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Alright, who wants to talk about everyone's favorite Arizona State Legislative district! That's right, we're talking about LD-06! This northern Arizona district stretches from Flagstaff to Show Low to Payson and went for Trump by 10% and McSally by 2%
Some of you may know this district's State Senator, Sylvia Allen. Allen was re-elected in 2018 by about 2%. Since then, she's complained about the "browning" of the United States and has introduced a bill to ban the word "homosexuality" from the state's SexEd curriculum.
This has caused some Republicans to grow kind of wary of her and someone filed to challenge her in the August primary. That someone is Wendy Rogers, who you may recognize as being Tom O'Halleran's challenger in 2018! https://www.pinalcentral.com/politics/rogers-announces-run-for-state-senate-seat/article_98e89ef5-8fb4-53fd-8f15-606d0aa7d9dc.html
On the Democratic side, US Army Veteran/2018 State House candidate Felicia French is running! French came within 600 votes of getting into the State House last year and with the Republican primary being potentially divisive this year, she has a chance! https://www.frenchforaz.com/
Now let's get to the State House. Republicans control the two State House seats here, with Bob Thorpe and Walter Blackman barely winning in 2018. Thorpe is term-limited, so Democrats/left-of-center folks are trying an interesting strategy this year...
Let's get to their first candidate, Coral Evans. Evans is a really good get for the Democrats, she's the mayor of Flagstaff and is running heavily on education. Probably one of their best recruits in the State Legislature: https://www.coralevansaz.com/
The next candidate is very interesting, it's Coconino County Supervisor Art Babbott. Babbott is an independent, but he is a left-leaning independent who, like Evans, is running heavily on education.
https://www.artforaz.com/
https://www.artforaz.com/
In conclusion, Arizona's 6th Legislative District may be a slightly tough lift for Democrats, but they have a decent chance of flipping the House and Senate seats thanks to some great recruiting. This would be huge in the Dems' chances of flipping both chambers.
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