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PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Supporters of Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs are ramping up political pressure on her Republican opponent, Rep. Andy Biggs, ahead of the upcoming election.
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The Democratic Governors Association (DGA) is leading the latest charge, accusing Biggs of voting to protect child predators.
On Monday, the DGA issued a press release citing a report from progressive organization “Meidas Touch,” along with a headline that read in part, “Andy Biggs Has A Bizarre History of Protecting Child Predators.”
Two of the accusations focus on specific committee votes taken 18 years apart — one during his tenure in the Arizona State House and another in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The first vote in question occurred in 2007 while Biggs was serving as a state representative.
At the time, the Arizona Legislature was considering Senate Bill 1268, a measure titled “Sex Trafficking; Child Prostitution.” The bill aimed to significantly boost criminal penalties for sex predators caught preying on children.
It had already passed the State Senate unanimously and appeared to be on track for similar bipartisan support in the House until it reached the committee panel featuring Biggs.
Biggs was the lone lawmaker in the entire legislature to object to the bill during the committee vote.
While Biggs acknowledged during the hearing that it was “an important bill” and “an important policy,” he voiced strong objections to some of the proposed amendments, questioning the legislative process.
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“It just seems to me highly illogical to insist that inconsistent amendments be passed and placed on a bill and then vote on a bill that you know is going to die because you want to make a political point rather than advance good policy,” Biggs said at the time.
SB 1268 never became law that year and was never brought to a vote before the full House of Representatives.
The second vote highlighted by critics took place 18 years later in 2025.
Biggs, now serving in Congress, was sitting on a congressional subcommittee when lawmakers voted on a motion to subpoena Department of Justice records related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein, who died by suicide in federal custody in 2019, had faced federal sex trafficking charges involving victims as young as 14.
During the committee vote, Biggs was in the minority, becoming one of only two congressmen to vote against releasing the Epstein DOJ records. Unlike his detailed explanation during the state legislative vote 18 years prior, Biggs offered no immediate public explanation in committee.
Video of the committee vote shows the clerk recording him as voting “no.”
However, following the committee vote, Biggs did join his colleagues on the House floor to vote in favor of releasing the Epstein files to the public.
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