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Six years ago - it's another one of those East Valley Tribune's could be qualifier stories where Karrin Taylor Robeson is "keeping her options" open. She's now looking for investments in a race for governor to pay her back
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But it’s really a story about how good it is for Mesa that a Mesa girl did good. . https://mesazona.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-grid-runs-into-road-block-no.htmlwas born and reared in Mesa. She graduated from Mountain View High School and received her law degree from Arizona State University. Her eyes lit up as she talked about growing up in Mesa where her father, veteran lawmaker and former Arizona Senate President Carl Kunasek, owned three drug stores*Karrin Kunasek Taylor was born and reared in Mesa. She graduated from Mountain View High School . . .
_______________________________________________________________"For more than 20 years, Karrin Taylor Robson has been one of the most sought-after strategists on major real estate development in the West. Trained as an attorney specializing in land use, development and zoning, she spent more than 12 years as the Executive Vice President of DMB Associates, Inc., a Scottsdale based master-planned community developer where she was responsible for ongoing land use entitlement matters and other value-enhancing efforts for its communities and businesses. She has successfully obtained approval of municipal finance incentives and tools that provide well over $500 million of value to her clients. Cumulatively, she has entitled more than 20,000 acres including more than 35,000 homes and over 25 million square feet of commercial uses.
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Former developer Karrin Taylor Robson mulling bid for 2022 guv’s race
"Karrin Taylor Robson, a developer and prominent Republican donor, might run for governor in 2022.
Robson told the Arizona Mirror that she’s had a lot of people urge her run. She said she wouldn’t go as far as to say she’s considering it, but conceded that she hasn’t ruled it out.
“I’d like to keep all my options open as I wind my way through life,” she said.
1 Robson is a member of the Arizona Board of Regents
2 Robson is the founder and president of Arizona Strategies, a land-use strategy company based in Phoenix.
3 She was previously the executive vice president for development company DMB Associates
4. She was a land-use, zoning and development attorney with the law firm Biskind, Hunt & Taylor.
5 After leaving DMB in early 2016, she formed a consulting company
6 Robson served as DMB’s lobbyist at the state Capitol until May 2019.
7 Robson is a member of the Kunasek family, a Republican political family with deep roots in Arizona.
8 Her father, Carl Kunasek, was president of the Arizona Senate and a member of the Corporation Commission.
9 And her brother, Andrew Kunasek, was a member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.
10 She is married to developer Ed Robson, the founder and president of Robson Communities.
“I do have a long history. My family’s been active in the political sphere since before I was born, and I love this state,” Robson said. “Over the course of life, you try and find the best place to give back to your community and move your community forward. That’s what I have always done in my personal and professional life, and I see no reason to deviate from that course.”
Though she hasn’t made any decisions, Robson indicated that, if she runs, she won’t rely on her own money to fund her campaign, at least not exclusively.
She said anyone who runs for office should be able to generate enough support that people are willing to invest in their candidacy.
“You don’t want to just go in there and do it on your own. You want to have people who are impacted by your decisions have investment in you,” she said.
Gov. Doug Ducey was re-elected to his second term in November, and will be termed out in 2022. Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich and Treasurer Kimberly Yee are viewed by many as contenders for the Republican nomination as well.
This isn’t the first time Robson’s name has been floated for public office. She was on the list of candidates being considered for appointment by Ducey to replace U.S. Sen. John McCain.
