Lorena Austin & Jacob Martinez

Dangerously Liberal
Radically Leftist
Wrong for State Representative

Liberal Lorena Austin

In just four years in the Arizona House of Representatives, liberal Lorena Austin has shown her true colors. Austin voted to protect doctors who perform harmful trans procedures on minors.¹ Austin voted against funding law enforcement.² And Austin voted against a host of tax cuts, including on income, tips, overtime, groceries, and gas.⁶

Leftist Jacob Martinez

Austin’s potential seatmate is just as extreme. He’s described himself as an “Antifa employee of the month,”⁷claims to have been an advisor to Nancy Pelosi,⁸ and fully supports discriminatory DEI practices.⁹

Crazy in the Classroom

Austin voted against expanding the Arizona Teachers Academy, which empowers teachers-in-training to pay off their college debt.¹¹

Martinez believes transgender men should be allowed to play in girls’ sports and that men should be allowed to use girls’ locker rooms.¹² He even opposes investing in more School Resource Officers to increase school safety.¹⁵

Anti-Public Safety Radicals

Austin and Martinez put their anti-police stances before the safety of you and your family.

In the Legislature, Austin repeatedly opposed efforts to fund law enforcement needs, including ballistic shields², dispatch upgrades³, training simulators⁴, and other public safety equipment. Austin’s vote against an effort to prevent municipal police budget cuts⁵ makes sense when you learn she was endorsed by Indivisible, the radical group that supports defunding our police and border patrol.¹⁸

Martinez supported a proposal to ‘send crisis counselors, instead of police officers, to 911 calls,’¹⁶ and supported the prosecution of Daniel Penny – the New York Good Samaritan protecting subway passengers from a dangerous homeless man.¹⁷

Endorsed by Bernie Sanders

Radical Policies. Endorsed by Socialists. Wrong for Amerca.

Say No to Lorena Austin and Jacob Martinez for State Representative!

CITATIONS

1. Senate Bill 1095, Arizona House, 6/9/26 (Austin Nay). Center Square, 1/22/26. https://www.thecentersquare.com/arizona/article_50163f9e-9b58-45aa-82a8-3f75430a9e4b.html

1a. Austin, KPNX Sunday Square Off, 4/9/23, 03:55: “I don’t really fit into … these boxes of male or female.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnq96ouMZrM

2. House Bill 2930, House Public Safety, 2/20/25 (Austin Present). Ballistic shields. https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1R/summary/H.HB2930_021725_PSLE.pdf

3. House Bill 2455, 3/5/25 (Austin Nay) — dispatch. https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1R/summary/H.HB2455_021125_HOUSEENGROSSED.pdf

4. Senate Bill 1368, 3/24/25 (Austin Nay) — simulators. https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1R/summary/H.SB1368_031825_PSLE.pdf

5. House Bill 2221, Arizona House, 2/12/25 and 5/6/25 (Austin Nay). Courthouse News, 1/27/25. https://courthousenews.com/arizona-house-committee-moves-to-prevent-police-budget-cuts/

5a. Austin, House Public Safety, 3/9/26, 01:11:25: ICE cooperation “is disturbing.” https://www.azleg.gov/videoplayer/?clientID=6361162879&eventID=2026031022

6. Senate Bill 1106, Arizona House, 1/15/26 (Nay). Matthew Holloway, “Arizona GOP Lawmakers Send $1.1 Billion Tax Relief Package To Hobbs’ Desk,” AZ Free News, 1/15/26. https://azfreenews.com/2026/01/arizona-gop-lawmakers-send-small-business-supported-1-1-billion-tax-relief-package-to-hobbs-desk/ — “deliver approximately $1.1 billion in tax relief.” Zachery Schmidt, The Center Square, 1/9/26: “remove taxes on tips and overtime pay.” https://www.thecentersquare.com/arizona/article_340e494a-ae72-45aa-82a8-3f75430a9e4b.html

Named roll call: Simacek, Volk, Austin, and Sandoval among the 27 Nays (31-27-2). FastDemocracy, 1/15/26. https://fastdemocracy.com/bill-search/az/57th-2nd-regular/bills/AZB00020121/

Hobbs veto, 1/16/26. “Hobbs vetoes $1.1 billion GOP tax cut plan,” KTAR. https://ktar.com/arizona-politics-news/hobbs-veto-gop-tax-cuts/5807977/ Senate fact sheet lists tips and overtime subtractions. https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/2R/summary/S.1106-2153FIN_VETOED.DOCX.htm

House Bill 2785, Arizona House, 2/11/26 (Nay). Linley Wilson, Holtzman Vogel, 2/3/26. https://www.holtzmanvogel.com/news-insights/tax-relief-or-tax-chaos-why-every-arizonan-should-care-about-hb-2785 — exempts qualified tips and overtime from state income tax.

