Frank Riggs, a former Republican congressman from northern California, is going to try his hand at running for elected office in Arizona with a campaign for governor.
Riggs, 63, said he planned to file paperwork for an exploratory committee on Wednesday afternoon. The former congressman said he considered running against then-Gov. Janet Napolitano in 2006 until learning that he fell short of the five-year residency requirement to run for the office.
“I’m definitely running. I’ve made that commitment to a core group of very good people,” Riggs said.
Riggs served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 1993, and again from 1995 to 1999. During his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, Riggs was an advocate for charter schools, sponsoring the Charter School Expansion Act of 1998, and was part of the Gang of Seven, a group of GOP representatives were strongly critical of House banking and Congressional Post Office scandals of the early 1990s.
He moved to Arizona in 2002 and spent most of the past decade running the Charter Schools Development Corporation, a nonprofit that provides financial services for charter schools. He current runs a for-profit company called Duncan Development Consulting, which provides similar services. Read More-Arizona Capital Times
