Sylvia Allen
Sylvia Allen | |
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Member of the Arizona Senate from the 6th district | |
Assumed office January 5, 2015 | |
Preceded by | Alice Crandell |
Member of the Arizona Senate from the 5th district | |
In office June 2008 – January 2012 | |
Preceded by | Jake Flake |
Succeeded by | Chester Crandell (renumbered district 6) |
Personal details | |
Born |
Phoenix, Arizona | April 2, 1947
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Richard Allen |
Children | 5 |
Residence | Snowflake, Arizona |
Profession | Small business owner, real estate agent |
Religion | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) |
Website | Senate Website |
Sylvia Tenney Allen (born April 2, 1947) is an American politician from Arizona. She is a Republican member of the Arizona State Senate where she is President pro tempore.[1] Allen is also a proponent of the chemtrail conspiracy theory.[2]
Career
She served as a Navajo County Supervisor. A Republican party activist, in 2008 she was appointed to the Arizona State Senate following the death of Senator Jake Flake.[3] A resident of Snowflake, Arizona, she first represented the 5th legislative district.[4]
Following her appointment, she was elected in her own right in 2008.[1] In the 2009–10 legislature, she was a member of four standing committees: Appropriations; Education Accountability and Reform; Natural Resources, Infrastructure and Public Debt; and the Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Welfare. She served as chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Welfare for the Arizona Senate.[5]
Senator Allen was a sponsor of a 2012 bill, SB 1127, that introduced shared parenting to Arizona.[6][7]
After redistricting, Allen was elected to the Arizona State Senate District 6 seat in 2014, taking office on January 5, 2015. Her current term ends January 1, 2017. In the 2015 legislative session Allen served on the Appropriations, Education, Government (Vice-Chair), Rural Affairs and Environment (Chair), Rules, Water and Energy (Vice-Chair) committees. She was selected by her caucus as President Pro tem.[1][8]
Controversies
During her tenure as a county supervisor, Allen was said to have attempted to interfere with an internal investigation into the conduct of her son-in-law, a detention officer, with female inmates in the Navajo County jail, where he worked. K.C. Clark, the Navajo County Sheriff, threatened to arrest her if she continued to interfere.[9] In March 2015, Allen filed a senate bill that would provide detention officers, like her son-in-law, with greater protections from disciplinary investigations.[9]
Speaking at a June 2009 Rural Development and Retirement Committee hearing regarding a uranium mine, Allen said the world was "6,000 years old."[10]
During a March 2015 Senate committee hearing on a bill that would relax concealed carry restrictions pertaining to public buildings, Allen, a member of the LDS Church, suggested that attending Sunday church services should be compulsory for Americans.[11][12] Arizona state senate Democrat Steve Farley argued that even if church attendance might prove beneficial for society at large, Allen's proposal was a clear violation of separation of church and state laws,[13] including the First Amendment to the US Constitution.[14]
References
- 1 2 3 "Sylvia Allen". Ballotpedia. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ↑ "Sylvia T. Allen Facebook". 2016. Retrieved January 5, 2016.
- ↑ "Allen sworn in as state senator replacing Flake". The Arizona Republic. AP. June 17, 2008. Retrieved March 31, 2015.
- ↑ "Sylvia Allen: District 5". Arizona State Legislature. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ↑ "Sylvia Allen's Biography". Project Vote Smart. 2015. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
- ↑ "Professor instrumental in passage of groundbreaking divorce law". Arizona State University. 2012. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
- ↑ "Real World Divorce: Arizona". Real World Divorce. 2015. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
- ↑ "Sylvia Allen: District 6". Arizona State Legislature. 2015. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- 1 2 "Senator files bill after son-in-law lands in hot water". azcentral. March 19, 2015. Retrieved March 27, 2015.
- ↑ Sen. Sylvia Allen ridiculed for Earth remark, The Arizona Republic, July 11, 2009. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ↑ Stout, Steve (March 26, 2015). "AZ Senator: Church attendance should be mandatory". kpho.com. Retrieved March 27, 2015.
- ↑ "Sen. Allen would make church mandatory. God help us.". azcentral. March 26, 2015. Retrieved March 27, 2015.
- ↑ Bruinius, Harry (March 27, 2015). "Sen. Sylvia Allen: Would 'mandatory church' lead to 'moral rebirth'?". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved March 28, 2008.
- ↑ Suhay, Lisa (March 27, 2015). "Why Arizona senator's mandatory church suggestion wouldn't fly". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved March 28, 2008.
External links
- Senator Sylvia Allen - District 6 official State Senate website
- Sylvia Allen for State Senator official campaign website
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