Allen weathers criticism of racially-charged comments
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Allen weathers criticism of racially-charged comments
By: Julia Shumway July 31, 2019
Josselyn Berry, executive director of ProgressNow Arizona (Photo by Kendra Penningroth, Arizona Capitol Times)
Josselyn Berry, executive director of ProgressNow Arizona (Photo by Kendra Penningroth, Arizona Capitol Times)
The Democratic senator and liberal activists who delivered more than 1,000 petitions calling for Sen. Sylvia Allen to lose her position as leader of the Senate Education Committee Wednesday morning acknowledged that Allen isn’t likely to go anywhere.
Allen, R-Snowflake, has faced harsh criticism from Democrats and one primary opponent since the Phoenix New Times published audio of her decrying immigration and feminism, but most of her Republican colleagues have defended her or stayed mute.
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Allen ended a 25-minute speech about Christianity during a July 15 event at Arizona Republican Party headquarters by warning that the U.S. would “look like South American countries very quickly.”
She cited research by University of North Carolina demographer James Johnson, who has done extensive work on phenomena he calls the “browning” and “graying” of America, or the concept that the country has an aging white population and a younger population of color.
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