Katie Hobbs lectures Arizona about racism. Her record tells a different story.
As Senate minority leader, she helped fire Talonya Adams — a Black policy adviser who asked why she was paid less than her white male colleagues. Two federal juries found race and sex discrimination. Hobbs later filmed a campaign apology. Adams rejected it as a political stunt — and on Dec. 9, 2021, said: “Is Katie Hobbs a racist as defined by the Oxford dictionary? Yes, she is. Is she worthy of sitting in any role of government? No, she is not.”
Then came the race theater: Hobbs staged a CROWN Act hair-discrimination signing with invited advocacy groups — and Rachel Dolezal, the country’s most famous fake Black woman, walked in with the guests. Hobbs’ team cropped her out of the official photo. The optics stayed.
In the 2022 Democratic primary, Hobbs refused to share a stage with Latino former Nogales Mayor Marco Lopez. No debate. No answers. Just “Dónde está Katie?”
As governor she vetoed SB 1305 — the bill that would have banned teaching kids they are racist by skin color — and later vetoed SB 1694 to keep DEI race ideology flowing through state colleges. She doesn’t fight racism. She protects the curriculum that teaches it.
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