Project 2025 Aligned Mega-Donors Bankroll Arizona GOP’s Effort to Hold Legislature

New campaign finance reports show hard-right mega-donors dumping cash into Republican down-ballot races

ARIZONA – Outraised in every single battleground district in this year’s second quarter, new campaign finance reports show down-ballot Republicans in tight races receiving a new influx of cash from Project 2025-aligned mega-donors Randy and Ken Kendrick in the third and final fundraising quarter.

Randy Kendrick is a board member of the Goldwater Institute, a fellow of which was mentioned as a contributor to Project 2025. Kendrick is also the chair of Judicial Independence Defense PAC, a dark money group working to retain the Arizona Supreme Court justices who ruled in favor of the draconian 1864 abortion ban. Randy Kendrick’s husband, Ken, is the owner of the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Across competitive legislative districts, Randy, Ken, and their son Cal Kendrick poured in:

• LD2

  • $5,400 to state senate candidate Shawnna Bolick

• LD4

  • $5,400 to state senate candidate Carine Werner

• LD9

  • $10,800 to state senate candidate Robert Scantlebury 

  • $10,800 to state house candidate Mary Ann Mendoza

• LD13

  • $16,200 to state senate candidate J.D. Mesnard

• LD17

  • $10,800 to state senate candidate Vince Leach 

  • $10,900 to state house candidate Rachel Jones

  • $16,000 to state house candidate Cory McGarr

• LD23

  • $16,200 to state house candidate Michele Peña