Alexander Kolodin

in this survey.

Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, who we've had on the show over the years, he leads, uh, State Rep Alexander Kolodin by nearly 12 points in his reelection contest for secretary of state in Arizona.

In an open seat contest for state treasurer, a seat currently held by a Republican, the Democratic candidate is leading that Republican now by nine points.

Another, uh, s- open seat, the superintendent of public instruction, uh, along with the treasurer, uh, the only statewide seat won by Republicans back in 2022 in Arizona.

I have friends on both sides of the aisle down at the legislature.

Uh, as a councilwoman, I had to work with, um, Alex Kolodin-

Mm-hmm

... on the Rio Verde water crisis, for instance, and Tom Galvin and, and several others.

And he can't now admit that President Biden won that election, but then wants to argue this is not about 2020, and this is not the, the, uh...

Rep. Kolodin's third, fourth attempt to repeal vote-by-mail since the 2020 election.

That is...

That- that's some stick-to-it-iveness.

Because it-

The motivation is to get rid of vote-by-mail.

This is Kolodin's fourth attempt to do so.

This is just a sloppy latest iteration of this guy's zealotry.

What we found out was that the voters that normally vote in the primaries that didn't vote this time, their top concern is honest elections.

But when we educated them on what has happened in Arizona, uh, we have, uh, Representative Alex Kolodin, who is running for Secretary of State, huge champion on election integrity, and he's passed a number of, uh, very large, uh, election integrity bills that has gone a long way in improving our elections here in Arizona.

We now have Recorder Justin Heap that is, uh, an election integrity champion, the best recorder in the country on, uh, in my opinion.

Uh, and he has worked very hard to secure our elections.

He became a member of the Freedom Caucus immediately.

So everyone was putting out all these fear-mongering messages, uh, into that district, and I said, "No.

What we're gonna do is we're gonna take Cody's scorecard." And, and I, all I did was I took a picture of him and, and his seatmate, uh, Rep Alex Kolodin, who's running for secretary of state.

There was a picture that got posted on the, on X with the two of them standing together, and I just posted their Republican Liberty Caucus scorecards, which was 100% and 98%.

Listeners may remember this one from our episode on the Secretary of State's race.

Republican nominee Alex Kolodin calls this a key piece of his agenda.

What would this ballot measure do?

So this measure is probably one of the, the biggest and the ones that we will be watching the closest for Election Day, but it would have pretty sweeping election reforms in the state, and it would amend the Constitution to require all voters to show government-issued identification before they cast a ballot, and that is across the board, so in-person, mail-in ballots, everything.

They, they don't want this to happen again.

They don't want this to happen to Andy Biggs, Alex Kolodin, Warren Peterson, all the great candidates that are running for these statewide positions.

And, you know, it's causing a lot of anxiety for the people of Arizona.

Hang on.

Right.

And, um, if you missed it, um, Alex Kolodin said, and he said it on multiple occasions, that Adrian Fontes was the Sinaloa cartel lawyer.

And I think what he's alluding to is the fact that Adrian Fontes used to be a, a, a defense attorney, but I think he was also in the public defender's office, right?

I have that clip.

The poll shows that Democrats are now almost as likely as Republicans to have their doubts about the elections process.

Your opponent's known for wanting to reform elections based on the idea that they're not fair and accurate.

Do you agree with him on any election reforms, since so many Democrats aren't feeling comfortable?

Let's be real clear.