Lydia Hernandez (DINO) is a
member of the Arizona House of Representatives,
representing District 24. She assumed office on
January 9, 2023. Her current term ends on
January 13, 2025. Hernandez is also an at-large
member of the Cartwright Elementary School
District Governing Board in Arizona. Her current
term ends on January 1, 2027. Hernandez ran for
election to the Arizona House of Representatives
to represent District 24. She won in the general
election on November 8, 2022. Hernandez also ran
for re-election for an at-large seat of the
Cartwright Elementary School District Governing
Board in Arizona. She won in the general
election on November 8, 2022. She was unopposed
in her 2014 re-election bid and was appointed to
retain her seat following the cancellation of
the election on September 10, 2014. Hernandez
was a Democratic candidate for District 29 of
the Arizona State Senate in 2014 and 2016.
Hernandez is running for re-election to the
Arizona House of Representatives to represent
District 24. She is on the ballot in the
Democratic primary on July 30, 2024.
"In a fresh ethics
complaint by a House
Democrat, a state
lawmaker is accusing
fellow Democratic
Latino caucus
members of holding
her hostage in her
office for more than
an hour last year
over political
differences. Rep.
Lydia Hernandez
of Phoenix also
tried to lodge a
criminal complaint
last month with
Arizona Department
of Public Safety
troopers at the
state Capitol about
the incident, which
she claims occurred
after weeks of
bullying, bigotry
and ageism by
several Democratic
lawmakers. Her
allegations followed
a week in which
another Democratic
representative,
Leezah Sun, resigned
before an expected
expulsion vote over
an ethics complaint
against her." [ . .
. ] ""They
need to learn a
lesson," Lydia
Hernandez said of
the three women."
"Hernandez has
apparently allowed
mental health issues
to cloud her
judgment, and her
lack of character,
empathy, decency and
prudence makes it
extremely difficult
to fathom the
possibility of
respect for her as
Chair of our
National Hispanic
Council,"
"Lydia
Hernández...made her opposition to reproductive
rights known in 2013 when she signed the
Center for Arizona Policy statement denouncing Roe
v. Wade."
"Lydia Hernandez took
a pledge that could restrict a woman's
right to a safe, legal abortion" "When
Hernandez took that pledge, she told us
right then and there that she believes
politicians should make deeply personal
medical decisions for every Arizona
woman."
Stonewall Democrats
of Arizona denounce
Lydia
Hernández
PRESS RELEASE
Stonewall
Democrats of Arizona
3 May, 2014
On Wednesday, April 31,
2014 the West Side Town
Hall Steering Committee held a bipartisan
candidate debate for legislative candidates
in district 29 (a Phoenix LD). During the
event Francisco Mendoza, a top financial donor
and campaign manager for LD 29 State House
Rep. Lydia
Hernández, asked "when it comes
to preferences, and we have children here so
I will not say the word, when it comes to
those love preferences, do you prefer the
same gender?" While questions of this sort
are common among the
Tea Party, they are out
of place amongst Democrats. A person’s
orientation should have no bearing in
regards elected office. She did not at
that time, nor since, distance herself or her
campaign from these comments and has not
denounced them or her manager in any way.
Stonewall has repeatedly attempted to
contact Rep. Hernández in regards this issue
but with no results. In consideration of
these comments and others, the failure of
Rep. Hernández to denounce Mr. Mendoza and
reject his comments, Stonewall Democrats of
Arizona, as of today (May 3) denounce LD-29
State Representative Lydia Hernández and
support the candidacy of State Rep. Martin
Quezada for State Senate LD-29.
"The chairwoman of the Democrats in Legislative District 13 in west Phoenix is facing state and county investigations looking into allegations that she forged petition signatures on political-candidacy documents for herself and two other women.
The investigations into Lydia Hernandez's petitions for two races were prompted by complaints filed by Sen. Steve Gallardo, D-Phoenix, earlier this month. The claim will likely intensify tension between the two, who sit on the Cartwright Elementary School District governing board and are critical of each other's leadership.
In a letter sent last week to Secretary of State Ken Bennett, Gallardo accused Hernandez of submitting 53 forged signatures on two Arizona House candidacy petitions: one for herself and a second on behalf of another candidate, Martha Garcia, in District 13, which spans Avondale, Tolleson and Maryvale."
"Lydia
Guzman, who
is the
leader of
Somos
America,
said she
learned
recently
that a July
28th broadcast
of the local
public radio
show on KJZZ,
“Here and
Now,”
featured a
phone
interview
about
immigration
with a woman
who claimed
she was
Guzman of
Somos
America.
But Guzman
said she did
not give the
interview.
“It was
Lydia
Hernandez,”
Guzman said
she realized
after
listening to
the
recording.
“Throughout
the
interview on
NPR, the guy
kept saying
‘Lydia
Guzman’ and
throughout
that whole
time, she
didn’t say
she was
Lydia
Hernandez.”"
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