PHOENIX — Yes, voters decimated the ranks of state Senate Republicans at the ballot box this year.
But John Kavanagh, who takes on the unexpected title of minority leader, says he doesn’t see the election results as a rejection of the policies GOP lawmakers have been espousing now for decades.
The Fountain Hills Republican told Capitol Media Services on Monday, after he was selected by the remaining Senate Republicans, he’s convinced that staying the course on those messages of affordability, low taxes, less regulation and even border enforcement will lead voters in two years to return his party to the majority status it has enjoyed for all but two years since 1966 — and possibly even give him the chance to serve as Senate president, the post he had hoped to assume.
