Kelly Townsend

KJZZ’s Friday NewsCap revisits some of the biggest stories of the week. Arizona state Sen. Kelly Townsend (R-Apache Junction) has abandoned her run for Congress, and will instead challenge fellow Republican Wendy Rogers (R-Flagstaff) for reelection. Plus, a series of election-related bills were defeated this week at the state Capitol.

Two high-profile Republican state senators appear ready to go head-to-head in the August primary election. State Sen. Kelly Townsend filed for reelection Monday night in the same district she and Sen. Wendy Rogers ended up in after new district maps were adopted. The two sitting state senators will now battle...

PHOENIX – Arizona state Sen. Kelly Townsend, on the heels of dropping her congressional bid, filed a statement of interest Monday to seek reelection in the same district as fellow Republican Sen. Wendy Rogers. Townsend and Rogers became entangled over the past week after the Senate censured Rogers over...

Thank you, Donald Trump. OK, I’ll bet you never expected me to write those four words. But the hesitation of the former president to endorse state Sen. Kelly Townsend’s run for Congress has given the state of Arizona a chance to redeem itself. ...

In what might be the closely watched legislative race of 2022, Sen. Kelly Townsend is withdrawing from her short-lived congressional campaign to challenge recently censured Sen. Wendy Rogers in the Republican primary.  Townsend on Monday filed to run for reelection to the Arizona Senate in District 7, a sprawling, rural swath that runs from southern […] The post After dropping congressional bid, Kelly Townsend will challenge Wendy Rogers appeared first on Arizona Mirror.

PHOENIX (AP) - State Sen. Kelly Townsend announced Friday she is withdrawing from the race for the Republican nomination for Arizona’s new 6th Congressional District because former President Donald Trump hasn’t endorsed her. Despite encouragement and repeated assurances, "the promised formal endorsement has still not materialized," leaving her...

PHOENIX — State Sen. Kelly Townsend is folding her congressional bid, a move that could pave the way for her to take on the recently censured Sen. Wendy Rogers in a legislative race. Townsend, an Apache Junction Republican, said she made the decision after failing to get an anticipated...

PHOENIX — State Sen. Kelly Townsend announced Monday that she's seeking a congressional seat in southern Arizona. The decision means Townsend will avoid facing fellow Republican Wendy Rogers for a legislative seat. Townsend says she won't resign while she campaigns for Congress. She will join a crowded field of...

PHOENIX -- An Apache Junction lawmaker who continues to question the outcome of the 2020 presidential race now wants to represent southeast Arizona in Congress. "Anybody who knows me know that my heart has been down in the southern part of the state anyway,'' Republican state Sen. Kelly Townsend told Capitol Media Services on Monday. "That's where I go for leisure and that's where I go to work.''

Arizona Republican Sen. Kelly Townsend from Mesa withdrew her request for Attorney General Mark Brnovich to investigate Pima County’s religious exemptions for their COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The county’s mandate does not automatically grant an exemption for employees who claim getting a vaccination would go against their sincerely held religious...

An Arizona legislator is likening state messages encouraging residents to get the COVID-19 vaccine to communism. The COVID-19 vaccine is not mandatory in Arizona. But on digital billboards situated on state highways, the state has been urging residents to get vaccinated as a way of returning to normal life. State...