State Sen. Could Primary Gallego in 2018

State Sen. Cath­er­ine Mir­anda (D) “is gear­ing up to run for something, and all signs point to a fight with her nemes­is,” Rep. Ruben Gal­lego (D-AZ 07). “Mir­anda vs. Gal­lego would bring up polit­ic­al wounds among the old guard in His­pan­ic polit­ics. Gal­lego’s race against former Mari­copa County Su­per­visor Mary Rose Wil­cox split the Latino polit­ic­al es­tab­lish­ment.” Mir­anda, who said she’s keep­ing her op­tions open, backed Gov. Doug Ducey (R) in his gubernat­ori­al bid over a fel­low Demo­crat and his friends could provide fin­an­cial help if she does de­cide to run. (Ari­zona Re­pub­lic)