Over a couple hundred people attended a rally Thursday evening in the West Valley for Senate President Warren Petersen (R-Mesa), who is running for attorney general against Kris Mayes. The event, which was held at TYR Tactical, featured numerous prominent politicians, showing that Republicans are coalescing around Petersen early on.
Jason Beck, mayor of Peoria and founder and owner of TYR Tactical, opened the event telling the crowd that his company makes all the vests for ICE, prompting loud cheering. Beck said he started the company 26 years ago and grew it to a size where he can use it to “reach out to conservatives” and “host people.”
Mike Broomhead, a radio talk show host on KTAR, emceed the event with his usual humor. He instructed the speakers, “Be brilliant, be brief, be gone.”
Maricopa County Superintendent of Schools Shelli Boggs introduced a group of “Women for Warren,” including an Hispanic woman who had just received her citizenship.
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