Arizona Governor: Brewer Will Run for Re-election

By Emily Cadei | November 6, 2009 11:10 AM | | Comments (0)

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, R, will run for a full term in 2010, she confirmed Thursday. Brewer filed the paperwork for a gubernatorial campaign and gave a speech in Tuscon, Ariz. outlining why voters should return her to the governor's mansion in her own right.

Brewer was elected to a second term as Arizona secretary of State in 2006, then succeeded Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano after she resigned to become Secretary of Homeland Security.

But she has had a rocky first nine months as governor in which she has battled her own party in the state legislature over how to best close the state's $2 billion budget deficit. A Public Policy Polling survey released in September pegged Brewer's approval rating at just 26 percent. That and her reticence about whether or not she would run has drawn other Republicans into the race.

Attorney and former state GOP Chairman John Munger is already in the running, and picked up the endorsement of former Gov. Fife Symington after Symington dropped his own exploration of the race. Vernon Parker, mayor of the Phoenix suburb of Paradise Valley, Ariz., is actively exploring the race and expected to formally enter it soon. And state Treasurer Dean Martin is also considering a bid and would be a formidable candidate should he decide to run.

Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard is the favorite in the Democratic field.

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