With session beginning Monday, Republican legislative leaders say it won't prevent them from sending the bills to the Democratic governor's desk.
Howard Fischer PHOENIX — The 2023 legislative session gets started Monday, Jan. 9, with perhaps the worst-kept political secret: Republican lawmakers are going to send bills to Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs even knowing ahead of time she will veto them.
"We want to try to work with the governor,'' said incoming Senate President Warren Petersen. And the Gilbert Republican said he had set a record several years ago as the lawmaker who got the highest percentage of his bills signed by the governor."How you have a high percentage of bills passed is you look at the landscape, you look at the legislators, you look at the chairs ,'' he said. And that calculus, Petersen said, includes the governor.
Now that situation has changed. But Petersen said that won't affect the decision whether to transmit bills to the governor."I wouldn't imagine there would be a million of those or a huge block of those,'' Petersen continued."But those may be important to advance your cause.''"I guess I'm stating the obvious at some point here,'' he said.
The confession of sorts came as no surprise to Murphy Hebert who is in charge of communications for the new governor.
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