Melvin explores governor’s race

Republican state Sen. Al Melvin,  who represents District 11, announced Monday is he is forming a committee to explore a campaign for governor of Arizona.

“We have been blessed with some hard-working reform-minded legislatures during my time here, but we have failed to make the kind of progress that Arizona deserve because too many elected officials are content to think small and act small,” said the third-term senator.

“Arizona is capable of real greatness if we elect leaders who are willing to be bold, even if it comes with political risk or at a political cost. We
need to offer real reform, real proposals to create growth on a massive scale, an impassioned defense of our state’s rights in the face of an
ever-encroaching federal government, and education reform that finally and firmly shifts the power away from bureaucracies and into the hands of parents where it belongs,” he said.