Arizona Senate Majority Leader Janae Shamp, R-Surprise, criticized Gov. Katie Hobbs this week after the Democrat vetoed a bill that would have outlawed Chinese land ownership in Arizona.
Senate Bill 1109 would have banned China from buying, owning or acquiring land in the state. Shamp introduced the legislation.
During legislative hearings, Shamp said she introduced SB 1109 due to growing threats of China buying land near “critical infrastructure, military bases and sensitive corporate areas.”
She added that these land acquisitions serve a purpose for China, which is to surveil and collect data on people who manage sensitive assets and items.
She called Hobbs a “total disgrace.”
Arizona’s future “is in jeopardy” as “long as she continues on this trajectory," Shamp added.
A gubernatorial candidate who may face Hobbs in the November 2026 general election also did not react well to this veto.
