Matt Salmon returns to gubernatorial arena, launches 2022 campaign
Styrofoam in a coffee shop ready for take-out. Matt Salmon in his gubernatorial campaign announcement video. Screenshot via YouTube
"Former Republican Congressman Matt Salmon is running for governor, looking to win the prize that eluded him 20 years ago in one of Arizona’s closest gubernatorial elections.
Salmon launched his gubernatorial campaign Wednesday morning, running on the platform of border security, immigration enforcement, election integrity, expanding school and eliminating Arizona’s income tax.
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“Today, the Arizona values we cherish are under attack from Washington and liberals here at home. Open borders and closed classrooms, crushing tax hikes and socialism, censorship and cancel culture. The radical Democrats are pushing the most far-left agenda in our lifetime,” Salmon said in a press statement. “We can’t allow liberal politicians to turn Arizona into California. We must protect the values that have made Arizona a beacon of opportunity.”
. . .“Here’s where I stand. I’m 100% pro-life. I was A-rated by the NRA. And I believe in strong borders and an Arizona first agenda,” Salmon said in an announcement video.
HISTORY: In 2002, Salmon was the GOP nominee for governor, falling short to Democrat Janet Napolitano by less than 12,000 votes, or about 1 percentage point. Salmon was elected to his old House seat in 2012 and helped found the conservative House Freedom Caucus, serving two more terms before retiring from Congress for the second time. In between his two stints in the House, Salmon worked as a lobbyist and spent two years as chairman of the Arizona Republican Party.
After leaving office following the 2016 election, Salmon took a position as vice president for Government Affairs for Arizona State University, where he oversaw the university’s lobbying team. Salmon resigned his position in conjunction with his campaign announcement. . .
Salmon may have stiff competition in the primary, which already includes several contenders for the GOP nomination. Former Fox 10 anchor Kari Lake, developer and regent Karrin Taylor Robson and state Treasurer Kimberly Yee have all announced their candidacy.
On the Democratic side, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and Marco Lopez, the former mayor of Nogales and director of the Arizona Department of Commerce, are running.
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More stunning news in streams of reports over the recent resignation of Rick Romley where something appears to be really rotten. Something 'fishy' about all this?
Hacienda Healthcare is becoming more than 'a household name' now after streams of more stories jump out in local and national media where more fallouts follow sensational revelations about an incapacitated woman who was raped at the Intermediate Care Facility, a 24-bed, 20,900-square-foot hospital, at Country Club and Baseline Road here in Mesa, and later gave birth to a baby boy.Right from the start, details were scant and slow to get revealed - that's suspicious. More so when Nancy Salmon, the VP of Corporate Communications for Hacienda HealthCare, in an email obtained by KJZZ, is quoted as saying: " . . .there must be more to the story than I have previously known. That alone makes me very uncomfortable continuing to work here.”
Is that a plausible denial? Hard to deny that when other board members, staff and a former County Attorney jump-off a sinking ship!
Here's Nancy Salmon's Press Release about
Hacienda HealthCare is Arizona’s leading provider of specialized services for medically fragile and chronically ill infants, children, and young adults, including those with developmental and intellectual disabilities, Nancy explains
Yet, she adds, “I have realized that there are very few individuals in our community that know of the fabulous resources of this nonprofit organization.
My goal is to make Hacienda HealthCare a household name.”
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