Arizona Will Have A Chance To Elect Its First Latino Governor In Decades
Source: Huffington Post
08/28/2018 11:36 pm ET
Democrat David Garcia, an education expert and veteran, faces a tough contest against GOP Gov. Doug Ducey.
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By Kevin Robillard
David Garcia, an Army veteran and education expert, won the Democratic nomination on Tuesday to challenge Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, giving him a chance to become the state’s first Latino chief executive in more than 40 years.
Garcia’s main competition in his party’s primary was Steve Farley, a state legislator. But operatives in both parties had long expected Garcia to triumph, and Republican groups have already spent millions of dollars attacking him, mostly on the issue of immigration.
The general election will pit Ducey’s well-funded re-election bid ― he and the Republican Governors Association have already reserved more than $9 million worth of airtime for the race, and he’s a longtime favorite of the Koch political network ― against grassroots anger over the state’s public schools.
Strategists in both parties agree Ducey, the former CEO of Coldstone Creamery, was in a strong position to win a second four-year term until teachers went on strike this spring. Teacher pay in Arizona has been among the lowest in the U.S., and, along with better pay, the educators sought increased classroom funding.
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there's no reason why Arizona can't either.
Good luck to him! 
