{"id":1684585,"date":"2022-10-12T07:08:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T11:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1684585"},"modified":"2022-10-12T07:10:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T11:10:44","slug":"katie-hobbs-has-no-interest-in-the-responsibilities-of-a-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/katie-hobbs-has-no-interest-in-the-responsibilities-of-a-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Hobbs Has No Interest In The Responsibilities Of A Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkatie-hobbs-has-no-interest-in-the-responsibilities-of-a-governor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1684585&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Arizona Secretary of State and Democrat gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs has no interest in being governor. She might want the title, the prestige, and the benefits, but she has no enthusiasm for doing the job, and she said so explicitly.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the investigative group Project Veritas published its latest expos\u00e9, which revealed why Hobbs has refused a debate with her Republican opponent, former local news anchor Kari Lake. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to talk politics with anyone who I don\u2019t know,\u201d Hobbs said on footage captured on hidden camera.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"Isy2tRCJjEoYVnpcHhFZB9XMl30WN56UQe8TaqgkxGzvrdiSufwAPm1\"><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Refusal to engage with your political opponents as an elected official with power is bad enough, but what\u2019s worse is that Hobbs made the comment while describing a conversation she had with an Uber driver who inquired about her work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, \u2018uh, I work for a campaign,&#8217;\u201d Hobbs said. \u201cI don\u2019t know why I said that \u2014 I just didn\u2019t want to have this conversation. And he\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, Kari Lake?\u2019 And I was like, \u2018F-ck no!\u2019 I don\u2019t want to talk to you. I don\u2019t want to talk politics to anyone who I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It makes sense why someone might not want to engage with strangers about politics, but not when you\u2019re already a statewide elected official now seeking the top job in all of Arizona. It especially doesn\u2019t apply to engaging your opponent about your political differences on a debate stage.<\/p>\n<p>In her refusal to debate Lake, Hobbs is denying Arizona voters the democratic opportunity to see their two gubernatorial candidates side-by-side in an open forum because she \u201cdoesn\u2019t want to talk politics to anyone who I don\u2019t know.\u201d Apparently, no one told Hobbs that it\u2019s part of being governor. But the comment reveals something more disturbing about the Democrat\u2019s own candidacy: Hobbs has no curiosity <em>why<\/em> her constituents might like her Republican challenger. <\/p>\n<p>A genuine public servant might have probed a bit deeper into the Uber driver\u2019s own values and priorities rather than shut down the conversation. Hobbs, however, took the elitist route with an \u201cI don\u2019t want to talk to you\u201d attitude while being chauffeured from point A to B. Never mind that it\u2019s the governor\u2019s job to listen to constituents, at least among politicians who are serious about public service. <\/p>\n<p>On Hobbs\u2019 decision not to participate in a formal debate, footage from Project Veritas revealed campaign staffers arguing that such an event was not worth the political risk. Field organizer Jasper Adams professed, \u201cWe have a lot of concerns about Katie\u2019s campaign,\u201d with her refusal to debate chief among them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly Democratic voters care. So, they\u2019re not going to lose any votes because Democrats are going to vote for her anyway, which is \u2014 which maybe is true,\u201d Adams is caught saying on camera. \u201cBut as a politician, you never want to say, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m taking these votes for granted.\u2019 \u2026 I do wonder how much \u2014 like whether people actually care about this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/13\/democrats-in-key-battlegrounds-are-refusing-to-debate-republican-opponents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrats In Key Battlegrounds Are Refusing To Debate Republican Opponents<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Campaign staff apparently don\u2019t want the public to know about Hobbs\u2019 animosity toward guns either. When one Project Veritas reporter asked head political consultant Joe Wolf whether the potential governor would \u201csupport something like an assault weapons ban,\u201d Wolf said it\u2019s an issue better left untouched until her inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis state unfortunately is crazy in love with their guns,\u201d Wolf said. \u201cSo we\u2019re not going to take the beating for it before she can do anything about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Secretary of State and Democrat gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs has no interest in being governor. 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