Teri’s Bipartisan Viewpoint

Repeal blended-fuel mandates and other climate-era regulations inflating gas and logistics costs.

Attract American manufacturing through tax incentives for semiconductor, defense, and mineral processing firms.

Expand trade corridors with Texas, Florida, and Gulf Coast states to bypass West Coast bottlenecks and reduce supply-chain costs.

Plan emphasizes passing a balanced budget to maintain Arizona's competitive business environment and counter the effects of inflation.

Deploy state guard (modeled on Project Alpha framework) for border, drug, and human-trafficking interdiction.

Coordinate with Texas and Florida under Article I, Section 10 authority for interstate enforcement compacts.

Audit all welfare recipients for citizenship verification (ending self-attestation loopholes per A.A.C. R9-22-1300).

Codify and expand ESA program access following clear guidelines and auditing tools to reduce/eliminate fraud from occurring in the program while allowing fair treatment of the program to families and children who need the service.

Mandate transparent district audits; cap non-instructional spending.

Incentivize charter and classical schools emphasizing civics, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), and patriotism.

Review salaries of teachers and public administrative staff in schools to ensure fair salary profiles are being implemented with state reviews.

Funding to provide counseling services within public school settings.

Expand shelters throughout Arizona and ensure safety.

Increase resources in communities with high crime rates to improve safety.

Increase behavioral health services and crisis services in impoverished communities that have increased substance abuse issues.

Make crisis workers more available in the communities where crime is higher.

Place mental health clinics in or near shelters to provide crisis services on hand at the site.

Ensure reentry programs are safe and provide a program of integrity that is high standard to help released prisoners to reestablish in the community; programs will complete audits on program outcome.

Programs that help motivate a step forward from homelessness to transitional living homes and stability.

Have an immediate review of all excluded, suspended, and terminated providers from 05/15/2023 to current date of taking office to ensure proper, judicial, and fair processes occurred in cases.

Immediately review active AHCCCS providers who are pending payments for more than 30 days to remit payment or work with the provider to ensure remittance in a timely manner to treatment provision takes place.

Review funding for DES and ALTCS for rule adjustments and audits.

Ensure funding for DDD children and adults is supporting families and the person. Transparency with families and people regarding funding with enough time to plan if changes will happen. Create permanent programs and funding flow to protect, with guidelines to reduce/eliminate fraud happening in the system.

AHCCCS AMPM Polices to be reviewed, audited, and updated (as recommended) to ensure treatment across treatment settings is fair and sustainable for the community.

Immediate change and review of the AHCCCS assessment tool developed for DDD children and adults with a likely renewal and change to the process based on expert audit and development.

Freeze discretionary spending at AHCCCS, DES, ADE until reconciliations complete.

Enact agency integrity laws modeled on Arizona Joint Legislative Audit Committee (JLBC) audit standards.

Seek federal recovery of misused Medicaid and COVID funds.

Create a permanent Office of Inspector General for State Operations reporting directly to the legislature.

Publicly release all audits and contract data in a searchable transparency portal.

Implement auditing systems to ensure integrity is met and kept.

Pass policy to increase job growth.

Align education and work skills so each complement each other and help the worker towards career development.

Help mid-career workers retain their positions by focusing on barriers that can impede their work performance (i.e., child care, transportation, technology)

Empower rural workforce by creating jobs in rural areas and/or promoting community investment.

Build infrastructure and create resources in rural areas so technology is more accessible.

Expand interstates for corridor partnerships to ensure safe roads and safe actions.

End participation in California-style emissions compacts.

Incentivize efficiency upgrades: tax credits and/or rebates.

Promote renewable energy: Develop solar and wind infrastructure to climate and energy.

Ensure utility companies are not placing unnecessary costs onto the consumers.

Support companies that complete energy audits for free or low cost.

The American people are important and should be treated fairly and with dignity in the state of Arizona.

American people will not be discriminated against; develop a statewide anti-discrimination law that will protect all people throughout the state.

