1. Expect lots of vetoes. Unless election-denier Kari Lake's lawsuit is successful, Katie Hobbs has won the race for Arizona governor.
In many ways, that makes things easier for GOP leadership in the legislature - they can appease their most extreme members by allowing their bills to advance in the expectation that Hobbs will veto them.
2 Expect *many* bad measures out of the incoming legislature. AZBlueMeanie at Blog for Arizona already has a post up taking the position that this will be "the most extremist GQP legislature ever."
I was going to disagree with him - after all, this is still the home of the infamous SB1070; also, many of the most extreme members of the lege sought higher office and failed. Mark Finchem, Michelle Ugenti-Rita, Shawnna Bolick, and Kelly Townsend are gone; all lost in the primary or general this year.
However, some of the most extreme members of the 2022 lege are part of the 2023 lege - Wendy Rogers, Jake Hoffman, John Kavanagh and more all remain. And the ones who are no longer there were replaced by other extremists.
And they'll be around to influence the ones who are in the lege.
In short, in 2022 the legislature proposed over 90 anti-voting/anti-democracy bills. I'm going to take the "over" in 2023; they're already whining about the 2022 election.
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