Rep. Raquel Terán, the current chair of the state’s Democratic Party, will move to the Senate to fill the seat of former state Sen. Tony Navarrete./Twitter
By Ray Stern | Arizona Republicw
Arizona state Rep. Raquel Terán, the current chair of the state’s Democratic Party, will move to the Senate to fill the seat of former state Sen. Tony Navarrete, who resigned last month amid criminal charges for child sexual abuse.
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors chose Terán from among three finalists during an executive session Wednesday, following a weeks-long vetting process by a citizens panel.
The switch leaves a new vacancy in the House of Representatives that the supervisors must now fill. By law, a state legislator’s replacement must come from the same political party.
Terán, D-Phoenix, won reelection in November to a second term as state representative; she’ll now serve the rest of Navarrete’s two-year term as a senator as he also won reelection last November. Both posts are in District 30, which covers the majority Hispanic neighborhoods on Phoenix’s west side.
