AZ Political Podcast: Tom Horne responds to opponent Kimberly Yee’s comments

This week on the AZ Political Podcast, Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne joined me to respond to a jab from his Republican primary opponent, Kimberly Yee.

For context, in a previous episode, Yee suggested he might be too old for the job.

In response, Horne laid out what he says is his weekly exercise regimen: 40 minutes on a Stairmaster, seven days a week. (Whew!)

“I’m sure she can’t do that,” Horne said of Yee. Then I joked that we should stage an exercise battle between the two of them on a future episode.

Despite my assurances that it would rack up mega-views on YouTube, Horne politely declined.

So I guess we’ll just have to wait and see them battle it out on August 4, 2026 — the date of Arizona’s primary election — or in a future debate.

Unless … hmm … unless we could convince the Citizens Clean Elections Commission to host their debate on Stairmasters?

Alright, State Superintendent Tom Horne and I did talk about some serious issues like:

• Why Arizona lags so far behind most of the country in several key education metrics
• What we can do to address the teacher shortage
• Why we haven’t seen the expected results from our state’s robust school choice system — namely, the improvement of all schools that was supposed to be driven by the competition dynamic marketplaces create.

I just wish I could’ve talked him into a competition of dynamic exercising.

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