Karen Peters (Arizona)
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Karen Peters ran for election to the Central Arizona Water Conservation District Maricopa County. She lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Peters completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2022
See also: Municipal elections in Maricopa County, Arizona (2022)
General election
General election for Central Arizona Water Conservation District Maricopa County (5 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Central Arizona Water Conservation District Maricopa County on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Alexandra Arboleda (Nonpartisan) | 10.0 | 442,288 | |
| ✔ | Amanda Monize (Nonpartisan) | 9.5 | 418,499 | |
| ✔ | Ben Graff (Nonpartisan) | 9.4 | 415,256 | |
| ✔ |  | Ylenia Aguilar (Nonpartisan) | 8.7 | 386,105 |
| ✔ | Barbara Seago (Nonpartisan) | 8.1 | 356,023 | |
| Donovan Neese (Nonpartisan) | 8.0 | 352,339 | ||
| Jim Pederson (Nonpartisan) | 7.5 | 331,572 | ||
 | Karen Peters (Nonpartisan)  | 7.3 | 322,232 | |
| Jason Lundgren (Nonpartisan) | 7.2 | 319,228 | ||
| Alan Dulaney (Nonpartisan) | 6.6 | 292,502 | ||
| Lisa Bullington (Nonpartisan) | 5.8 | 254,236 | ||
| Shelby Duplessis (Nonpartisan) | 4.5 | 200,309 | ||
 | Cory Mishkin (Nonpartisan) | 3.7 | 163,022 | |
 | Daniel Cirignani Wood (Nonpartisan) | 3.4 | 149,447 | |
| Sam Hales (Nonpartisan) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 313 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 12,267 | ||
| Total votes: 4,415,638 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Karen Peters completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Peters' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am an Arizona lawyer and city administrator with over 30 years experience on water issues. My family came to Arizona in the 1970s so I've seen the tremendous economic growth of Maricopa County first-hand. I earned my undergraduate degree at Arizona State University, then left the state for law school in Washington DC - but I returned home to Arizona's sunshine and open spaces to start my career and family. My husband and I are parents to three adult sons and live in Phoenix with three ill-behaved dogs. In my private law practice I focused on water and environmental issues, as well as energy and municipal finance.. I negotiated and wrote state laws and regulations and worked with a broad range of stakeholders. In my current role in city executive leadership I am responsible for a number of departments including water, wastewater, and solid waste utilities, and recently lead efforts to develop policy plans for transportation electrification and climate action. I have experience with rate setting, budget development, and complex infrastructure. My approach to issues is to listen first, do my homework, and collaborate to get to resolution. I'm patient and calm under pressure. I love great food, great books, and the great outdoors - and I'm ready to take on the tough issues that face Arizona and the West to secure our water future.
- The time is now to collaborate and find permanent solutions to the crisis on the Colorado River. 40 million people across the West depend on the River - it is essential to our economy and quality of life. Unfortunately, overallocation, drought and climate change are depleting the River's flows, likely permanently. Big changes are needed to adapt to the new normal. I know the issues and can ask the tough questions. There is no time for on the job training.
- Cuts to Colorado River supplies will have financial impacts on the Central Arizona Project and its customers, including industry, cities and towns, and tribal communities. These cuts have already dramatically affected agriculture in central Arizona. The CAWCD Board needs to carefully consider spending and revenue decisions to avoid or mitigate rate shock as much as possible. All options need to be on the table - CAWCD can't do this alone. I've done this work on behalf of other utilities and can bring that experience to the CAWCD Board for the benefit of taxpayers in the district and the district's water customers.
- The CAP infrastructure is getting old and will need major rehab and maintenance in coming years. The CAP system is also the biggest user of electricity in Arizona. While CAWCD deals with the financial stresses of reduced flows in the canal it also needs to be planning and budgeting for the basic work of keeping it running, reliably, affordably, and sustainably.. CAWCD needs to communicate clearly with the federal government, its customers and the community at large about these challenges.
I care deeply about the world we leave to our children and grandchildren. I want them to enjoy equitable access to clean water, clean air, healthy and safe neighborhoods, and the economic security to raise their families and have great quality of life. I'm a believer in addressing root causes rather than symptoms and short term fixes. It's much more economically efficient and, if communicated clearly, likely to gain greater community support. The root causes of the current crisis include unsustainable water use, unsustainable use of fossil fuels for transportation and generation of electricity, land use decisions that preclude local food production and adequate affordable housing, inequiable access to quality affordable education and health care, to name a few. As communities, we need to get educated and hold our leaders to account to addressing these problems and taking the long view.
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See also
2022 Elections
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