Meet Alan Smith
Candidate for Arizona State Senate
in Legislative District 15
My name is Alan Smith and I am running for the Arizona State Senate in your District 15 including Southeast Mesa, Queen Creek & San Tan Valley.
“Vote for the candidate who will best represent you, your priorities and Arizona’s priorities.” Alan Smith, Democrat
We all want Arizona to be a safe, welcoming, educated, happy, healthy, progressive state. I want to represent you and your priorities to make this happen. Though we may not agree on all the issues, I will always welcome open discussion so we can do what is best for Arizona.
Before deciding to run for office I was enjoying my retirement after a 38 year career as an insurance auditor and had started volunteering one day per week as a teacher aide at a Mesa elementary public school. I also joined the board of Walking Down Ranch, a 501c3 non-profit in Lakeside AZ assisting homeless veterans with transitional housing, food, clothing, benefits assistance and counseling. My past volunteer services include: Boy Scout Scoutmaster, coaching youth basketball & baseball, Jaycee officer of the year, President of local & regional auditor’s associations and VP of a national audit association. I strongly believe in giving back to the community. When I retire from public service, like the Boy Scout policy of “no trace camping,” I want to leave Arizona much better than I find it today.
Being an auditor, I know my way around a financial statement. I plan to be a “fiscal conservative.” I am conservative in my own budget and will do the same in the legislature.
These are some of the Arizona Priorities I want to change or improve:
-Fully funding our public schools, community colleges and state universities. Over 90% of our children attend public schools which are among the worst funded in the US. Our teachers and aids are poorly paid and non-certified teachers are now in our classrooms.
-Stop universal vouchers that are sending taxpayer money to private schools and taking it from our public schools. We have sent $700 Million to private schools and the home school programs with the vast majority going to subsidizing the rich who can already afford private schools. It is expected this program will defund our pubic schools by $1 Billion dollars within the year. It is a fake school choice issue if the remaining private school tuition, after the voucher, is not possible on a family’s income.
-Women’s Rights and especially, Women’s Reproductive Rights. When to have a family and whether or not to carry a child to full term is a woman’s choice. As we have seen, all types of complications can arise in a pregnancy that making any type of abortion illegal is putting women’s lives at risk. Women’s lives matter.
-Common Sense gun & weapon legislation. Republicans won’t even ban brass knuckles. We need to close the gun show loophole. Gun sales need to be handled only by registered dealers. Safe secure needs to be in place to stop curious children from handling a weapon in a home with guns. We do not need military style weapons in the marketplace- they are mass killing machines.
-Continue use of early and mail-in voting. Continue using vote tabulators. Voting only on election day and hand counting them would create absolute chaos with questionable results available weeks if not month later.
-Water use must be measured and used appropriately. Our aquifers are being depleted, residential and small farm’s are seeing their wells are run dry, the ground is cracking and collapsing. Corporate farms will just leave the state when the water is gone or the salt accumulation ruins the soil.
These core priorities will shape the decisions I make as your state senator. My opponent, Jake Hoffman, is against all of these priorities. He is only special interest focused: He is for universal vouchers for private schools, wants to ban all birth control and make all abortions illegal with no exceptions. He is also against early & mail-in voting, wants a hand count and all Arizonans to vote on election day only. He is 100% NRA and opposes water Active Management Areas. Hoffman brings only his own agenda to governance and does not take into account your priorities or Arizona’s Priorities.
Vote for Alan Smith for State
Senate in LD 15. Alan will be listen to you so we can legislate what is best for Arizona now and in the future.
Note: LD 15 boundaries are South of Highway 60 and East of Power Rd and includes Southeast Mesa, Queen Creek and San Tan Valley.
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