Alfredo Gutierrez
Alfredo Gutierrez was the District 5 representative on the governing board of the Maricopa County Community College District in Arizona. Gutierrez won a new term in the general election on November 8, 2016. In addition to his role on the board, Gutierrez worked an immigration reform advocate, author, and former majority leader in the Arizona State Senate.
Biography
Political career
In 1972, Gutierrez was elected to the Arizona State Senate, and he was selected to serve as the majority leader in the Senate in 1974. He served in a leadership position until 1986, when he declined to run for re-election. Gutierrez was also the Democratic candidate for governor of Arizona in 2002.[1] In 2014, Gutierrez was appointed to the Maricopa County Community College board after the death of board member Ben Miranda.[2] He ran unopposed and was re-elected in 2016.[3]
Consulting
After leaving the state senate in 1986, Gutierrez started a consulting firm, Jamieson and Gutierrez, and focused on client relations with state government. According to SF Gate, Gutierrez's firm was one that "a corporation might hire to help it navigate political waters."[4]
Activism
Gutierrez sold his consulting firm in 2000 and began to work as a community activist, a role he had filled prior to entering politics. For seven years, he hosted a Spanish-language radio program in Phoenix and was vocal in his opposition to a 2010 state law that required all aliens over the age of fourteen to have documentation of their legal status in their possession at all times. According to KJZZ in Phoenix, one of the show's features involved updating the Latino community about immigrants from Mexico. The station reported in 2016, "Many people would bring Alfredo purses, or IDs, or photos that had been found in the desert near the Arizona-Mexico border. Alfredo would describe the items on the air in hopes that someone would recognize them or confirm that they had made it across the border safely."[5]
In 2014, Gutierrez told MSNBC that he had been interested in immigration activism since childhood. His father was deported in the 1930s and then recruited to return to the United States during World War II to increase the number of underground miners. Gutierrez was born in the United States after his father's re-entry, but he told the network, "From the time I can remember, it was drilled into us never to discuss the deportation or the legal status of the family outside the house. That fear became extreme during Operation Wetback in the ’50s. Advocating justice for immigrants has seemed like my calling."[6]
Gutierrez is also a columnist with La Voz Arizona, a Spanish-language newspaper and website based in Arizona. His writing concerns Arizona policy on immigration and issues related to Latinos in the state.[7]
Elections
2016
Maricopa County held elections for the county board of supervisors, county assessor, county attorney, county recorder, sheriff, county treasurer, and special districts in 2016. The general election was held on November 8, 2016. A primary election was held on August 30, 2016. The filing deadline for those wishing to run in this election was June 1, 2016.[8] Incumbent Alfredo Gutierrez ran unopposed in the Maricopa County Community College District District 5 general election.[9]
| Maricopa County Community College District, District 5 General Election, 2016 | ||
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 Alfredo Gutierrez Incumbent | ||
| Source: Maricopa County Recorder, "2016 General Election Final Results," accessed November 28, 2016 | ||
See also
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External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Maricopa County Community College District, "Mr. Alfredo Guiterrez," accessed March 29, 2017
- ↑ Phoenix New Times, "Alfredo Gutierrez Appointed to Maricopa Community Colleges Governing Board," January 31, 2014
- ↑ Arizona Republic, "Maricopa Community Colleges board: 2 new members, same 4-3 split," November 11, 2016
- ↑ SF Gate, "Alfredo Gutierrez takes a stand in Arizona," August 9, 2010
- ↑ KJZZ, "Arizona Storytellers: Alfredo Gutierrez," July 1, 2016
- ↑ MSNBC, "Leading Arizona activist on immigration reform’s biggest hurdle," September 26, 2014
- ↑ La Voz Arizona, "Alfredo Gutierrez," accessed March 29, 2017
- ↑ Arizona Secretary of State, "Elections Calendar & Upcoming Events," accessed September 2, 2016
- ↑ Maricopa County Recorder, "2016 General Election Candidate Listing," August 24, 2016
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