Carol Springer

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Carol Springer (born December 5, 1936 in Buena Vista , Colorado , † August 9, 2018 in Prescott , Arizona ) was an American real estate agent and politician ( Republican Party ).

Private life

Springer was born in Buena Vista, Colorado in 1936. Her family moved even during her childhood to Portland ( Oregon ). Springer grew up there. She moved to Arizona in 1969 when her then-husband was transferred there for work. Years later, Springer said the following:

“When I first came to Arizona, I didn't think there was much to like. Coming from a state that was beautiful and green, it's kind of hard to get used to the desert. It kind of grew on me. Everything you could want - except an ocean - we have it here. There's a lot to love in Arizona. "

“When I first came to Arizona I didn't think there was much to like. I came from a state that was beautiful and green. So it was difficult for me to get used to the desert. It took time. Everything you could want - except an ocean - we have here. There's a lot to love in Arizona. "

Springer and her husband divorced a few years after arriving in Arizona. The five children they shared stayed with her. In the following years Springer settled in Prescott ( Yavapai County ). She worked there as a real estate agent, most recently in her own office.

Political career

Arizona Senate

Over time, she decided to pursue a political career. In 1989 she ran for the Arizona Senate of the First Senate District of Arizona . After her successful election, she began her two-year term in 1990. She was re-elected three times in a row. She said the following about her early days:

“It was scary, because I really had no political experience. I was, as they say, green as grass. [Therefore] I kept my mouth shut and my ears open and learned. [Already after a short time] I found so much of what we dealt with at the legislature was things I'd been working with for years. "

“It was scary because I really had no political experience. As they say, I wasn't dry behind the ears. [So] I kept my mouth open, my ears open, and learned. [After a short time] I understood this: Much of what the Arizona Legislature deals with are things I have worked with for years (such as land use laws and water law) ”

She came to this conclusion at her first meeting on the subject of water:

"There were a lot of people talking about water, but it was very evident that very few of them knew anything about it."

"There were a lot of people talking about water, but it was very evident that few of them knew about it."

Springer chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee . During this time she took action against "smoke-and-mirror" budget tactics. One of her priorities was to move the budgeting process forward in the legislative period. In their opinion, this would prevent MPs from swapping their votes for budget deals. Springer said:

"I thought we could eliminate a lot of pork-barrel spending if we did the budget in the middle rather than the end."

"I thought we could prevent a lot of constituency gifts if we put the budget in the middle instead of the end."

She was also responsible for removing a number of accounting tricks. This prevented the authorities from shifting $ 200 million in debt into future fiscal years.

State Treasurer of Arizona

The drafters of the Arizona state constitution put a term limit on the term of office in the state constitution. The term limit would apply to Springer if she sat in the Arizona Senate in 2000. So she decided to pursue a higher post. Springer successfully ran for the post of State Treasurer of Arizona in 1998 . Their policy was based on the wing of the Republican Party, which stood for the fiscal-conservative, liberal, lean state. At the beginning of 1999 she started her four-year term. Springer later said the following about her tenure as State Treasurer:

“Being the state treasurer is really being the state banker. And what I realized when I got into it is that banking isn't my thing. I really preferred policy-making. "

“To be the state treasurer is really to be the state banker. It wasn't until I took up the post that I realized that banking was not for me. I really prefer policy making. "

Nomination for the 2002 Arizona gubernatorial election

In 2002 she ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for the post of governor of Arizona. She took third place behind Congressman Matt Salmon and Secretary of State of Arizona, Betsey Bayless . In the elections that followed, Republican candidate Salmon was defeated by Democratic candidate and Attorney General of Arizona, Janet Napolitano . With regard to the election, Springer said the following:

"It's very difficult, I find, for someone outside the major counties, Maricopa or Pima, to win a statewide election."

"It is very difficult, I find, to win a state-wide election for someone outside the big counties, Maricopa or Pima ."

Financing the election campaign was made even more difficult by the new “Clean Elections” law, which came into force this year. Every candidate who wanted government funding for his election campaign had to prove a certain number of $ 5  donations. Springer and Bayless had their difficulties with this. In this context, Springer later said the following:

“Everyone assumed that $ 5 was not going to be hard to collect, but it was extremely hard. [When the time came] we had run out of time to use the money. Somebody had to be the first to try it, and it did not work well. "

“Everyone assumed that raising the $ 5 donation wasn't difficult, but it was extremely tough. [When the time came] we ran out of time to use the money. Someone had to be the first to try it. It didn't work well. "

Yavapai County County Council

After her loss in the Republican primary, she returned to Prescott disappointed. She decided not to work in real estate again.

When Gheral Brownlow no longer wanted to run for another tenure as District 1 County Supervisor in 2004 , she ran instead and won the seat. Springer took up her new post in early 2005. She was re-elected once. Their first priority was raising funds for the ailing county buildings. She believed the county attorney's office was a broom closet and the Marina Street facility was old enough to see through the walls. In 2012 she retired. At the time, Williamson Valley Road was on her unfinished project list . In this context, Springer said the following:

“We ran out of money. It would have been nice to do that. "

“We ran out of money. It would have been nice to have implemented it. "

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Carol Springer on the Our Campaigns website
  2. ^ Obituary , accessed on August 21, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c d Nintzel, Jim: Two Republicans Attempt To Waltz Their Way Into The State Treasurer's Office , Tucson Weekly, August 6, 1998

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personal data
SURNAME Springer, Carol
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American real estate agent and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Buena Vista , Colorado
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 2018
Place of death Prescott , Arizona