Sen. Janae Shamp, R-Surprise, speaking with attendees at a press conference hosted by Border 911 at the Arizona State Capitol building in Phoenix, Arizona. (Gage Skidmore / Flickr)
By Arizona Capitol Times
What’s in a hat? By any other name, it would still look just as cool.
For the Arizona Capitol Times this week, we decided to have a bit of fun during a tense and spicy legislative session. We asked four senators about their hats, either the ones in their official Senate photos or the ones they wear most often.
Arizona is the American Southwest and there’s no shortage of Western history and culture. It has spilled over into the Legislature and seeing anyone donning a cowboy hat on any given day is not uncommon. Here are the stories under the hats.
PS: Sens. T.J. Shope, David Gowan and Mark Finchem, happy to chat about your hats too! Just throw your hat in our ring.
Sen. Janae Shamp
Shamp’s blue-roan hat is only available from JW Brooks Custom Hats in Lipan, Texas (about an hour west of Fort Worth). A friend told her about it and she went out of her way to find it. It’s not custom made, but shaped in the classic cowboy cut, she said. Her husband buys her hats and for Shamp, that just adds an extra sense of love.
