Kimberly Yee
Coverage of Kimberly Yee in the Nexus archive.
- Voucher oversight fight tilts GOP superintendent primary toward Kimberly Yee over Tom Horne
Kimberly Yee leads Tom Horne in the GOP primary for Arizona's Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the race centered on oversight of the state's school voucher program. Yee, a former state treasurer, aims to unseat Horne, an 81-year-old incumbent. The winner will face Democrat Teresa Leyba Ruiz in November.
- Racism doesn’t hide in Arizona’s GOP. It’s a campaign strategy.
Racist attacks against Arizona Republicans Kimberly Yee and Quang Nguyen highlight a campaign strategy within the GOP. An ad portraying Yee as the 'Empress of DEI' with Chinese imagery and music was used to undermine her, while Tyler Bowyer of Turning Point USA engaged in a racist exchange with Nguyen.
- Kimberly Yee says Tom Horne’s voucher program is ‘complete chaos.’ Horne says Yee backed DEI.
Kimberly Yee criticized Tom Horne's school voucher program as 'complete chaos,' while Horne accused Yee of supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Both candidates, running in the Arizona Republican primary for Superintendent of Public Instruction, exchanged allegations during a debate, with Horne claiming Yee wanted to allow parents to use taxpayer funds for luxury purchases and Yee denying any DEI committee membership.