GOP House budget / taxation omnibus, Arizona House, 4/29/26 (Nay). Manuelita Beck, ABC15, 5/5/26. https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/gov-katie-hobbs-vetoes-republican-proposed-state-budget — package would have added deductions on tips and overtime.

House Concurrent Resolution 2021, Arizona House, 3/4/25 (Nay). Jakob Thorington, Arizona Capitol Times, 2/14/25. https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2025/02/14/compromise-in-the-works-on-banning-tax-on-food/ — prohibit sales tax on food for home consumption.

House Bill 2400, Arizona House third reading, 2/24/26, 32-24-4. FastDemocracy named Nays include Stephanie Simacek, Kevin Volk, Lorena Austin, and Mariana Sandoval. https://fastdemocracy.com/bill-search/az/57th-2nd-regular/bills/AZB00020491/

Bill text suspends the 18-cent-per-gallon motor-fuel tax May 1–Sept. 30 in Area A/C and backfills $72.6 million from HURF. https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/2R/bills/HB2400P.htm Arizona Globe: summer gas-tax holiday passed 32-24 without the emergency supermajority. https://arizonaglobe.com/state-senate/willoughby-biasiucci-fuel-bills-delayed-for-supermajority-miss/

7. Jacob Martinez, Twitter, 8/2/20. https://x.com/JacobDMartinez/status/1290148448583344131 — “Just won ANTIFA employee of the month!”

8. Jacob Martinez Twitter bio archive, 2/11/21. https://web.archive.org/web/20210211204310/https:/twitter.com/JacobDMartinez/status/1359966177045274624 — “@SpeakerPelosi Advisor.”

9. Maya Dominguez, Arizona State Law Journal, 3/20/25. https://arizonastatelawjournal.org/2025/03/20/department-of-education-banishing-segregation-or-community/ — Martinez on DOE “attacks on groups on campus meant to foster inclusivity.”

11. House Bill 2018, 2/11/25 (Austin Nay). KJZZ, 1/23/25. https://www.kjzz.org/politics/2025-01-23/should-private-universities-use-public-money-to-address-arizonas-teacher-shortage/

12. Martinez Twitter, 7/9/20. https://x.com/JacobDMartinez/status/1281427425591619584 — “Transgender women are women.”

13. Martinez Twitter, 3/3/20. https://x.com/JacobDMartinez/status/1235037787490930688 — HB2706 “bans transgender girls from playing on sports teams … transphobic.”

14. Martinez Twitter, 4/28/23. https://x.com/JacobDMartinez/status/1652008032673603585 — “Great work Peoria” after preferred-bathroom use. 5/5/23: “We’re meant to serve everyone.”

15. KTVK Politics Unplugged, 3/18/18, 01:15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GrM3-Gk9SY — Martinez: “counselors and psychologists on school campuses and not more SROs like the governor has proposed.”

16. Martinez Twitter, 3/16/21. https://x.com/JacobDMartinez/status/1372059973501390852 — “How is this bad Kelli” on crisis counselors instead of police to 911 calls.

17. Martinez Twitter, 12/9/24. https://x.com/JacobDMartinez/status/1866222811330875428 — after Penny acquittal: “Weird for you think people can just be killed on the subway.”

18. Indivisible 2020 defund essay. https://indivisibleteam.medium.com/why-we-say-defund-the-police-109fc6ec196d

18a. Indivisible Sedona endorsement of Lorena Austin (LD9). Blue Voter Guide. https://bluevoterguide.org/endorser-org/Indivisible_Sedona_After_the_March/AZ/6724

19. Martinez Facebook, 5/15/26. https://www.facebook.com/MartinezForAriz/posts/pfbid0TmbumdWtVhi9rV598F9SSgxYmrPKrLFo9ideAhV5H5298nbAb5Gwxj3mWE5yFr3Yl — “incredibly grateful to be endorsed by Senator Bernie Sanders.”

19a. Arizona Daily Independent, 6/12/26: Sanders AZ list includes Martinez, Austin, and Sandoval — not Cortez. https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2026/06/12/bernie-sanders-endorses-arizona-lawmakers/