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Fundraising high in local board, LD12 races BY KEN SAIN AND PAUL MARYNIAK Arizonan News Staff
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NEWS ................................... 5 Chandler Veterans Commission plans celebrations.
SPORTS ........................... 38 Chandler athletes’ deep connections to NFL
COMMUNITY.................................. 30 BUSINESS.......................................... 34 SPORTS.............................................. 38 GET OUT............................................ 40 CLASSIFIEDS..................................... 42
October 30, 2022
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s candidates enter the final stretch before the Nov. 8 General Election, some in races for school board and legislative seats impacting northern and western Chandler have been helped by thousands of dollars in campaign support. Voters in Legislative District 12 are picking the senator and two state House members who will represent them for the next two years as well as filling two seats on the governing boards for Kyrene, Tempe Union and Chandler Unified school districts.
Voters in Tempe Union also are being asked to weigh in on two capital spending overrides and a $100 million bond issue. Not surprisingly, the most cash is going into – and being spent by – the campaigns in LD 12, where Republicans are trying to crack a district that has been all-blue for the last six years. County Recorder data shows registered Republicans with 44,881 registered voters take a backseat to both the 51,376 voters registered as independents and 50,841 Democrats. But in the race for cash, LD 12 Republican
Tempers flare during Council NDO debates BY KEN SAIN Arizonan Managing Editor
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feisty Chandler City Council on Oct. 24 began hammering out what a non-discrimination ordinance (NDO) would look like and the heated discussion led to confrontations, accusations, some shouting and pleas to follow decorum. “I’m desperately trying to get through this meeting and you are desperately getting in the way of that,” Mayor Kevin Hartke told Councilman OD Harris. “I am
reaching the end of my patience, and I would appreciate it if you would show the respect and the decorum that we have shown you.” Chandler is the largest city in Arizona without a NDO and Council has been exploring how to improve its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) for two years. “What I don’t like is that people are being discriminated in our ordinance in our city,” Harris said. “And we’re playing games
see NDO page 14
and Democrat candidate camps combined each have raised almost an equal amount of donations, according to their most recent available spending reports filed Oct. 15. The three Republican candidates – Senate hopeful and Ahwatukee scientist David W. Richardson and termed-out Chandler Councilman Terry Roe and Chandler CPA Jim Chaston have raised a combined $306,844. Democratic Senate hopeful and current state Rep. Mitzi Epstein of Tempe and House candidates Patty Contreras and Stacy Tra-
see LD12 page 10
These treats aren’t tricky
Lola Forbes, chef and co-owner of Spooky’s Swirls Gluten Free Bakery in Chandler shows off some Halloween fare in the Horror and SciFi Prop Preservation Association Museum that is also part of the business. To read about both, turn to page 34, Friday, October 21, 2022, in Chandler Arizona.
(David Minton/Staff Photographer)
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