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I'M STEVE GOLDSTEIN IN FOR TED SIMONS.

THE COUNTDOWN TO PRIMARY SEASON IS ON BUT THE LEGAL FIGHT BETWEEN THE MARICOPA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, AND COUNT RECORDER JUSTIN HEAP IS ONGOING IT IS STILL UNCLEAR WHO WILL CONTROL COUNTY ELECTIONS.

HERE TO DISCUSS IS MARICOPA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS CHAIR KATE BROPHY McGEE.

Thank you for being here, good to see you.

>> Wonderful to be here.

Let's go backwards a bit from the most recent news.

What did you mark the recorder's response of the board's approach.

Especially related it the number of potential early voting sites.

That seemed to be some confusion.

>> That's a kind way of putting it.

It's behavior I have seen before.

What is important is to understand that it's political posturing on Mr.

Heap's part.

At the end of the day, we are focused, as a board, on conducting elections in which voters can participate wholeheartedly and feel very confident of the outcomes.

>> So we have, because of legislative action and, signature by the governor, we have reached a stage this year where the primaries are moving up.

>> Right.

>> Which means even more of a deadline and more pressure on the count.

So where are we right now?

Are there deadlines built in where you and your fellow Superintendents and then the recorder need to really agree on something post haste in.

>> Well, and actually what the furor was in social media land, had to do with the selection of early voting sites.

It was misinterpreted as a voting plan or elections plan, it was not.

It was simply an invitation from us and our elections department, to participate if in the selection of sites for election day.

And crew the recorder's office for early in-person voting, which is his responsibility, according to statute.

>> Okay.

>> I am super happy to report that we met last Friday and we have med again this week, the recorder staff and our staff, I cannot say enough about Maricopa county staff, and we are finalizing early in-person voting sites along with our election sites.

>> So if we look behind the scenes, the staffs are working well together.

>> Yes.

>> That's why I bring back political posturing there is a tendency to grab for headlines as opposed to work done behind the scenes.

>> I can only speculate, but there certainly appears to be a tendency to do that.

We have very tight timelines as you pointed out because of the moved update.

And so we have been working very hard to ensure that we meet those deadlines and I think we are on track to do so.

>> Does the system work in the way it is right now and the way it's intended?

Because there is scott Jarret who essentially works for the Superintendents, works for the county, he is -- and then we have the county recorder who is an elected official.

Does the current system have the potential to work well and not have some of this unintended or maybe intended, but not productive in fighting in.

>> Well, what I can tell and you a lot of people don't know, we conducted four successful smaller elections last year from the C.B.

seven jurisdiction -- election and then also all county mail-in ballot elections.

So those staffs have worked together on four different elections.

This is our biggest challenge so far.

But we have very experienced election staff that know what they are doing.

The recorder has staff who are very experienced and know what they are doing.

And I can report that they are working together and I could not be more gratified.

>> And you are optimistic that things will get settled in time to run a smooth lex again?

>> Yes, absolutely.

And our board set a goal of voter experience being maximized, election results be trusted and maximum election integrity.

And that's the track we are on despite what happened in what I am calling twitter land or social media fantasy world.

>> But it does generate a lot of noise.

>> Yes.

>> And sometimes people listen to that noise.

I am wondering does it concern you from the standpoint that even if things are working well, us a fairly good machine that's going on here, and get there will be some people questioning things, saying, wait a second is the board of supervisors trying get away with something they are not trying to get away with does that concern you that there is that perception.

>> It always concerns me think a lot of people don't understand the difference between sound bites and governing.

I do.

And threats what we are focused O in our level at you county supervisors we implement county state law.

We know that, we are focused on that.

Yes, there is the political stuff out there.

But it's not something that I am focused on at the moment.

The cooperation is proceeding as it has in prior elections.

>> Forgive me for stick we can the political stuff for another moment.

>> Please.

>> Did you anticipate any of this?

And I ask it in this way, because in the past what Adrien Fontes was county recorder and the majority of the supervisors was Republican people expect some back and forth.

I don't know that people would have expected a Republican recorder, the majority.

Board is Republican, they'll probably got a long most of the time.

Did you anticipate maybe trouble was brewing?

>> Truly I did not know what to expect.

Because every elected official has their fiefdom.

Has their area of expertise and control.

I was concerned because Justin heap is brand-new at this job so it has taken some bumps and adjustments.

But voters come first.

And that is who we are focused on.

And they really, truly don't want to hear about it.

They just want the elections to work.

And that's what we are going to have happen.

>> We follow-up on the experience point of it.

Because you and your colleague supervisor Lesko have experience.

She was a member of congress, he shelves a mechanic of the state legislature, she has as well.

Is there a feeling that the two of you were coming together, and the rest of your colleagues the two of you were coming into the recorder office and saying we have experience, maybe we can talk about these things as opposed to being in the twitter verse?

Did you go forward to him or his office and say we want to work with you?

>> Well, that occurred that reaching out and it continues to occur even going back a couple of weeks when we adopted a resolution which iterated our three board policies.

