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Wednesday, November 14, 2018
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Voucher battle fueled Ahwa-BLUE-kee BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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upporting expanded school vouchers for private schools apparently is becoming the proverbial third rail for Republicans in some parts of Arizona. It seemed that way last week in Ahwatukee as a mini Blue Wave upended state Rep. Jill Norgaard, sank all but one GOP school board candidate and extended so far down the ticket that it wrested even minor judicial offices away from Republican control. While thousands of ballots in the county remained to be counted at press time, a final
count is no expected to affect the stunning results of the election, which made Legislative District 18 the 11th in the state to be fully in the hands of Democrats. Unofficial results at Tuesday’s press deadline showed: • Democrats Rep Mitzi Epstein with 28.4 percent of the vote and Chandler newcomer Jennifer Jermaine with 26.8 percent to Norgaard’s 23.8 percent and Greg Patterson’s 21.3 percent. • LD 18 incumbent Sen. Sean Bowie swamped Tempe pilot Frank Schmuck by nearly 12,000 votes, giving him 56.6 percent of the vote in one of the most
expensive legislative races in Arizona.
• The GOP fared no better in the nonpar-
tisan races for two seats on each of the school boards in the two districts that include Ahwatukee. • Kyrene saw Republican Margaret Pratt of Ahwatukee lead the four-way race with 31 percent and Chandler Democrat Kevin Walsh with 27 percent, beating two other Ahwatukee candidates, Democrat David Hoye and Republican Mike Middleton. Hoye, a former teacher and journalist, received 25 percent of See
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Victory sinks in slowly for Ahwatukee’s only GOP victor BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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norm in the Pratt household. But Pratt, who led all four candidates for the board with an unofficial 31 percent of the vote, knows that she can depend on that household for the same moral support her husband Murray and their three
argaret Pratt’s youngest daughter Becky could be in for some disappointment. When she learned last Wednesday the election was over, mom recalled, Becky See PRATT on page 12 asked, “Oh great. Will mom not be on the (Kimberly Carrillo/AFN Staff Photographer) phone so much anymore?” As she no doubt will be finding out in Margaret and Murray Pratt of Ahwatukee haveOpen three daughters in the Kyrene School Houses: January – when her mom is sworn into her District. They are, from left: Rachel, Mary four-year term on the Kyrene School Dis- andFebruary Becky. Saturday, 20th at 9:00am trict Governing Board – phone calls and Wednesday, February 24th at 6:00pm lots of nights out are about to become the
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