Sean Bowie · [email protected]

July 5, 2022 at 4:32 PM

My Final Email

John -- With our legislative session complete, this is the last email you will receive from me on this account. Promise! I will be taking down my campaign website later this week, meaning I will no longer be reachable through the website or this email address. Thank you for all your s…

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June 27, 2022 at 3:36 PM

How the Bipartisan Budget Deal Came Together

John -- Happy Monday! Welcome to our *final* update from the state capitol. This will be a longer update than normal, considering the events of the past week. If you read my update last Monday morning, I shared with you that negotiations were ongoing, but I did not expect a budget to happe…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

June 20, 2022 at 3:35 PM

Another JUNE Update - Deadline Edition!

John -- Good morning, and welcome to yet another JUNE edition of our state capitol update! Today is June 20th, and we are unfortunately still not close to a state budget. The deadline to pass one is NEXT WEEK. I participated in some initial conversations on a potential bipartisan state bud…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

June 13, 2022 at 2:56 PM

Yet another JUNE update from the state capitol

John -- Good morning, and welcome to our second JUNE legislative update! It’s June 13th, and we still do not have a state budget. In fact, we are not close to a state budget deal. We have two and a half weeks to pass a $14 billion plus budget and hopefully adjourn the session. No pressure!…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

June 6, 2022 at 2:55 PM

June Update from the State Capitol

John -- Good morning, and welcome to a JUNE issue of our legislative update! You might be thinking to yourself: why are we still in session in June? Normally our legislative sessions end around early May. We are months past the point when we stopped holding regular committee hearings. Most…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

May 2, 2022 at 3:10 PM

Weekly Update from the State Capitol

John -- Welcome to our latest weekly update from the state capitol! There’s not much going on at the moment at the capitol these days. Sure, there are conversations ongoing about the state budget, and how we should use the billions of dollars in surplus money that we are projected to have.…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

April 18, 2022 at 3:10 PM

Weekly Update from the State Capitol

John -- Welcome to our latest weekly update from the state capitol! The capitol is a lot quieter than it usually is during session. With committee hearings over and done with, we have entered the “hurry up and wait” part of the legislative session. It’s rare for all thirty senators to be o…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

March 28, 2022 at 3:29 PM

Weekly Update from the State Capitol

John -- Welcome to our latest weekly update from the state capitol! A great way to start the week yesterday: I attended the annual Fresh Brunch event for one n ten, a local organization that does amazing work supporting our young LGBTQ population throughout Arizona. I’ve worked …

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

March 21, 2022 at 2:32 PM

Weekly Update from the State Capitol

John -- Good morning, and welcome to our latest weekly update. Some somber news this morning: one of my dearest friends and in many ways the heart and soul of our Legislative District 18 Democrats, CJ Briggle, passed away this weekend. I first met CJ when I first got involved in polit…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

March 14, 2022 at 3:36 PM

Weekly Update from the State Capitol

John -- Good morning, and welcome to our latest weekly update from the state capitol! It’s a little bit of a somber day, because later this morning I will be attending the memorial service for my good friend and former colleague David Bradley. He passed away a couple of weeks ago from canc…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

February 28, 2022 at 3:48 PM

Weekly Update from the State Capitol

John -- Welcome to our latest weekly update! Wow, what a week it was last week. Let’s dive in. As you may have heard, the Senate finally voted this past Monday to lift the Aggregate Expenditure Limit (AEL), and I of course voted yes. You could say it was the easiest vote I’ve cast all year…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

February 21, 2022 at 3:26 PM

Weekly Update from the State Capitol

John -- Welcome to our latest weekly update from the state capitol! My apologies for the last two weeks and not sending out updates. This legislative session has been busier than most, and coupled with my second job and graduate school, I have very little free time these days to do much of…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

