Governor Katie Hobbs has agreed to send her Cabinet nominees to the Arizona Senate, where they will face the same confirmation process she clashed with Republicans over.The governor, a Democrat, battled the Republican-led Senate last year over the approval of her state agency directors. Republicans sued late last year after Hobbs bypassed the process by yanking her nominees and appointing executive deputy directors to oversee 13 agencies.
'Agency directors need to be quality candidates,' he said.“They do things that affect the public, and so it's really important that these people are competent and fair in what they're doing,” he said.Hobbs told ABC15 in January that the confirmation process went “far beyond” the Senate’s responsibilities.'The fact is, Arizonans sent me here to do a job,” she said. “Agency directors are an important piece of doing that job.