This is what we intend to do.

You will be in charge of early in-person vote and statute like it says.

And we are in the process of separating our I.T.

systems, so the recorder has his part and we have our part.

And we are here to accommodate your budgetary requests as they come forward.

Right after that, we approved a $550 million allocation to the recorder to implement his new signature verification process.

We put our money where our mouth is, and we are focused on great elections.

>> I wish we had more time, supervisor Kate Brophy McGee, thank you for being here.

>> Thank you, appreciate it.

>> This past Olympics both the U.S.

American's and women's hockey teams brought hold gold med less but there were can't verdicts I over the levels of respect the men were given compared to the women.

Not the least of president trump implying he would be impeached if he didn't invite the women's team to the white house which resulted in laughter from the men's team.

Here to tell us more about this is Victoria Jackson, thanks for being here.

>> Thank you, Steve.

Before we get started, let's see the clip from president trump talking to the men's team.

>> What would really be cool, and we'll do the white house the next time we'll just have fun, we have med follows you guys, and we have -- I must tell you, we're going to have to bring the women's team, you do know that?

[ Laughter ] >> I do believe I probably would be impeached.

Okay.

[ Laughter ] >> Okay, so what's your first reaction to that?

We know President trump has his own way of speaking.

Some people were offended by the men's team laughing.

What did you make of all of this?

>> I mean, my heart went out to them, because they were put in a situation they did not create the situation.

And you heard the 2 for 2.

2 for 2.

>> Yeah.

>> Right.

This is a team that understood that they completed the sweep for the first time in history.

More so than any of what else we saw there.

>> So big picture.

When we think of the Olympics, people focus on the individual sports, there are obviously very important team sports here.

Is there a feeling that there is a growing respect for women athletes when it comes to Olympic sports generally?

But maybe we are still a learning curve when it comes to women in team sports.

>> I think this moment as an outlier.

I think these teams have equal respect for each other.

Hilary Knight, the captain of the women's team, that scored the goal to equalize it, so that they could win in overtime, this is her fifth Olympic medal.

>> Yeah.

>> I mean, there is a lot of respect for these athletes.

And, you know, we have generations now, the Olympic program is almost equitable.

And so we see that in the middle table.

Women are winning more medals than the men are as a result of them having the same number of events now.

And that's also kind of a product of the U.S.

being the place where the world comes to develop and train.

So all of these athletes know each other.

They are teammates on college teams, teammates in professional leagues.

That's on the men's side and especially on the women's side.

>> It almost -- and you mentioned this, it does seem like there is a mutual love and respect between the men's teams and women's teams.

Did you get a feel for how the women's team reacted to, again, going back to the clip we had, even though there is some as you said, 2 for 2.

Was there a feeling that the women would have reason to be offended by president trump p's approach?

>> I think fans of women's sports understandably, they want to protect the people they love and this is what we have seen time and time again.

Where it's not just that you go out and compete, you also have to create a learning experience out of it all.

And, you know, we have seen generations of athletes in women's sports take on the responsibility of educating public about the awesomeness of women in sports.

This is another one of those moments, I have already mentioned Hilary Knight she talked about how like, yeah, this is our responsibility.

We are used to it, this is what we do as athletes in women's sport.

We educate.

What we have seen in this case say number of members of the men's team saying We Wish we would not have reacted that we apologize, that's not who we are.

We also saw a kind of continuation -- this narrative is ongoing, "Saturday Night Live" and, you know, the star of "heated rivalry."

Connor story during his opening monologue has two of the Hugh brothers and megan Keller who scored the winner for the women's team and Hilary Knight there.

And the women made a joke about inviting the men along to the S.N.L.

appearance too.

>> I am glad you mentioned the hues brothers their mom is a former star hockey player.

>> Yeah, Ellen Hughes is a member of the coaching staff for the women's team.

So we have this really cool mother/daughter scenario.

She couldn't compete for the U.S.

in an Olympics because it wasn't on the program yet for women.

Like we are not far removed from this moment in history.

But now as a member of the coaching staff, she's earned an Olympic medal.

>> So big picture, when you would talk to toll young women in particular.

Is there something they can take away about from this knowing how important athletics is in your lives and how big an impact athletics can have on young women's lives as well.

There is a big picture there was a gold medal victory we should be focused on most of all.

Is there -- I don't want to come back to sexism.

If even we have this aspect of an overarching problem that comes to this sort of thing and how does it maybe evening their perception or self reliance that some young female athletes might feel in this circumstance?

>> There are so many different ways to see how we have hit kind of a pivot point in history when it comes to women's sports.

And I actually want to talk about women's sports media as may way of answering this it.

They became a protagonist in the winter Olympic games themselves.

And there was this great news story looking at all the different women's sports media outlets there covering the games.

Including Sarah Spain, who is the host of the first ever daily women's sports show.

The good game with Sarah Spain show.

And you know, I think that stuff matters.

Because it is naturalize and normalizing that we are all playing sports.

Like it's not men's sports and then the women came later.

Like we are all playing here now.