February 1, 2022 at 3:26 PM

Weekly Update from the State Capitol

John -- Welcome to our latest weekly update from the state capitol! We have started Week 4 of the legislative session, and it’s about this time of the year when things really start to pick up. The deadline to drop bills in the Senate was yesterday, so other than strikers down the road, the…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

January 25, 2022 at 3:23 PM

Weekly Update from the State Capitol

John -- Hello, and welcome to the third week of the legislative session! Committee hearings are well underway, and we expect to have our first floor debates and votes later this week. Let’s start with some good news! SB 1017, my bill to create a statewide finance review task force to exami…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

January 18, 2022 at 3:14 PM

Weekly Update from the State Capitol

John -- Welcome to our first weekly update of the 2022 legislative session! Last Monday I kicked off my sixth and final legislative session, full of emotions and excitement to get started. As you may have heard, we have a lot of new faces at the capitol, both in the Senate and the House, s…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

December 20, 2021 at 5:20 PM

December Update

John -- Happy Monday! With the holiday season in full swing, and the 2022 legislative session right around the corner, I wanted to check in and give you a quick update on what I’m working on and what I’m seeing as we approach Opening Day on January 10th. As you know, this fall I have been …

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

November 8, 2021 at 4:25 PM

November Update

John -- Happy Monday! The 2022 legislative session is just around the corner (it seems like just yesterday that we were adjourning the LAST legislative session), so I wanted to check in and give you an update on what I’m working on. Even though we are not currently in session, I am going i…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

October 11, 2021 at 4:15 PM

A Quick Update

John -- I wanted to give you a quick update on what I’m up to during the “off season.” The legislature is only a part-time job, right? Not the way that I approach the job, anyway! Even though I announced last month that I will not be running for a fourth term in the state senate next …

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

September 7, 2021 at 4:33 PM

Why I Will Not Be Running for Re-Election in 2022

John -- I will always remember sitting in my car outside of the state capitol on the morning of March 11th, 2015. I was about to file paperwork to run for the state senate in the community I grew up in, and I was terrified. Very few people gave me a chance of winning the race. As a shy int…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

July 8, 2021 at 4:34 PM

Sine Die

John -- We officially adjourned our legislative session last week, and at 171 days, it was the third longest session ever (if we had stayed in session a couple of more days, we would have set the record for longest in Arizona history. So close!). As you know by now, we passed a state budge…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

June 15, 2021 at 3:30 PM

SB 22 - Update from the State Capitol

John -- Good morning, and welcome to our twenty-second edition of our weekly updates from the state capitol. Twenty two! Yes, it is mid-June, and we are still in session. We officially returned from our two-week “recess” last Thursday, but other than re-introduce the twenty two bills the g…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

June 8, 2021 at 3:38 PM

SB 21 - Update from the State Capitol

John -- Good morning, and welcome to our latest weekly update from the state capitol! It’s Week 21! This is my fifth year at the state capitol, and in none of my previous legislative sessions were we ever in session in the month of June. Yet here we are, June 8th, still in session and no c…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

June 1, 2021 at 3:34 PM

SB 20 - Update from the State Capitol

John -- Good morning, and welcome to our twentieth weekly update from the state capitol. Quite the week last week, right? In case you missed it, the budget conversations blew up last week, and instead of passing a state budget and possibly adjourning for the year, both the House and the Se…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

May 25, 2021 at 2:39 PM

SB 19 - Update from the State Capitol

John -- Good morning, and welcome to our nineteenth weekly update from the state capitol! BUDGET edition, since the official budget bills dropped yesterday! But there is a key difference from previous years: the budget bills that were dropped yesterday do not have the required number of vo…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

May 18, 2021 at 3:32 PM

SB 18 - Update from the State Capitol

John -- Good morning, and welcome to our eighteenth weekly update from the state capitol on all things legislative session! Today is May 18th, and in most years, we would have already completed the budget and adjourned. But as you could probably tell from my updates this year, 2021 has not…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

