Happy New Year! Thank You!

On Democracy Now recently, filmmaker and activist Michael Moore said voters want politicians who “won’t sell out” to special interests when they get into office.

Constituents have written to me and asked if I accept donations from the fossil fuel industry or the private prison industry or utility companies. I don’t accept donations from any of them, and I also don’t accept donations from Dirty Money political action committees, Planned Parenthood, unions, or corporate people. Running as a Clean Elections candidate I am free from special interest groups and the big money politics that swirls around me at the Capital.

Many thanks to everyone who everyone who answered my Christmas Eve Facebook post about wrapping up my Clean Elections Qualifying Contributions before the session starts on January 13, 2020. I need a minimum if 200 $5 donations (plus overage) from people in my district to qualify for public financing.

I currently have 215 $5 donations. I am over 200, but I need 230 to ensure a sufficient cushion (in case some are unreadable or otherwise disqualified). We can do this. The 2020 session will be a wild ride. I want to focus on you… the voters… while I am in Phoenix… not on campaigning.

Powers for the People volunteers — In 2019, my Postcard Party volunteers assembled, stamped, and labeled two mailings to voters and repurposed 1000s of 2018 palm cards for 2020 canvassing.

Many thanks to LD9 supporters who donated $5. I could not have done this without stalwart volunteers Lori Cinnamond, Barbara Warren, Jenise Pace Porter, Beth Britton and Alma Byrd who each took a stack of blank forms and returned them with $5s and to my husband Jim Hannley for cycling around Midtown with me collecting signatures and $5s. Also, I can’t forget the early work of my Postcard Party volunteers who helped with mass mailings to past $5 donors and who repurposed old 2018 campaign lit for 2020 canvassing. (Clean candidates are frugal.)

There’s still time to donate $5 and sign my petition if you live in LD9 and to donate seed money if you want to help but don’t live in LD9. All of the links are in this blog post.

Watch the Events tab on my Facebook page for canvassing opportunities beginning Saturday, January 4. I still need more signatures, and the temperatures are mild for walking the neighborhoods.

Thank you and Happy New Year. It has been an honor to serve you.