And with the Olympic program being equitable.

And the events offered almost, we are almost there.

We've got one more to add no Nordic combined.

But, yeah, I think this generation of young people who are growing up and being exposed to, you know, professional women's sports, college sports, at a level that is just excellent whether it comes to men's and women's sports.

Where I am very optimistic about the future.

Again, these are outlier moments.

These are relics of the past.

>> Very, very briefly.

Should we be optimistic about the 2028 Olympics and female athletes being more highly regarded and paid attention to.

>> Oh, yeah, the winter and Paralympic games coming to the U.S., with L.a.

being the host, this is the first tile L.A.

is hosting thinking as a historian, L.A.32 compared to L.A.

'84 when we had a lot of women's events add for the first time.

Joanie Samuelson winning the first women Alexander Olympics marathon L.A.

will be the place it comes to prudence.

>> Victoria Jackson, great to see you as always.

>> Thank you, Steve.

>> They were mostly farmers work we don't have a war society.

We have to transition into vague war society because of the enemies that were attacking us.

That's a new thing that came to us with the Americans.

This is a traditional war club made out of iron wood.

Iron wood is a very strong wood This is one of the old weapons and it was used by the bravest warriors because it's hand to hand.

It's close combat with a shield and war club.

There is a wheel ceremony behind warfare to take care of yourself.

And that's one of the things that was lacking during the American time is we lost that ceremony to take care of men that came back from war.

So we have a lot of men, evening in the modern wars where we are trying to regain a ceremony to take care of them, you know, clean them from what they have done and have them be good in the community again.

>> As teen mental health challenges and substance abuse continue to impact families across Arizona, one long time nonprofit is marking 25 years of prevention and education for both student and parents, joining me to talk about the organization's growth and mission is newly appointed CEO Sarah Grado of not my kid.

Thank you very much for being here.

>> Thanks for having me.

>> For those who may not know.

Let's review.

What is the focus of the organization?

Again 25 years is an important milestone.

But what has evolved.

What would you love to do better now?

>> Absolutely.

Not my kid was founded 20 knife years ago and our focus is prevention in behavioral health with teens.

It was founded out of a family's personal experience navigating their teenage son's edition when they were on the other side of that they looked back they were like we have the not my kid mentality.

We thought our kid has straight As and involved in sports so they founded the organization along with a psychologist to help other parents not say not my kid.

And actually have these conversations with your kid early.

It was a grassroots prevention organization and he has evolved over the past 25 years to become a statewide behavior health provider.

We do prevention and evolved to do early intervention and treatment for kids now.

>> Wow.

If you don't mind, would you give us a brief background of your experience and why this not my kid is so important to you even personally.

>> It is, I am very personally connected to the mission of wanting to ensure every kid thrives and we do that by inspiring positive life chases and using our own personal experiences.

So I actually came to the organization when I was until recovery as a young adult.

And I was inspired by the mission and I started by sharing my own story of recovery.

And so I would do a lot of presentations in schools, all over Arizona for many years.

Just trying to help kids know you are not alone.

If you felt this way, here is what you can do.

And then over those years, I have grown and just stayed with the organization.

And now I am a parent of teenagers.

And so as I have grown in my role in the organization, and most recently stepped in into this CEO really am excited to lead this team and to be able to provide services to this next generation of parents.

Because I am right there with them.

And I understand how difficult it is in the world we are living in today and that there is help and hope out there.

>> Wow.

So mental health challenges.

I will sound lake a middle aged man, which I am.

How much of that is caused by social media, cyber bullying or people wanting to give a certain impression online?

There are so many good things about social media, about you when it comes to mental health of young people, how much is it a complication?

>> It is.

And I think we are seeing more and more now.

We have been trying to make that connection for a while.

But I think just recently, more eyes are opening up of how it truly is impacting our kids, whether it's social media.

Just screens in general having a telephone or a phone device where they are constantly receiving notifications, there is a big impact that we see on teen mental health.

A lot of the teens that we work with that are struggling with depression or anxiety.

Their phones or social media are directly connected to some of these toxic messaging that they are getting.

Some of the peers or peer influences.

The exposure to graphic images, inappropriate content or just connections to substance many people don't know, but teens actually can buy and acquire drugs on social media platforms, like snap chat, and so it's this new age that parents these days are having to navigate and a lot of it does center around devices and so we are doing a lot of education right now around technology and A.I., and how teens are using A.I.

to work through their mental health and how dangerous that can be.

And so that's a big part of our conversation right now.

>> Sarah, I just have a few second, this is a big question, but I need you to be fairly short with the answer.

Can we object optimistic when organizations like not my kid helping kids and helping families avoid these pitfalls?

>> Do you feel good we are moving in the right directs?

>> I do.

There is so much that we can do And that's why we exist.

We are here to help parents, there are solutions if they go to notmykid.org they can get access to tools and resources.

>> Sarah Grado of not my kid.

Thanks so much for being here.

>> That's all for this edition of "Arizona Horizon", I am Steve Goldstein in to Ted Simons, thank you so much for watching.

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