Your Help is Needed Urgently
The Marana Data Center Fight Needs You!
First, I want to say how awesome it was to get out and meet so many folks Saturday at the Marana site for the No Kings Protest. It was really wonderful to see fellow residents out protesting both local and federal overreach and just plain insanity. Speaking with so many folks on the data center projects, getting them up to speed, and seeing how many support rejecting the rezoning was awesome. I need your help to call on that spirit to fight an urgent fight, now.
There is a strike everything amendment that is trying to make its way through the Arizona Legislature, and it has a key step tomorrow that we need to push back on, hard. The striker (as I have learned they are called) is the following:
You can find more information here from Legiscan on the specifics around HB2873.
While I don’t know any more than the representatives involved with this bill, and because it is a striker that is murky too, as to who exactly is filing what, but it feels pretty blatant that this is directed at the current Marana Data Center fight, and someone is trying to create RETROACTIVE legislation to nullify the referendums. If you want a great synopsis of the path to get here, go check out Jackie’s Instagram video here. This process, as I spoke to so many of you about on Saturday, has been complex, but the optimism that the law was on our side and that we would ultimately have our say was running high. It looks like the interests behind these projects are once again out in full force to suppress the voters in Marana. Whether you are for or against the project or any project that would be subject to a referendum, the fact that someone wants to take that away should be fundamentally insulting.
Now for the need part. The bill is going to a hearing in the Legislature at 1 pm tomorrow, March 30, 2026.
1️⃣ Email and call the senators in the Senate Committee on Rules:
Lela Alston (D - District 5)
Email: lalston@azleg.gov
Phone: 602-926-5829
Flavio Bravo (D - District 26)
Email: fbravo@azleg.gov
Phone: 602-926-4033
Catherine Miranda (D - District 11)
Email: cmiranda@azleg.gov
Phone: 602-926-3413
Priya Sundareshan (D - District 18)
Email: psundareshan@azleg.gov
Phone: (602) 926-3437
Janae Shamp (R - District 29 (Vice Chair))
Email: jshamp@azleg.gov
Phone: (602) 926-3499
David Farnsworth (R - District 10 (Chair))
Email: dfarnsworth@azleg.gov
Capitol Phone: (602) 926-3387
Frank Carroll (R - District 28)
Email: fcarroll@azleg.gov
Capitol Phone: (602) 926-3249
Warren Petersen (R - District 14)
Email: wpetersen@azleg.gov
Phone: 602-926-4136
Thomas Shope (R - District 16)
Email: tshope@azleg.gov
Capitol Phone: 602-926-3012
2️⃣ Sign on to the Request to Speak (RTS) system and vote NO on HB2873.
The link to the Request to Speak is here.
3️⃣ Share Jackie’s video, this post, both, shout from the rooftops, spread the word!
I want to say thank you in advance, and I appreciate any shares and any contact with the folks above. The fact that anyone, no less our representatives, would want to take away our right as residents of a town to have a say in what happens is fundamentally un-American. I fully appreciate that there are massive incentives and enormous sums of money at stake in this fight, and that they will try to win at all costs. The fact that something like this is even on the table, and worse, this far into the process, is just maddening.
Thank you for your help and support in this fight!
Thank you for this information. I will definitely send an email to all the senators listed. Is there a script email that we should be following? Unfortunately I cannot use the request to speak option on the AZ Legislature site, I have an account, but have not gone to the AZ capitol and signed in on one of their Kiosks, which is required in order to use the request to speak option :(
Here is what Jackie put on Facebook. I have called them all. One lady answering the phone said, you’re from Marana and I said yes. She then said they getting a lot calls and had 31 emails. I called them and it was very easy, told them to vote No on HB 2873. One and done.