For Immediate Release: May 17, 2010
PHOENIX – Republican Secretary of State Ken Bennett filed nomination petitions today qualifying him for the Aug. 24 primary election ballot.
Bennett and his campaign submitted 10,182 signatures, nearly double the 5,609 required of GOP candidates for statewide office. Bennett, a former president of the State Senate, called the impressive haul representative of his broad base of support among Arizonans of all stripes.
“I’m gratified at the support I’ve received and thankful for the help from my campaign volunteers in gathering these signatures,” Bennett said. “This is an encouraging start to what I’m sure will be a vigorous campaign.”
Tucson-born and Prescott-raised, Bennett now lives with his wife in Gilbert. He is unchallenged in the primary election. Bennett is a fiscal and social conservative with a 25-year record of public service. He has served with the Prescott City Council, State Board of Education, Arizona Charter Schools Board and state Legislature.
Bennett became Secretary of State in January 2009. He is running for a full, four-year term on a platform of ensuring election integrity, improving government transparency and efficiency and reducing red tape to spur job creation.
“The people of Arizona care about results, not rhetoric,” Bennett said. “I look forward to this campaign as an opportunity to tell the citizens what we’ve already accomplished and share our goals for the next four years.”
Ken Bennet
1) Would not allow GOP to close primary even though it is legal precedence. This forces GOP to go to court to close primary and spend $$$.
I thought Ken Bennett was a Republican.
2) Ken Bennett failed to inform meeting attendees where he described the Arizona budget that the state had NOT applied for matching fund waivers to reduce state spending but still receive federal dollars, even though he knew about it.
IMO, he misled people by entertaining the belief that the state HAD to “spend a dollar to get two” which is false.
3) What is Ken Bennett’s stance on presidential candidates needing to demonstrate evidence that they are qualified to appear on the Arizona ballot.
Jan Brewer failed to require evidence, basically defrauding Arizona voters.
What will Ken do?
I’ll bet $100 that Ken will let the certification from any national party stand as evidence even if there’s no evidence a candidate qualifies under the constitution.
Seriously, the birther argument? Wise up. Ken Bennett is one of the most conservative republicans in the state, and one of the great leaders in the senate in recent years. You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about observeve!
What birther argument?
The Constitution of the United States requires it.
Do you support the constitution?
Bennett took an oath to uphold it. So did Brewer, but she didn’t uphold it.
Ken Bennett mislead each and every person he made his budget presentation to. He should be ashamed of himself.
The Constitution says: “No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.” You are obviously a birther, and idiot!
Bennett is a busy man, he is also chairman of Global Building Systems which is being sued for securities fraud, breach of contract, and withheld wages. Some of his former employees went months without pay. Guess Bennett thinks everyone is a multi-millionaire?