th floor, so I will not listen to her rhetoric for even 5 seconds. There are too many questions left unanswered, litigation still moving through the courts, and many concerns about the border, not pronouns.”
“I think it’s more of an issue for Republican leadership than it is for me,” she said. “It’s immature antics. I’m focused on the work in front of us and what we need to do to move our state forward.” For years, even as some Republican legislators proposed minor changes to groundwater law, such as measuring the pumped water, one legislator has stood in the way. Gail Griffin, of Hereford, has chaired the committees overseeing water laws in both the House and the Senate. Now she’s back in the House and holding the gavel in the Natural Resources, Energy and Water Committee.“It’s really unfortunate that she has stood in the way of that kind of progress,” Hobbs said of Griffin.
“It’s going to take acknowledgment that we’re in this crisis and that we all have to come together to deal with it,” Hobbs said. “I don’t know how anyone in a leadership position, especially someone who has been there as long as Gail, could refuse to acknowledge that this is part of the solution to the problem.”
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