Legislative Update

Did you know that the average win/loss margin for the 2020 election was less than 2500 votes? Six races were decided by less than 200 votes. One race was only 43 votes!

FYI: There are over 300,000 registered motorcycles in Arizona. Over 90% of motorcyclists vote and the majority of those are independent voters. ABATE of Arizona is the largest motorcycle rights organization in Arizona. #IRideIVote

Make sure you vote! And Vote like a motorcyclist. Last month we included a voting record of the state legislators over the past two sessions. Use that as one of your resources.

We will include a candidate survey in the October Masterlink in time for you to do your research for the November General Election.

2023 Legislative Agenda

The ABATE Legislative Agenda survey is still live. As of my writing this (07/15) we have had a great response.

Top three issues so far:

Improve Crash scene management and the practice of law enforcement issuing citations at the scene of a motorcycle crash involving careless and reckless drivers. (72%)

Escalated penalties for careless and reckless drivers (72%)

Infrastructure planning equity - road maintenance that take motorcycle rider safety, visibility, and traction into account. (71%)

Make sure you go to the survey on the ABATE website and take the survey if you have not yet.

REMINDER:

If you would like to hold a town hall style event for your chapter for the candidates/legislators, let me know. We have money in our legislative budget to host them in each chapter area.

Until next time.

Mike Infanzon
Legislative Director