Mary Gaudio

AZ Native 🌵 Former Candidate for Scottsdale USD Governing Board 2022 📚

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

I’ll never forgive glitch Mitch McConnell for stealing Obama’s SCOTUS pick, claiming 8 months before the election was too close - then stealing Biden’s SCOTUS pick, claiming 8 days before the election wasn’t. He’s responsible for this shitshow.

[Mary Gaudio @MKellyGaudio]

@KelliButlerAZ @AmericansFair Oh, what a tangled web he weaves! @MatthewGress

[Kelli Butler @KelliButlerAZ]

Rep/Lobbyist Matt Gress: "my employer was not involved in #HCR2040 and my outside employment has no role in Arizona policy matters." But here's a blog post by his employer @AmericansFair celebrating after Matt used his Ed Cmte Chair position to pass his employer's policy priority

[Elenee Dao @Elenee_Dao]

More than 421,400 signatures for the Protect Education Act are being dropped off at the @AZSecretary.

This is the initiative by @ArizonaEA & @arizona_sos to put in more guardrails & reform for the Empowerment Scholarship Accounts prgm. They needed a min. of 256k sigs. @abc15

[Kelli Butler @KelliButlerAZ]

These 3 photos are on the homepage of Rep/Paid Lobbyist Matt Gress’ employer, @AmericansFair

First responders & supporters of @AZPoliceAssc @AZFirefighters @AZTroopers take note

Matt & his AFFT pals try to pretend they’re only targeting teachers, but they’re coming for you too

[Kelli Butler @KelliButlerAZ]

Corey & Matt Gress are both employed by the same nat’l anti-union org. They’re pushing this arbitrary 60% big gov’t mandate on district schools because they know it sounds good, but is very complicated & nearly impossible. They really just want to destroy unions & public schools.

[Kelli Butler @KelliButlerAZ]

Does @AZTroopers Assoc know Rep. Matt Gress is also a paid anti-union lobbyist with @AmericansFair?

Gress runs bills that mirror his nat’l employers’ priorities to dismantle all public-sector unions. DPS officers need to know Gress’ bills harm them & other 1st responders in AZ.

[AZ LD4 Democrats @AZLD4Dems]

The Arizona 2026 Primary Election is July 21.
📬 Ballots are arriving, and early voting is underway!
Don’t forget—you get 1 vote for State Senate and 2 votes for State Representative.
☑️ Karen Gresham
☑️ Tammy Caputi
☑️ Aaron Lieberman

[Kelli Butler @KelliButlerAZ]

@PamKirby @AZHouseGOP @AZSenateGOP Just wait until you find out LD4 Rep Matt Gress IS a paid lobbyist. He’s a registered lobbyist in 4 others states, and he runs his employers same policy priorities in AZ. He gets paid with your tax dollars AND by his dark money org. Pretty shady, right?
https://t.co/cPGBTp4OJV

[Mary Gaudio @MKellyGaudio]

@RandyKeating Thank you! Our Republican-controlled Legislature is focused on manufacturing problems to “fix” vs. solving the very real problems that do exist here in AZ. Vote them out!

[Randy Keating @RandyKeating]

Today I filed a lawsuit against the state of Arizona, here is why.

Arizona's mail voting system is not a partisan invention. It was created by Republicans in 1991, and for 35 years, voters of every political stripe have relied on it. Today, roughly 80 percent of Arizonans vote by mail, including seniors who are no longer driving, rural voters hours from the nearest polling place, people with disabilities, naturalized citizens, and working families who cannot afford to lose a day's wages standing in line. This system works, which is why I am a proud supporter of Protect the Vote Arizona’s efforts to enshrine our fundamental right to vote in the state’s constitution. There is no crisis here.

But HCR 2001 threatens to unravel all of that. Its voter ID provision demands that every mail voter present "valid government-issued proof of identity" concurrent with casting a ballot, yet provides no mechanism, no process, and no procedure for how a mail voter could possibly comply. That vagueness is not an oversight. It is a blueprint for chaos, one that hands future legislatures the power to define compliance however they choose, under the deliberately lowered "rational basis" constitutional standard that this same measure would write into Arizona's Constitution. Once that provision is in place, courts would be stripped of the authority to strike down even the most restrictive interpretation.

That brings me to the most sobering part of this. I am not sure what is more dangerous, the unintended consequences of HCR 2001, or the very real intended ones. Because when you remove the constitutional guardrails that protect voting rights, when you hand future legislators a vague mandate and a weakened judiciary, and when you package all of it in a measure that voters cannot even untangle and vote on separately, you are not building a more secure election system. You are manufacturing doubt. You are engineering confusion. And you are doing it on the backs of the very voters, think seniors, rural communities, people with disabilities, naturalized citizens, who have the least power to fight back. Not today, not without a fight.

Arizona's elections are free, fair, and accurate. HCR 2001 is not about fixing what is broken. It is about breaking what works with the most nefarious of intentions.

[Kelli Butler @KelliButlerAZ]

Hard to keep track of all the backroom deals at #azleg. The AZ GOP started this fiasco by passing poorly written, ill-conceived referrals in the first place.

AZ GOP’s long-term plan is ALWAYS to expand ESA’s w/no accountability. Don’t fall for the AZ GOP’s latest schemes!

[Mary Gaudio @MKellyGaudio]

@KTAR923 @SteveBrownMD These three clearly don’t care if Arizonans are struggling. They don’t even pretend to care. And don’t forget…they all voted to make life less affordable, taking away healthcare subsidies, cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and more.

[KTAR News 92.3 @KTAR923]

Three Arizona Republicans, including two who want to be the state’s next governor, voted against a bipartisan congressional bill that aims to reduce housing costs.
https://t.co/0f5w0Xabol

[Kelli Butler @KelliButlerAZ]

This AZ GOP Rep. is okay w/his fellow State Rep, Lobbyist @MatthewGress getting untraceable, dark money for his employer’s mission to destroy our public-sector unions. While Arizona first responders worry about their JOBS, you just keep on worrying about China, Rep Gillette 😂🤡

[Mary Gaudio @MKellyGaudio]

Mama always said nothing good happens after midnight. She was right. Flipping control of the AZ Legislature is 60 years overdue! This, 5 years ago👇.

[Kathy Hoffman @Supt_Hoffman]

My statement on @AZSenateGOP and Governor @dougducey's budget.

[Mary Gaudio @MKellyGaudio]

@CBSNews Drain the swamp!

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Host: Over 50 people have died in ICE custody. There are thousands of children being held in places like Dilley Detention Center. I would urge you as a Christian and as a father to visit those detention centers and make sure that the conditions are up to the values that we hold in this country.

Vance: You guys have thrown a lot at me and I see we've got 30 seconds left here...

Host: You are the vice president. You can go long

[Craig Harris @CraigHarrisNews]

The answer is no. This referral was heard Friday night with little to no public comment — except for 3 major ESA supporters. Its intent is to stop the ESA reform initiative being pushed by teachers.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

New documents obtained by The Washington Post show the price to build the ballroom has ballooned to $600 million, up from the initial $200 million estimate, with more than half expected to be paid by U.S. taxpayers. https://t.co/5gHW6YI9vm