By Reagan Priest | Arizona Capitol Times
Key Points:
- Gov. Katie Hobbs is already campaigning on $1.4 billion tax cut from bipartisan budget
- She managed to secure a data center tax moratorium and avoid setting a new veto record
- The governor will now set her sights on the Nov. 3 election in which she hopes to be reelected
For Gov. Katie Hobbs, the fourth and final legislative session of her first term in office serves as a model for how Arizona’s divided government forces state leaders to work across the aisle and compromise.
“I think the election year politics were a little more challenging this year, but at the end of the day we got the right thing done,” Hobbs, a Democrat, told the Arizona Capitol Times while sitting in her office on the Ninth Floor of the Executive Tower on June 30.
She is hoping voters will grant her another term in that office on Nov. 3, a date she swears to reporters she is not thinking about even as Republicans in the Legislature did their best to prevent her from coming away from the session with wins she could tout to voters.
