Two controversial Republican candidates in Arizona failed to win their primary elections on Tuesday.
One of them is Don Shooter, the former Arizona state representative who was expelled from his position for allegedly sexually harassing women. Despite the scandal, he ran to represent district 13 in the state Senate.
The other politician is Paul Mosley, the state representative involved in a criminal speeding scandal.
On Tuesday, Republican voters in the 13th District, which stretches from Yuma to western Maricopa County, rejected his candidacy. Instead, they opted for incumbent state Senator Sine Kerr to become their party’s nominee in the general election. This is her first race for the state’s District 12 Senate seat.
In 2018, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors appointed Kerr to replace state Sen. Steve Montenegro, who sought election to the U.S. House of Representatives to represent Arizona’s 8th Congressional District.
Shooter and Mosley’s Misconduct
Based on the results of the primary election, Kerr won with 49 percent of the total votes in the district. Brent Backus, a businessman and Endowment member of the National Rifle Association, got 30 percent percent, while Shooter obtained 21 percent.
