By Bob Christie | Capitol Media Services
Voters across Arizona will see their November ballot stuffed with 11 measures referred by Republican lawmakers that cover a wide range of GOP priorities, from tough on crime issues, new limits on how voters can put their own proposed laws on the ballot and reining in the so-called “regulatory state.”
But at the top of the GOP wish list is a wide-ranging border security measure that Republicans see as a key election-year issue and a counter to a Democrat-backed citizen initiative that would enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution.
That sets up a classic skirmish between the two parties for voters’ attention: backers of abortion rights versus opponents of the Biden Administration’s border policies.
Democrats point to the border proposal and others put on the ballot with only GOP support as divisive red-meat measures designed to get around opposition from the minority party in the state Legislature and Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs’ veto stamp.
