Risa Lombardo - Ballotpedia

Risa Lombardo is a first-time candidate for political office.

2026 Arizona General Election

Social Justice
Falling wages and rising bills are hitting most of us, and the most vulnerable are hit the hardest. We demand a living wage and a real safety net.

Issues – Risa Lombardo For Arizona

6. Community-Based Economics
We support redesigning our work structures to encourage employee ownership and workplace democracy. We support developing new economic activities and institutions that allow us to use technology in ways that are humane, freeing, ecological, and responsive and accountable to communities.

6. Community-Based Economics
We support redesigning our work structures to encourage employee ownership and workplace democracy. We support developing new economic activities and institutions that allow us to use technology in ways that are humane, freeing, ecological, and responsive and accountable to communities. We support establishing a form of basic economic security open to all.

We support restructuring our patterns of income distribution to reflect the wealth created by those outside the formal monetary economy – those who take responsibility for parenting, housekeeping, home gardens, community volunteer work, and the like. We support restricting the size and concentrated power of corporations without discouraging superior efficiency or technological innovation.

Demands a living wage and a social safety net.

Supports redesigning work structures to encourage employee ownership and workplace democracy.

Supports establishing a form of basic economic security available to everyone.

Supports limiting corporate size and concentrated corporate power while preserving efficiency and technological innovation.

- Demands a living wage and a social safety net.
- Supports redesigning work structures to encourage employee ownership and workplace democracy.
- Supports establishing a form of basic economic security available to everyone.
- Supports limiting corporate size and concentrated corporate power while preserving efficiency and technological innovation.

Economy

As of August 26, 2026, Risa Lombardo’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Education

Peace
Our country's long wars and worldwide military presence are immoral and unsustainable. Our military budget must be cut dramatically.

4. Non-Violence
It is essential that we develop effective alternatives to society's current patterns of violence. We will work to demilitarize and eliminate weapons of mass destruction, without being naive about the intentions of other governments. We recognize the need for self-defense and the defense of others who are in danger.

Calls for dramatically reducing the military budget.

Plans to pursue demilitarization and eliminate weapons of mass destruction while recognizing a need for self-defense.

- Calls for dramatically reducing the military budget.
- Plans to pursue demilitarization and eliminate weapons of mass destruction while recognizing a need for self-defense.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

Democracy
We demand public financing of elections, open debates, and more representative voting systems.

1. Grassroots Democracy
All human beings must be allowed a say in decisions that affect their lives; no one should be subject to the will of another. We work to improve public participation in every aspect of government and seek to ensure that our public representatives are fully accountable to the people who elect them. We also work to create new types of political organizations that expand the process of participatory democracy by directly including citizens in decision-making.

Demands public financing of elections, open debates, and more representative voting systems.

Advocates greater public participation, accountable elected representatives, and political organizations that directly include citizens in decision-making.

- Demands public financing of elections, open debates, and more representative voting systems.
- Advocates greater public participation, accountable elected representatives, and political organizations that directly include citizens in decision-making.

Voting & Elections

4. Non-Violence
It is essential that we develop effective alternatives to society's current patterns of violence. We will work to demilitarize and eliminate weapons of mass destruction, without being naive about the intentions of other governments. We recognize the need for self-defense and the defense of others who are in danger. We promote non-violent methods to oppose practices and policies with which we disagree, and will guide our actions toward lasting personal, community and global peace.

Promotes nonviolent methods of opposing policies and practices.

- Promotes nonviolent methods of opposing policies and practices.

Public Safety

Ecology
The human cost of climate change is too high. We need to get off fossil fuels and on to renewable energy.

3. Ecological Wisdom
Human societies must function with the understanding that we are part of nature, not separate from nature. We must maintain an ecological balance and live within the ecological and resource limits of our communities and our planet. We support a sustainable society that utilizes resources in such a way that future generations will benefit and not suffer from the practices of our generation.

To this end we must practice agriculture that replenishes the soil, move to an energy-efficient economy, and live in ways that respect the integrity of natural systems.

8. Respect For Diversity
We believe it is important to value cultural, ethnic, racial, sexual, religious and spiritual diversity, and to promote the development of respectful relationships across the human spectrum. We believe that the many diverse elements of society should be reflected in our organizations and decision-making bodies, and we support the leadership of people who have been traditionally closed out of leadership roles.
We encourage respect for all life forms, and increased attention to the preservation of biodiversity.

10. Future Focus And Sustainability
Our actions and policies should be motivated by long-term goals. We seek to protect valuable natural resources, safely disposing of or 'unmaking' all waste we create, while developing a sustainable economics that does not depend on continual expansion for survival. We must counterbalance the drive for short-term profits by assuring that economic development, new technologies, and fiscal policies are responsible to future generations who will inherit the results of our actions.

Calls for transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

Supports sustainable resource use, soil-replenishing agriculture, and an energy-efficient economy.

Encourages preserving biodiversity and respecting all life forms.

Seeks to protect natural resources, safely dispose of waste, and develop an economy not dependent on continual expansion.

- Calls for transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
- Supports sustainable resource use, soil-replenishing agriculture, and an energy-efficient economy.
- Encourages preserving biodiversity and respecting all life forms.
- Seeks to protect natural resources, safely dispose of waste, and develop an economy not dependent on continual expansion.

Risa Lombardo

Economy

Education

Foreign Policy and Immigration

Voting & Elections

Public Safety

Energy & the Environment

Healthcare