Biggs on Arizona Political Climate

Representative Andy Biggs (R-AZ) discussed the political climate in Arizona in a recent interview with Cactus Politics, saying Governor Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) is mainly responsible for it.

CACTUS POLITICS: You were Senate President of the Arizona legislature. Considering your experience here, what do you make of the climate in Arizona, as far as the political climate now, obviously, if there's a Democrat governor, what do you make as far as how it's being managed, the whole state, considering you were State Senate President?

BIGGS: Well, I mean, the problem that you have is everything from Governor Hobbs coming in, and almost immediately she got rid of some, like the border security task force that was within the Department of Public Safety, and she said she basically bought into the Biden "There's no border problem. We're going to leave it open." So we were getting flooded, just absolutely flooded. So you have all the criminality that goes with it, because, no matter how good some of the people are in the big groups that are coming in, you're gonna have bad people too. So that was a problem.

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The Snakebite is written by Grayson Bakich and Javier Manjarres