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(where Democrats know the Mo, Tom, and Mark Udall side of the family but she is married to Jesse A. Udall - one of the grandsons with the same name I believe, on the GOP side)
A Different Kind of Udall
Stephen Lemons September 26, 2019
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She called herself a fierce proponent of school choice, but she pointed out that there was a plethora of options for parents in Arizona, from charter schools to homeschooling to traditional public schools. “If school choice was the panacea of education, we would have the top education system in the country,” she said. “We don’t need more choices, we need better choices. And in order to do that, we’ve got to improve the schools that we have.”
Udall was one of just four Republicans who joined their Democratic colleagues to try to block the bill. Nevertheless, the bill passed the House 31-28, with one abstention, and since it had already passed the Senate, on it went for Ducey’s signature to become law. Udall’s stance would get her labeled a “RINO,” a Republican in Name Only,” by the far-right ideologues in her party. But her opposition to the voucher expansion proved prescient.
That’s because Ducey’s gambit boomeranged, sparking a grassroots movement by teachers and parents called Save Our Schools, which put a referendum on the ballot in 2018, Proposition 305, asking voters to jettison the voucher plan. And did they ever. The electorate repealed the law 65 to 35 percent, handing Ducey one of his biggest defeats to date. Fast-forward a year, and Udall is now chair of the House Education Committee, an intriguing and unlikely star in a Legislature where moderates increasingly hold sway as the Republican majority dwindles and the state turns deeper shades of purple.
But lest you misread her last name and think her an heir to the famous Democrats from that family, think again. Her last name was acquired by marriage to a side of the Udall clan that’s as Republican as Mitt Romney, and she remains a devout and socially conservative follower of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
https://www.phoenixmag.com/2019/09/26/a-different-kind-of-udall/
Stephen Lemons September 26, 2019
(snip)
She called herself a fierce proponent of school choice, but she pointed out that there was a plethora of options for parents in Arizona, from charter schools to homeschooling to traditional public schools. “If school choice was the panacea of education, we would have the top education system in the country,” she said. “We don’t need more choices, we need better choices. And in order to do that, we’ve got to improve the schools that we have.”
Udall was one of just four Republicans who joined their Democratic colleagues to try to block the bill. Nevertheless, the bill passed the House 31-28, with one abstention, and since it had already passed the Senate, on it went for Ducey’s signature to become law. Udall’s stance would get her labeled a “RINO,” a Republican in Name Only,” by the far-right ideologues in her party. But her opposition to the voucher expansion proved prescient.
That’s because Ducey’s gambit boomeranged, sparking a grassroots movement by teachers and parents called Save Our Schools, which put a referendum on the ballot in 2018, Proposition 305, asking voters to jettison the voucher plan. And did they ever. The electorate repealed the law 65 to 35 percent, handing Ducey one of his biggest defeats to date. Fast-forward a year, and Udall is now chair of the House Education Committee, an intriguing and unlikely star in a Legislature where moderates increasingly hold sway as the Republican majority dwindles and the state turns deeper shades of purple.
But lest you misread her last name and think her an heir to the famous Democrats from that family, think again. Her last name was acquired by marriage to a side of the Udall clan that’s as Republican as Mitt Romney, and she remains a devout and socially conservative follower of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
https://www.phoenixmag.com/2019/09/26/a-different-kind-of-udall/
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