Matt Gress

Scottsdale, between essentially Indian School and the 101, and Paradise Valley, and Arcadia, and parts of, uh, small parts of Phoenix, like kind of like Madison, parts of Uptown.

Um, that's Karen Warner in the Senate, Matt Gress and Pamela Carter in the House.

There's two Democrats going against the two Republicans in the House, and then there's, uh, Aaron Lieberman, the Democrat against Karen Warner.

Uh, lots of help is needed there.

We got out of the Commerce Committee, um, and, uh, we survived that with a vote of nine to one.

The only vote against it was a guy named Matt Gress, who's a Republican who used to be the lapdog for Doug Ducey, the former governor of Arizona, who happened to be the CEO of Kahala Brands, the notoriously evil private equity-owned company that sued more of their franchisees than any other company in history before the company I'm fighting right now.

They have since overtaken that benchmark, and they're very proud.

Okay? And so Doug Ducey's former top aide voted against it and tried to get everybody else to vote against it, but it didn't work.

Why is this a controversial measure needed now? Uh, what brought this about, and is there organized opposition?

So this was brought about by Representative Matt Gress.

Um, he is the chair of the Education Committee in the House and frequently has spoken about the fact that teachers need to be paid more and has spoken about his support specifically for that.

And so he claimed that this, this measure was brought about to ensure that school budgets were prioritizing what he felt were the most important things.

He's still hospitalized.

ASU police are investigating, but Arizona House Education Committee Chair Matt Gress and Senate Education Committee Chair Hildy Angius say the university's response so far falls short.

They want the Board of Regents to bring in an independent investigator to review the circumstances of the practice.

Earlier this week, seven of Majic's teammates also called for an independent investigation, and they want coaching staff to be put on administrative leave until that's complete.

You have people like, they're all people who are within the Arizona State Legislature, people in leadership positions like Ben Toma or Teresa Martinez.

It also gave just kind of some high known kind of education freedom advocate type people like Matt Gress, who's been big on Have any of those candidates had anything to say about this money, this PAC? As far as I'm aware, no.

OK, so let's just look at the kind of the situation here, right? Like if you're looking at a complaint filed on behalf of this former teacher who has connections to the Arizona Education Association, the teachers union and a PAC, you know, funded by, you know, this big charter school company, the person who owns it and going to a lot of these pro school choice candidates.

I mean, is this sort of a proxy war?