Doug Ducey recall, Governor of Arizona (2017)
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An effort to recall Doug Ducey, a member of the Republican Party, from his elected position as Governor of Arizona was launched on April 7, 2017.[1] The recall effort did not receive the required 376,604 signatures before the August 5, 2017, deadline.[2]
Timeline
- April 7, 2017: Paperwork filed for recall effort
- August 5, 2017: Deadline to turn in 376,604 signatures
Background
Gov. Ducey signed Senate Bill 1431 into law on April 6, 2017. According to The Arizona Republic, the bill expands the state's Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESA) program, which allows students to take 90 percent of their per-pupil public funding and apply it to private school tuition.[3] The bill sets a program enrollment cap of 30,000 students by 2022.[1]
Voucher schools in Arizona have drawn criticism because of a lack of oversight and misappropriation of funds. An audit by the state's attorney general discovered that more than $102,000 in ESA funds were misspent from August 2015 to January 2016. Less than 15 percent of those funds were recovered. Legislative opponents of ESA expansion, such as State Sen. Kate Brophy McGee (R), cited this report in opposition of Senate Bill 1431.[4]
Gov. Ducey signed House Bill 2404 into law on March 23, 2017. It was designed to do the following:
- prohibit paying initiative circulators according to the number of signatures collected;
- make paying circulators on a per-signature basis a class 1 misdemeanor; and
- increase the number of days that legal challenges to the registration of circulators can commence from five days to ten business days after signatures are filed.
Andrew Chavez, an owner of a petition firm called Petition Partners, said the proposal creates a barrier for citizen initiatives. "[It's] intended to slow down or stop the initiative process," he said.[5]
A veto referendum signature petition drive targeting HB 2404 was also started. Grassroots Citizens Concerned sponsored the filing of the veto referendum petition on March 30, 2017. Mike Shipley, a Libertarian candidate for the 9th Congressional District in 2016, was marked as the applicant for the petition.
Recall supporters
Leonard Clark filed recall paperwork against Ducey on behalf of the "Con of Cons Doug Ducey AZ Gov. Recall Committee." He cited Ducey's signing of Senate Bill 1431 and House Bill 2404 as reasons for initiating the recall effort.[1]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Laws governing recall in Arizona
Recall paperwork was filed against Gov. Ducey on April 10, 2017. Supporters of the recall had until August 5, 2017, to submit 376,604 valid signatures to move the recall forward.[1] Because the required number of signatures was not collected before the August 5, 2017, deadline, the recall did not proceed.[2]
Election history
2014
- See also Arizona Gubernatorial election, 2014
Ducey ran for Governor of Arizona in 2014.[6] He overtook seven Republican opponents to win the party's nomination in the August 26 primary election. He defeated Democrat Fred DuVal, Libertarian Barry J. Hess and a number of minor party and write-in opponents in the general election on November 4, 2014. The general election took place on November 4, 2014.
| Governor of Arizona, 2014 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican |  Doug Ducey |
53.4% | 805,062 | |
| Democratic | Fred DuVal | 41.6% | 626,921 | |
| Libertarian | Barry J. Hess | 3.8% | 57,337 | |
| Americans Elect | J.L. Mealer | 1% | 15,432 | |
| Nonpartisan | Write-ins | 0.1% | 1,664 | |
| Total Votes | 1,506,416 | |||
| Election results via Arizona Secretary of State | ||||
| Governor of Arizona Republican Primary, 2014 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
| Doug Ducey |
37.2% | 200,607 | ||
| Scott Smith | 22.1% | 119,107 | ||
| Christine Jones | 16.7% | 89,922 | ||
| Ken Bennett | 11.5% | 62,010 | ||
| Andrew Thomas | 8.1% | 43,822 | ||
| Frank Riggs | 4.5% | 24,168 | ||
| Mike Aloisi (Write-in) | 0% | 27 | ||
| Alice Lukasik (Write-in) | 0% | 27 | ||
| Total Votes | 539,690 | |||
| Election results via Arizona Secretary of State. | ||||
2010
Ducey was elected to the treasurer's office on November 2, 2010, defeating Democrat Andrei Cherny and two others in the general election. He was then sworn into office on January 3, 2011.[7]
| Arizona Treasurer, 2010 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Doug Ducey |
51.9% | 859,672 | |
| Democratic | Andrei Cherny | 41.4% | 685,865 | |
| Green | Thomas Meadows | 2.8% | 46,115 | |
| Libertarian | Thane Eichenauer | 4% | 66,166 | |
| Total Votes | 1,657,818 | |||
| Election results via Arizona Secretary of State | ||||
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Arizona Republic, "School-voucher, initiative bills spur Gov. Doug Ducey recall effort," April 10, 2017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pinal Central, "Ducey recall effort fails," August 4, 2017
- ↑ The Arizona Republic, "What's moving forward, what's not: 12 school bills Arizona parents should know about," March 1, 2017
- ↑ The Arizona Republic, "Arizona school-voucher expansion afoot despite $102K of misspent funds in 6 months," January 31, 2017
- ↑ The Arizona Republic, "House approves big hurdle for putting initiatives on Arizona ballot," March 1, 2017
- ↑ Arizona Republic, "All eyes on 2014 governor race," November 11, 2012
- ↑ Office of the Arizona State Treasurer, "Doug Ducey," accessed May 15, 2012