May 11, 2021 at 3:35 PM

SB 17 - Update from the State Capitol

John -- Hello, and welcome to the seventeenth edition of our weekly updates on all things legislative session! Yesterday was the 120th day of session, which marks the end of the regular per diem payments we receive every day as legislators ($35 per day for legislators from Maricopa County,…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

May 4, 2021 at 3:41 PM

SB 16 - Update from the State Capitol

John -- Hello and welcome to our sixteenth weekly update on all things legislative session. We’re already at Week 16, you say? Another relatively quiet week at the capitol last week, with really only one day of substantive floor action on Wednesday. Thursday in particular was uneventful: w…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

April 27, 2021 at 3:35 PM

SB 15 - Update from the State Capitol

John -- Hello and welcome to our fifteenth weekly update on all things legislative session! Time flies when you are having fun, right? We marked the 100th day of session last week, which serves as an unofficial starting point to everyone asking, “so, when’s the budget going to get done?” T…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

April 20, 2021 at 3:35 PM

SB 14 - Update from the State Capitol

John -- Hello and welcome to our fourteenth weekly update on all things legislative session! Today marks the 100th day of session, which is usually the target date for the legislature to wrap up its business and look to adjourn. I can confirm that we are in fact nowhere near wrapping up, w…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

April 13, 2021 at 3:45 PM

SB 13 - Update from the State Capitol

John -- Welcome to our thirteenth weekly update from the state capitol! Unlucky number 13! Now that committee hearings have ended (save for a random few where we approve gubernatorial appointments), that means our floor schedules have shifted a little bit. On Monday’s, we go to the Senate …

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

April 6, 2021 at 3:43 PM

SB 12 - Update from the State Capitol

John -- Welcome to our twelfth weekly update from the state capitol! I hope you enjoy these updates each week as we navigate the 2021 legislative session. Well, we did it: we survived the Senate Appropriations hearing last week. We started at around 9am and finished around 10:20pm, with tw…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

March 30, 2021 at 3:45 PM

SB 11 - Update from the State Capitol

John -- Welcome to our eleventh weekly update from the state capitol! I hope you enjoy these updates each week as we navigate the 2021 legislative session. Some good news: other than Appropriations hearings in the House today and the Senate tomorrow, committee hearings for 2021 are finishe…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

March 23, 2021 at 3:45 PM

SB 10 - Update from the State Capitol

John -- Welcome to our tenth weekly update from the state capitol! I hope you enjoy these updates every week as we navigate our legislative session. This week is the final week for the Senate to hear House bills in committee, and for the House to hear Senate bills in committee, with the ex…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

March 16, 2021 at 3:45 PM

SB 9 - Update from the State Capitol

John -- Welcome to our ninth weekly update from the state capitol! I hope you enjoy these updates each week as the legislative session progresses. For those of you who read last week’s update, I am happy to report that last week was nowhere near as bad as the previous week. It was mostly q…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

February 23, 2021 at 3:15 PM

SB 6 - Update from the State Capitol

John -- Welcome to our sixth weekly update from the state capitol! I hope you enjoy our updates every week as we navigate the ins and outs of a very busy legislative session. This week is what we call Crossover Week, where other than Appropriations there are zero committee hearings and we …

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

February 16, 2021 at 3:40 PM

SB 5 - Update from the State Capitol

John -- Welcome to our fifth weekly update from the state capitol! I hope you enjoy our updates every week as we navigate the twists and turns of the legislative session. This week is going to be a long one, because it is the final week to hear bills in their chamber of origin. So Senate b…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

February 9, 2021 at 3:44 PM

SB 4 - Update from the State Capitol

John -- Welcome to our fourth weekly update from the state capitol! I hope you enjoy these updates each week. Our deadline to drop bills was last week, so we are fully in the thick of hearing lots of bills in committees and long floor sessions where we cast our final votes on bills to send them…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

