Governor-Elect Ducey will have a Republican Legislature to Work with

SPECIAL BULLETINRepublicans will maintain control of the Arizona Legislature. Republicans are on their way to victory in 16 state Senate races, the party of CONTROL* has won 13 seats. The only issue in doubt is in District 6.Former lawmakers Sylvia Allen (Republican) and Thomas O'Halleran (Independent) are locked in a very close race. With just over half the precincts reporting, O'Halleran leads by about 600 votes. Allen got into the race very late when the conservative incumbent, Chester Crandall, died in a horseback riding accident near Heber just days before the August primary. The late Crandall won unopposed, but Allen was able to replace him on the GOP ticket.If Allen wins the seat, the GOP will have a 17-13 Senate majority. If O'Halleran wins the seat, the GOP will hold 16 seats, the party of CONTROL 13 and there would be one Independent seat.Republicans are claiming 37 Arizona House of Representative seats, CONTROL 23 seats.So Governor-elect Ducey will have a Republican majority to work with for the first two years of his first term.STATEWIDE RACESDoug Ducey appears on his way to becoming Arizona's next governor. Fellow Republicans are leading Democrats in all of the other statewide office elections with 1,103 of 1,566 precincts reporting in these state office contests.Ducey, former state treasurer, leads Comrade Fred DuVal of the party of CONTROL 53-41 percent. The good news is that Arizona will avoid the record spending binges and budget deficits that DuVal would have accrued had he been elected. It would have been a repeat of the Napolitano years when the former governor spent money far faster that the state could generate revenues. But under Governor Ducey, fiscal sanity is a certainty.We also believe -- and certainly hope -- Ducey's administration will be friendly to life, liberty and family. He gave every intention to the Center for Arizona Policy that this would be the case, and we urge him to hold true.In the race for attorney general, GOP Mark Brnovich has a lead of 66,000 votes over CONTROL candidate Felicia Rotellini, 53.4 percent to 46.6 percent.Secretary of state race is a little closer. Liberal Republican Michele Reagan has 52 percent of the vote, surprising frequent CONTROL candidate and former attorney general, Terry Goddard, 48 percent.Closer still is the race between Republican Diane Douglas and CONTROL's David Garcia. Douglas leads by about 1,500 votes, with 50.87 percent of the vote to Garcia's 49.08. Douglas wants to get rid of the Big Socialism education curriculum, Common Core. Garcia would be a disaster for Arizona's children.Jeff DeWit, another Republican, is running unopposed for state treasurer.The party of CONTROL refused to allow its members to select candidates for governor or attorney general. No one other than Comrade DuVal, who wants to move Arizona forward communist style, or Rottelini, were allowed to compete for those nominations in the August primary election.CONGRESSIONAL RACESConservative Congressmen Matt Salmon, Trent Franks, Paul Gosar and David Schweikert are all sailing to victory.Salmon said: "Tonight's election results make one thing exceedingly clear: Arizonans want their elected officials to get government out of the way and support policies that will let the private sector thrive and create jobs."CONTROL incumbents Kyrsten Sinema, Ron Barber, and Raul Grijalva are all on their way to re-election as well.Ann Kirkpatrick, another CONTROL incumbent, is pulling away from Andy Tobin in a congressional race, and now leads by 5 percentage points with 177 of 327 precincts in.Ruben Gallego (CONTROL) has sewn up election in the congressional seat held for many years by the retired Ed Pastor.The top vote-getters, in order, for Arizona Corporation Commission are Republicans Doug Little and Tom Forese and then CONTROL's Sandra Kennedy a distant third.JudgesAmong judges up for retention, Scott Bales is winning handily. He was appointed by former Gov. Janet Napolitano (CONTROL).PropsProp 122, which will stem out of control federal government interference with Arizona, is barely ahead, by just one percent.The Right to Try prop, 303, is winning big.And as it has done numerous times, the attempt to raise state legislator pay (Prop 304) is losing bigtime.In Phoenix, the unfunded/pension spiking madness is likely to continue. Prop 487 is up 55 to 45 percent.CONCLUSIONAll in all, it's a good night for America and Arizona (on the 11th anniversary of The Arizona Conservative, No. 1 cultural commentator in the state). Though politics is downstream from culture, tonight's results are a good sign that people have had enough of Big Government Socialism, the Obama Administration, and the do-nothing U.S. Senate under Harry Reid's abdication of responsibility and leadership. This is also a great day for the sanctity of life, for families, and especially for free speech and religious liberty.We remember the wisdom of President Reagan, one of the five truly great presidents in this nation, who said during his first inaugural address:

“We are a nation that has a government—not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the Earth. Our government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government, which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed.”

Thank you for coming here to consult our election recommendations and coverage.May God bless America.* The reason we refer to Democrats as the party of CONTROL is because their radical philosophy is to try to control every aspect of your lives -- to your detriment.