Mix of incumbents, challengers, open-seat contestants earn backing of Main Street group
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Chad Heinrich, Arizona State Director, [email protected]
or Tony Malandra, Senior Media Manager, [email protected]
PHOENIX, Sept. 12, 2022—The political action committee for Arizona’s largest and leading small-business association today endorsed 32 candidates for the Arizona Senate and Arizona House of Representatives.
NFIB AZ PAC based its endorsements on the voting records of incumbents and on the response to questionnaires returned by challengers and candidates running in open seats.
“We carefully vet our endorsed candidates, because small business doesn’t have the luxury of indulging a stray vote against us here and there,” said Chad Heinrich, NFIB’s Arizona state director, speaking for NFIB AZ PAC. “Small businesses in Arizona have worked with great success over the past several years in support of historic, pro-small-business policies, and while we know that new candidates will bring new energy and ideas we also hope that they have a sense of the legacy they’re inheriting and that we look forward to continuing to build a more pro-small-business state.”
The endorsed candidates are:
State Senate
- District 1—Ken Bennett
- District 2—Steve Kaiser
- District 3—John Kavanagh
- District 4—Nancy Barto
- District 9—Robert Scantlebury
- District 13—J.D. Mesnard
- District 14—Warren Petersen
- District 16—Thomas “T.J.” Shope
- District 19—David Gowan
- District 25—Sine Kerr
- District 27—Anthony Kern
- District 28—Frank Carroll
- District 30—Sonny Borrelli
State House
- District 1—Selina Bliss
- District 1—Quang Nguyen
- District 2—Christian Lamar
- District 2—Justin Wilmeth
- District 3—Joseph Chaplik
- District 4—Matt Gress
- District 4—Maria Syms
- District 13—Julie Willoughby
- District 14—Travis Grantham
- District 16—Rob Hudelson
- District 16—Teresa Martinez
- District 19—Lupe Diaz
- District 19—Gail Griffin
- District 25—Timothy “Tim” Dunn
- District 27—Kevin Payne
- District 27—Ben Toma
- District 28—David Livingston
- District 28—Beverly Pingerelli
- District 30—Leo Biasiucci
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Keep up with the latest on Arizona small business news at www.nfib.com/arizona or by following NFIB on Twitter @NFIB_AZ
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For almost 80 years, NFIB has been advocating on behalf of America’s small and independent business owners, both in Washington, D.C., and in all 50 state capitals. NFIB is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, and member-driven association. Since its founding in 1943, NFIB has been exclusively dedicated to small and independent businesses and remains so today. For more information, please visit nfib.com.
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