“Be foolish not to reach out to folks who had been successful, who had applied in the past, to see how they had answered some of the questions.”

Grant Woods said that if he ran for the Senate seat, he could expect to face “a big-time, expensive, competitive primary.”

Representative Nancy Barto, the Republican chair of the committee, called the issue “long overdue.”

“This is voter suppression,” said Senator Lisa Otondo, a Democratic lawmaker from Yuma.

The tough questions arrived during the audience Q&A portion of the event: “Please explain to me why you feel you can’t run as a Democrat.”

“I don’t think that what’s been put in front of us is insurmountable,” said Thomas Saenz, the president and general counsel for MALDEF.

Jeff Flake on CBS: “I will not be a candidate.”

Republicans say the allegations against Stringer should face an Ethics Committee.

A Republican from Prescott, Stringer faced calls for his resignation from officials including the governor and the state GOP chairman.

Rep. David Stringer claimed he merely chose the wrong words when he told a group of students that African-Americans “don’t blend in.”

Governor Doug Ducey pledged that his budget would include “enough dollars to put a cop on every campus that needs one.”

“How I dress, what I wear, my sexual preference has nothing to do with my work ethic and how I perform at my job.”

The resolution says that all voters in Arizona have the right to vote without facing unnecessary barriers.