ARIZONA FOCUS: Progressive Wins This Week
Progressive Majority endorsed two excellent candidates in Arizona in 2007. Both of them won.
Marie Lopez Rogers won as Mayor of Avondale with 52% of the vote. She was the incumbent having been appointed in 2006. Marie is a strong progressive, and she is the key to halting or slowing legislation from a city council that is dominated by conservatives.
This was previously an agricultural town that is rapidly growing with scores of subdivisions along Interstate-10 west of Phoenix. It also includes Phoenix International Race Way that attracts tens of thousands of people to NASCAR races. Marie wants to preserve the quality of life in Avondale by working for safer streets and neighborhoods, providing efficient cost-effective city services, and ensuring a vital economy through an appropriate balance of residential, commercial and recreational development.
John Williams won for Surprise City Council District 3 with 67% of the vote. That is a VERY big win. Particularly since John was a challenger in this race. He is a high school teacher, husband, father of three, and member of the Peoria Education Association. This is a rapidly growing city whose previous Council's actions were very controversial on a number of issues. John wants to bring quality jobs to Surprise so people can live and work there. In addition, he hopes to attract health care facilities to the town. John wants Surprise to be a city with services and opportunities where the children being raised there now will ultimately to able to live and raise their children.
Arizona is one of those states that Progressive Majority focuses on. Support Progressive Majority if you want to see more progressives winning in Arizona because they kick ass. May I also recommend the Native American Democrats of Northern Arizona, Democracy For America - Maricopa County, the Navajo Youth Democratic Forum, and Drinking Liberally Tucson as organizations in Arizona you might be interested in. Building the local grassroots is CRITICAL for these kinds of victories that really mean something to the citizens of Arizona.
Marie Lopez Rogers won as Mayor of Avondale with 52% of the vote. She was the incumbent having been appointed in 2006. Marie is a strong progressive, and she is the key to halting or slowing legislation from a city council that is dominated by conservatives.
This was previously an agricultural town that is rapidly growing with scores of subdivisions along Interstate-10 west of Phoenix. It also includes Phoenix International Race Way that attracts tens of thousands of people to NASCAR races. Marie wants to preserve the quality of life in Avondale by working for safer streets and neighborhoods, providing efficient cost-effective city services, and ensuring a vital economy through an appropriate balance of residential, commercial and recreational development.
John Williams won for Surprise City Council District 3 with 67% of the vote. That is a VERY big win. Particularly since John was a challenger in this race. He is a high school teacher, husband, father of three, and member of the Peoria Education Association. This is a rapidly growing city whose previous Council's actions were very controversial on a number of issues. John wants to bring quality jobs to Surprise so people can live and work there. In addition, he hopes to attract health care facilities to the town. John wants Surprise to be a city with services and opportunities where the children being raised there now will ultimately to able to live and raise their children.
Arizona is one of those states that Progressive Majority focuses on. Support Progressive Majority if you want to see more progressives winning in Arizona because they kick ass. May I also recommend the Native American Democrats of Northern Arizona, Democracy For America - Maricopa County, the Navajo Youth Democratic Forum, and Drinking Liberally Tucson as organizations in Arizona you might be interested in. Building the local grassroots is CRITICAL for these kinds of victories that really mean something to the citizens of Arizona.
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