New Lawmaker Profile: Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake

NOTE: This is one of a series of biographical sketches Cronkite News Service is producing about new members of the Arizona State Legislature. Each follows this format and includes a mugshot.

_ Name: Sylvia Allen
_ Chamber: Senate
_ Party: Republican
_ Profession: Real estate agent
_ Hometown: Snowflake
_ Legislative District: No. 5, which includes Navajo and Apache beyond the Navajo Nation and Greenlee, Graham and Gila counties.
_ Committee Assignments: Appropriations; Education Accountability and Reform; Natural Resources, Infrastructure and Public Debt; Retirement and Rural Development; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Welfare
_ Previous or Current Elected Offices: None.
_ Highlights of Community Involvement: People for the West, Southwest field coordinator.
_ Why She Ran: “I’m concerned at the direction our country is going. I think we’ve lost the founding principles that once made us a great nation that allowed for the greatest amount of personal individual freedom.”
_ Her Focus: “To create more freedom in our state to be able to get our economy up and running by getting rid of excessive taxes and regulations that are holding us back and holding us down.”
_ A Bill: SB 1147 would bar the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality from adopting or enforcing a state or regional program regulating greenhouse gas emissions without authorization from the Legislature.

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    Reporting by Steven Falkenhagen, Cronkite News Service

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Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake