By Arizona Agenda
Two moderate Democrats are benefitting from mailers pitching them as “labor endorsed” — but those mailers aren’t coming from unions.
They come from a pack of big businesses interests.
As primary Election Day approaches, several corporations and commercial entities are pooling their money behind a few moderate Democrats in some of the most contentious battles for seats at the Arizona Legislature.
And serving those businesses and groups — which include Airbnb, the Arizona Association of Realtors, and Arizona Public Service — is a network of politicos and lobbyists led by a former top campaign advisor to Gov. Katie Hobbs.
Joe Wolf is one of Arizona’s most prominent Democratic political strategists. In 2022, he was the senior campaign adviser for Hobbs’ run for governor.
Nowadays, beyond running his consulting firm Fillmore Partners,1 he’s also the chair of Arizona Values Fund — a PAC that has been mailing out near-identical flyers in support of a few Democratic candidates: former Rep. Deborah Nardozzi and Reps. Alma and Consuelo Hernandez.
