Arizona



Delina DiSanto, Democrat, District 4
Dave Giles, Republican, District 9

Delina DiSanto, Democrat, District 4:
- Affordable healthcare
- Clean/green technology jobs
- Environmental protections, especially water

Dave Giles, Republican, District 9:
a. Improve affordability of renewable energy (I have 100% coverage for solar on my southern roof)
b. Promote hydrogen fuel vehicles (Same vehicle as propane) using solar to separate out the hydrogen
c. Promote research into the Carnot cycle to extract energy from available desert heat.

Delina DiSanto, Democrat, District 4:
We have to start looking at the big picture. We have to honestly look at our water issues and are we sustainable and for how long. If our aquifers are not replenishing and our summers getting longer and hotter, we truly can’t have more new development around our state. In our rural areas, homeowners living near foreign alfalfa farms are depleting their wells and they can’t afford to dig deeper. Developers do reports that are to show there is adequate water supply for each development/subdivision for 100 years. But according to ASU researchers, they state these rules for these reports have to change. They are not accurate.

We must preserve our National Parks and Public Lands. Not just for the beauty and the economic impact to our state, but for the protection of our Native Americans, our wildlife and our water. We cannot allow mining or drilling in these areas because energy companies still have failed to clean up their disasters in our state and beyond.

Dave Giles, Republican, District 9:
a. Preserve our natural lands while permitting ecological use of natural resources.
b. Like bury power and liquid lines

Delina DiSanto, Democrat, District 4:
I do agree that the federal government needs to implement incentives to companies who are working toward and producing green/clean technologies. I would like to see HR 9 Climate Action Now Act get signed into law and have us get back into the Paris Agreement. I want to be able to bring green jobs into CD4 and work toward green manufacturing and green building. Trump reversed all of President Obama’s environmental protections executive orders; we must nullify Trump’s reversal and put these environmental protections into law.

Dave Giles, Republican, District 9:
a. Yes, incentives to promote the use of renewable fuels.
b. Make renewable fuels more economical
c. Look at geology over millions of years and how often the ice age returns and polar shifts.

Delina DiSanto, Democrat, District 4:
We have to work towards the Green New Deal, which includes a ten-year mobilization to achieve domestic net-zero emissions by 2030. This includes clean and renewable energy, infrastructure, and manufacturing starting now. We will need large, structural change across a range of sectors, industries and professions. I also like U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Blue New Deal to protect our oceans, waterways, expand offshore wind development, end offshore drilling and more.

I envision that we will still use natural gas for some time, but I am still very concerned it is a fossil fuel and is produced by fracking. If the process is not done correctly it will pollute our underground water, affecting communities. We must work towards zero emissions with hydroelectric, solar and wind. Even though nuclear energy is “clean”, the waste and the risk of a catastrophe is to high, and cancer rates are not worth the use of this fuel for the future. Also with population growth, we will need more nuclear plants across the nation, more uranium mining (high environmental risk) and possible national security risks. It’s just not a feasible energy product for our future.

Dave Giles, Republican, District 9:
a. Keeping our economy growing
b. Use an much renewable as we can.

Delina DiSanto, Democrat, District 4:
The federal government should work with the states land managers so as partners they can develop comprehensive fire management plans for that state. The plan needs to look at the role of natural fire, balancing to allow the wildfire or if it would be a threat to natural resources, our watersheds, or our scenic and recreational areas or communities.

Dave Giles, Republican, District 9:
a. Forest fires have been around long before dinosaurs, let alone humans.
b. We can maintain our forest with firebreaks to limit fires.

Delina DiSanto, Democrat, District 4:
Federal funding for public educations has been drastically cut. I will fight to reinvest in our public schools and ensure teachers have the training and support needed to successfully teach rigorous STEM curricula. We can partner with private sectors like technology companies who want to invest in their communities. We can work with Superintendents to help them expand student access to high-quality STEM learning. We have to address this inequity and ensure every student has access to quality, rigorous coursework taught by highly trained and supported teachers. Our national security, economy and technological future, as well as our children's future, depend on it.

Dave Giles, Republican, District 9:
a. Encourage knowledgeable use
b. Ensure safe research (do not kill babies)

Delina DiSanto, Democrat, District 4:
As I said in #2, water is of utmost importance for us to protect and is our water sustainable for our future. We have Middle East companies in our rural areas growing alfalfa and shipping it back to their countries for their cattle; basically stealing our water. There are no rulings that they can’t dig more wells on their property or drill deeper for water. This is affecting rural homeowners who can’t afford to dig deeper. Plus our aquifers are not replenishing at the rate of usage. We need to be able to have some control over those wells in our rural areas, either by the state or federally. Currently there is no federal mandate to protect our aquifers. The federal government has control over riparian rights, but with Trump’s rollback of Obama’s EPA orders now puts our wetlands and streams at risk from polluters. HR 1331 Local Water Protection Act controls pollution in navigable waters and groundwater. HR6745 Clean Water For All Act, includes categories of water bodies that affect the physical, chemical, or biological integrity of traditionally navigable and interstate waters, based on the best available scientific evidence. We must get these bills signed into law. States need to be partners in this process, but they must be advised that these policies are based on science and the future of their state is at stake, because our water quality, our usage, and the sustainability of our water has to be of higher importance than politics.

Dave Giles, Republican, District 9:
a. Make sure the corporate commission is responsible to Amazons first.
b. Monitor good practices for materials returned to the earth (water supplies).
c. The states should take over the EPA from the Federal Government to exercise better control over the needs of the local environment rather the big government telling the states what to do.