Lefty Appeal - {AZ 2nd Congressional District}
The presumed frontrunners in the crowded Congressional District 2 race did not fare well with the left-leaning crowd at a forum last week.
Ann Kirkpatrick—who mostly recently represented the neighboring Congressional District 1 and who has, until her decision to seek the CD2 seat, called Flagstaff and Phoenix home—was outright booed for some of her moderate positions. And only 7 percent of those who filled out a post-debate survey said that Matt Heinz, the physician who lost the CD2 race by a wide margin two years ago, was their choice in the upcoming Aug. 28 primary.
Admittedly, the crowd at the forum presented by Represent Me AZ, is not a representative sample of the Democratic voters who will go to the polls next month. But they clearly favored two of the underdogs who were among the six candidates on the stage: political newcomer Billy Kovacs and former state lawmaker Bruce Wheeler.
Kovacs, a 31-year-old entrepreneur who has been involved the restaurant and hospitality sector, received the most exuberant cheers. The crowd applauded Kovacs' comments on environmental issues such as climate change and opposing the Rosemont Mine. Kovacs took his mining opposition a step further and said that Arizona should get rid of mining all together and instead put money into precious metal recycling centers, which he says would be less costly and more sustainable.
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