Bradshaw, Ari

Running For:

State House

District:

2

Political Affiliation:

Republican

Phone:

(480) 310-9042

Age:

26

Occupation:

Small Business Owner (Marketing/Tech and Music)

Education:

Vanderbilt University

Religion:

Jewish

Biographical Info:

I am a 4th generation Arizonan who was born and raised in Phoenix. I was raised in a single mother household as my father shot himself in front of my sister and me when I was 13 years old. He had suffered from opioid addiction, and shortly after his death I lost my cousin to a heroin overdose. I am a product of school choice, having received a scholarship to Phoenix Country Day School, which I began attending when I was in 8th grade. With peers at this school, I was an early co-founder of Ink4Kidz, a charity which raised dozens of thousands of dollars for underprivileged schools and orphanages in the Phoenix metro area. I was involved in the Phoenix Sister Cities organization, becoming Vice Chairman of our Prague committee and the Chairman of another internal PSC committee. I went to Vanderbilt University on a full scholarship, studying language, and graduated with two businesses to my name I had founded while living in the back of my cousin’s trailer over the summer of 2020. I was the President of North Valley Young Republicans for two years, the largest AZYR regional club up until the organization split into three successors in 2023. Additionally, I worked with Speaker Ben Toma after 28 State House Representatives signed a paper asking him to work with me on the Arizona Majority media project which received over 900,000 organic impressions over the course of the few months the project was active.

Statement:

I don’t want to wake up in 20 years and have to tell my children or future grandchildren that we have to move because we didn’t stop what I saw coming down the pipeline in Arizona. Our First and Second amendment rights are at risk of being taken away – and Jews in particular are quickly being targeted by increasingly radical activists on both sides of the aisle. I believe that we must have a new generation of Republican politicians to prevent our party from going extinct while bringing our conservative values to a new generation by focusing on the issues which matter most to them – the economy, homeownership, education, the environment, and safety. I agree with my teammate Shawnna Bolick that school choice is the civil rights issue of our generation and I believe that the scholarships I received in high school and university were key parts of my upbringing and helping me avoid falling into abject poverty. As a small business owner whose primary business relies upon the success of other small businesses in our local community, I have a vested interest in seeing Arizona as the best place in the world to raise a family, run a business, and receive an education. I lost my father and my cousin to opioid issues and I believe we must have people in office who are going to address the issue from both the legal and illegal sides of it while offering sincere solutions and options to victims afflicted.

Endorsements:

National Federation of Independent Business AZ (NFIB), AZ Women of Action, AZ Free Enterprise Club, AZ Chamber of Commerce, Greater Phoenix Chamber, Arizona Troopers Association, Center for Arizona Policy Action