February 2, 2021 at 3:39 PM

SB 3 - Update from the State Capitol

John -- Welcome to our third weekly update from the state capitol! I hope you enjoy these updates each week. The legislative session is now fully in gear; this is expected to be a busy week full of committee hearings, floor debates, and efforts to stop many of the bad bills making their way thr…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

January 26, 2021 at 3:35 PM

SB 2 - Update from the State Capitol

John -- Welcome to our second update from the capitol! After a shortened schedule last week, we are diving into a full week of committee hearings this week, and our first floor votes of the session are expected later this week as well. If you support our work, please consider a contributio…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

January 19, 2021 at 3:46 PM

SB 1 - Update from the State Capitol

John -- Welcome back to our weekly updates from the capitol! Every Tuesday morning I will provide an update on what I’m seeing and hearing during our legislative session. If you support our work, please consider a contribution to help us start the year off strong ! As you know, I was …

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

January 11, 2021 at 4:20 PM

Opening Day

John -- At noon today, I will be sworn in for my third term to serve my constituents in the Arizona State Senate. Opening Day is always a humbling experience. Ever since I was first sworn in back in 2017, I am reminded of the sacred honor and privilege of representing the community that I …

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

November 4, 2020 at 6:09 PM

We Won, John! Thank You!

John -- I am happy to report that we WON our race last night by a humbling 20+ point margin! A special THANK YOU to all of you who helped make this happen. Thank you for your financial support, your volunteering hours, and all of your support along the way. I look forward to returning t…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

October 21, 2020 at 4:43 PM

We need to step it up, John

John -- With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, we are hard at work to get our message out to voters and ensure we win this critically important race. But I'm going to be honest with you. We still need to raise the last bit of funds necessary to help us get our message out to voters…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

October 14, 2020 at 4:41 PM

Bad news, John

John -- With less than three weeks to go until Election Day, it's all hands on deck as we communicate with voters throughout Legislative District 18. I need your help . We need to raise the last bit of funds necessary to help us continue our digital advertisements through Election Day. Can …

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

October 6, 2020 at 4:45 PM

This is It, John

John -- This is it. Early ballots are being mailed to voters THIS WEEK, and Election Day is only four weeks away. We're getting close to the finish line, and that's why I need your help. Can you support our campaign today? The most important election of our lifetime will be here before we …

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

September 29, 2020 at 4:33 PM

*CRITICAL* Deadline Tomorrow, John

John -- With only 35 days to go until Election Day, I'm hard at work to make sure we are successful in this campaign. But I need your help . We have a *critical* end of quarter fundraising deadline coming up TOMORROW. Can you help us meet our goal? We still need to raise the last bit of fu…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

September 22, 2020 at 5:51 PM

We're running out of time, John

John -- With SIX WEEKS to go until Election Day, I'm running the numbers to make sure we can get our message out to voters. I need your help - we still need to raise the last bit of funds necessary to help get us over the finish line. Can you help with a contribution today? Ballots start g…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

September 14, 2020 at 4:41 PM

This is Not a Drill, John - 50 DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY!

John -- This is not a drill. Election Day is 50 DAYS from today. Ballots drop in less than a month. Can you believe it?! I'm hard at work to win this campaign, but I need your help. We are getting our voter contact materials ready to go, and we need to raise the last bit of funds to complete…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

September 8, 2020 at 4:54 PM

It's Crunch Time, John

John -- It's crunch time. With Labor Day behind us, we are now 56 days away from this critically important election. But ballots start going out less than 30 days from now, which means we need your help TODAY to ensure we have the resources we need to compete this fall. Can I count on your…

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  Sean Bowie · [email protected]

August 27, 2020 at 4:48 PM

LAST CHANCE to DOUBLE Your Impact, John!

John -- I am so thankful for the outpouring of support this week. We are so close to hitting our goal as we wrap our FINAL match program of the campaign! There's no better time to donate and show your support for our campaign! With 68 days to go until Election Day, every dollar coun…

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