Marriage

• Is a personal choice for each person.

• Christian faith - Jesus makes it clear that choice (right and wrong) is the person’s. Marriage is a choice. Creating a response by making it man and woman only (again) will backfire and create hate. Jesus tells us not to hate but to love all people.

“No Hate” laws will be created, maintained, and enforced across the state to ensure all people are treated fairly and judicially.

Public bathrooms to have only two gender (male and female).

Public sports are to remain male and female sports unless unisex sports teams occur.

Material in schools will be eliminated that promote sexual activity between any person(s) unless a formal classroom teaching on sexuality or title of like is being taught by an educator in a formal manner.

Support local businesses through tax credits and grants that provide access to childcare and ride share.

Support transitional homes that provide work and living programs for mothers and with children.

Support reunification in families through court and DCS operations oversight.

Ensure court fidelity and judge integrity in parent-child custody cases.

Reduce workplace discrimination against families needing maternity leave including father.

Maintain the 2nd amendment right to bear arms.

Maintain gun laws in Arizona to ensure safety of the public.

Support legislation that requires background checks on private gun sales in Arizona.

Support legislation that requires state-level firearm registration requirements.

Support bills for gun safety increase statewide.

Streamlining environmental review process.

Policy support for economic security and safety.

Workforce development, equal opportunity, and growth.

Increase opportunity for workforce training.

Increase opportunity for entry level job placement and training.

Create a program for low income populations that provide skill training towards job attainment.

Pro Choice and Pro Life I believe encompass the Christian faith. Here is how:

• Jesus gave people the ability to make their own choices regardless if sin or not.

• Jesus wants us to choose life.

Pro Choice represents life in the womb is to be protected and not a light decision made by a mother; that other options are available. It does not represent, to me, the choice of abortion should be removed from the mother.

• Regarding Christian belief and pro-choice: Jesus gave people the advantage of free will. To choose right and wrong. His expectation is the choice is life. Yet, He still provides the choice to the person. Being Pro Choice or Pro Life does encompass Jesus. Yet, in the Christian faith choices need to align with His view of life.

I do not believe eradicating abortion is safe as this can create unsafe situations for our society as a whole, and the mother (much research aligns with this); yet allowing abortion up to 24 weeks is allowing the removal of a fetus that 60-70% of the time can survive the birth (https://healthcare.utah.edu/womens-health/pregnancy-birth/preterm-birth/when-is-it-safe-to-deliver).

Abortion should be a medical recommendation and more focus on educating the public, easier access to contraception, and adoption easier to navigate need to be the focus to reduce abortions. This aligns with research that states 67% of women who had an abortion later “attributed more negative mental health outcomes to their abortions” (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10257365/)

I believe that medical necessity is at times needed and warranted and by taking this away from public policy we can harm the mother.

Medical necessity to abortion needs improvement in definition to ensure medical professionals and people understand the law and the rules.

Abortion needs to remain a non-federal monies used choice, however.

When not medically necessary, the choice of the mother to abort should be without federal tax payor dollars. This should be maintained as an elective procedure.

Collaboration with leadership and representatives throughout the state and country will be sustained.

A united front will be carried across the state and country with a focus on the issues not the “politics” of the issue.

The people of Arizona will be considered the most important focal point of leadership development and decision making.

Teams will be treated fairly and equally.

Implement Zero-Based Budgeting across agencies.

Launch a Governor’s Integrity Task Force to oversee AHCCCS, DES, and ADE financial controls.

Enforce performance-based budgeting; eliminate DEI mandates and redundant environmental grants.

Training to agencies regarding policy updates.

To ensure individuals and organizations are held accountable for their actions.

Making no ties with stake holders in ways the promotes or changes the decision making model in the political event(s) and policies.

Deter behavior from continuing to occur by ensuring laws and statutes are in place to keep individuals law abiding.

Hold any and all people accountable for their choices regardless of the person or entity.