John McGee is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Idaho Senate,representing the 10th district from 2004 to 2012. He also served as the majority caucus chairman. He resigned in February 2012 following an accusation of sexual harassment.
James Robert Duggar is an American politician and television personality. He appeared on the reality series 19 Kids and Counting, which aired from 2008 to 2015. From 1999 to 2003,he was a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives.
The Arizona State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arizona Legislature,the state legislature of the U.S. state of Arizona. The upper house is the Senate. The House convenes in the legislative chambers at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix. Its members are elected to two-year terms,with a term limit of four consecutive terms. Each of the state's 30 legislative districts elects two state house representatives and one state senator,with each district having a population of at least 203,000.
Mark Goudeau is an American serial killer,kidnapper,thief and rapist. Goudeau terrorized victims in the Phoenix metro area between August 2005 and June 2006;coincidentally,Goudeau was active at the same time as two other Phoenix serial killers,jointly known as the "Serial Shooters.”
Robert Meza is an American politician from Phoenix,Arizona who served as a member of the Arizona House of Representatives from District 30 from 2019 to 2023. He previously served in the Arizona State Senate from 2011 to 2019,and also served four prior terms in the Arizona House of Representatives from 2003 to 2011.
Joshua James Duggar is an American convicted sex offender and former reality television personality. The eldest of Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar's nineteen children,Duggar and his family gained fame as the focus of the TLC series 19 Kids and Counting,spun off from a series of television specials. Duggar served as the executive director of FRC Action,a lobbying political action committee sponsored by the Family Research Council,from June 2013 to May 2015. He resigned from the position after he was reported to have molested multiple underage girls,including four of his siblings,when he was aged between 12 and 16.
Steve Montenegro is a Salvadoran-American Republican politician from Litchfield Park,Arizona who is a member of the Arizona House of Representatives,elected in 2022. He is a former member of the Arizona Senate. He was previously a member of the Arizona House of Representatives,from 2009 to 2017,where he was Speaker Pro Tempore.
Sonny Borrelli is an American politician and a Republican member of the Arizona Senate,representing the 30th district. He is the Senate Majority Leader. Borrelli formerly served in the Arizona House of Representatives as a representative of District 5,from January 14,2013,to January 9,2017.
John Kavanagh is an American politician who has served in both houses of the Arizona State Legislature since 2007. He is currently representing the 3rd legislative district in the Arizona Senate since 2023.
Lee Roberson Chatfield is an American former politician and a Republican former member of the Michigan House of Representatives. He was first elected from the 107th House district in 2015. He was speaker pro tempore from 2017 to 2019,and speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021. In April 2024 he was charged with thirteen felony counts of embezzlement,larceny and conspiracy involving spending private foundation and state money for personal use while he was Speaker of the Michigan House.
Charlene Fernandez is an American politician who was the Democratic leader of the Arizona House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021. She was first elected to the state House in 2014 and represents Southwestern Arizona,specifically,the majority of Yuma County,western Pima County,southwestern Maricopa County and southwestern Pinal County. She resigned on November 15,2021 to take a position at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Her son Brian Fernandez was appointed by the Yuma County,Arizona Board of Supervisors to succeed her in the Arizona House of Representatives.
Anthony Kern is an American politician and a Republican member of the Arizona Senate,representing District 27 since 2023. He previously represented District 20 in the State House of Representatives from January 5,2015,to January 11,2021.
Cesar Chavez is a Mexican-American singer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party,he served in the Arizona House of Representatives,representing Arizona's 29th legislative district,from 2017 to 2023. Prior to entering politics,Chavez travelled internationally as a Mariachi vocalist.
Athena Salman is an American politician and activist who served as a member of the Arizona House of Representatives from the 26th and 8th districts from 2017 to 2024. She resigned from the legislature effective January 1,2024.
David Stringer is an American attorney,businessman,and Republican politician who was elected in 2016 to represent district 1 in the Arizona House of Representatives. After being reelected in 2018,he resigned in March 2019 after refusing to cooperate with an ethics investigation into 1983 charges against him for sexually molesting two boys. A member of the Republican Party,Stringer has been co-chair of the GOP finance committee for Yavapai County,in addition to a Republican precinct committeeman and state committeeman.
The 2018–19 Phoenix mayoral special election was held on November 6,2018,to elect the new Mayor of Phoenix,Arizona. The election was officially nonpartisan;candidates ran on the same ballot. In the initial round of the election,since no candidate reached 50 percent plus one vote,a runoff election was held on March 12,2019,between the top two finishers.
The USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal relates to the sexual abuse of hundreds of gymnasts—primarily minors—over two decades in the United States,starting in the 1990s. It is considered the largest sexual abuse scandal in sports history.
The 2017–18 United States political sexual scandals saw a heightened period of allegations of sexual misconduct,harassment and assault,and resulted in the subsequent firings and resignations of American politicians. Some of the allegations are linked to the aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases starting in October 2017 amid the wider MeToo movement.
Rachel Hope Mitchell is an American attorney serving as the County Attorney for Maricopa County,Arizona since April 2022. She was appointed to the position following the resignation of Allister Adel and won the 2022 special election. In 2019,she briefly served as the acting County Attorney after the appointment of Bill Montgomery to the Arizona Supreme Court. Previously,she was the Chief Deputy County Attorney,and chief of the Special Victims Division.
The 55th Arizona State Legislature,consisting of the Arizona Senate and the Arizona House of Representatives,is the current legislative session constituted in Phoenix on January 11,2021,during the second two years of Doug Ducey's second full term in office. Both the Senate and the House membership remained constant at 30 and 60,respectively. In the November 2020 Senate election,Democrats gained one seat,leaving the Republicans with a 16–14 majority. Republicans maintained an unchanged 31–29 majority in the House after the November 2020 House election.
