For Star subscribers: Nearly 31,000 signatures would be needed to force recall election against Wadsack, a first-term Republican.
Howard Fischer PHOENIX — A Tucson political activist has launched a drive to recall Republican state Sen. Justine Wadsack.
Wadsack also sought to amend the Arizona Constitution to repeal the power of cities to establish their own charters, part of a move to strip Tucson of its ability to keep its system of nominating city council members by ward but electing them at large. Baker needs at least 30,981 valid signatures of registered voters within the Tucson district by Sept. 5. That's equivalent to 25% of voters who turned out in the last election.LD 17, which runs from southern Pinal County through the northern and eastern edges of Tucson, is strongly Republican. Still, Wadsack defeated Democrat Mike Nickerson by only about 3,000 votes out of nearly 124,000 ballots cast in November.
Baker protested at high court Baker, a retired public school teacher, said she is a member of the Arizona and Sunnyside education associations. She said her political involvements range from the Red for Ed Movement to raise teacher pay, to efforts to protect reproductive rights of women, to a move to defeat U.S. Sen. Kysten Sinema, an Arizona Democrat-turned independent, in the 2024 election.
Election potentialEven if a recall election is called, the earliest it could be held is March 2024, or possibly as late as May.
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