association today announced its endorsement of former Chino Valley Mayor Karen Fann for election to
the open Legislative District 1 seat in the Arizona House of Representatives.
“Karen Fann has a fundamental appreciation of the fact that small businesses are not smaller versions of big businesses, but instead have distinctively different difficulties in remaining solvent,” said Farrell
Quinlan, NFIB/Arizona state director, who listed taxes (more than 80 percent of small business owners
are single filers, meaning personal, not corporate, tax rates matter more to them), healthcare (less than half of small business owners in America can afford it), and regulations (small business owners pay almost twice as much to comply with the same regulation as big businesses do) as the three biggest differences.
“Karen Fann has been a small business owner for over 25 years employing 40 Arizonans. She knows first hand the challenges confronting job creators regarding government regulations; labor issues; healthcare and the tax burden. Arizona needs more lawmakers like Karen Fann who know how jobs are created in Arizona’s economy.”
Endorsements of non-incumbents were based on answers provided on a candidate questionnaire
developed by the 7,500-member-strong NFIB/Arizona.
The political clout of small business is more influential than most people know:
- In April, the Pew Research Center released a study on the negative and positive views people hold on various American institutions. Small business came out first, 39 percentage points higher than labor unions, 46 points higher than large corporations, and 49 points higher than banks and financial institutions.
- Small business owners comprise 15 percent of all registered voters in the U.S., by comparison
union voters make up 11.9 percent. When small business employees are added, the small business
voting bloc swells to 43 percent. - The most common public affairs and political activities in which small employers engage,
according to the NFIB Research Foundation, include initiating discussions with employees
regarding the impact of a policy issue on the firm. - Voters prefer candidates supported by small business by a margin of 3 to 1 over those supported by organized labor, according to the Winston Group.
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NFIB is the nation’s leading small-business advocacy association, with offices in Washington, D.C. and all 50 state capitals. Founded in 1943 as a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, NFIB gives small- and independent-business owners a voice in shaping the public policy issues that affect their business. NFIB’s powerful network of grassroots activists send their views directly to state and federal lawmakers through our unique member-only ballot, thus playing a critical role in supporting America’s free enterprise system. NFIB’s mission is to promote and protect the right of our members to own, operate and grow their businesses. More information about NFIB is available online at
www.NFIB.com/newsroom