I wasn't going to do one of these posts, as this isn't an election year for major county offices. However, with the resignation of county attorney Allister Adel, two major offices will be on the ballot this year - County Attorney and District 2 County Supervisor.
The one Democrat in the group, Julie Gunnigle, is an attorney and was a candidate for Maricopa County Attorney in 2020. I went to sign her petition online, but it was closed as she as already gained enough signatures to get on the ballot.
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Foster is an attorney and an insider. Adel may have been Bill Montgomery's choice for the office; Foster may be Doug Ducey's. Not exactly a positive character reference. Plus her campaign committee paperwork is also filled with insiders.
Twist is characterized as a "GOP power broker" by the AZ Mirror; I would characterize him as a "fixer". Ragan is a former aide to former US Senator Jon Kyl, someone with strong ties to Kirk Adams, former chief of staff to Doug Ducey, and the current treasurer for gubernatorial candidate Karrin Taylor Robson, another insider.
Republican Godbehere is a career prosecutor, with MCAO and now, the City of Goodyear.
ABC15 (Phoenix) has an article about the race that lists three additional candidates, but as of this writing, only the above-named three candidates have committees listed on the county's website.
Caveat: committees are about raising and expending funds. Sigs can still be collected without the formation of a committee.
Candidates just can't spend money while doing so.
As Supervisorial District 2 is not my district, I'll skip over that race for now.
