The West Valley View writes:

Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard made a campaign stop at an Avondale eatery Monday...

In introducing Goddard to the small crowd, [Mayor] Lopez Rogers called the attorney general "a good friend of Avondale, a good friend of the West Valley, and a good friend of the entire state of Arizona."

She also touted Goddard as a champion of jobs and education - two topics the gubernatorial hopeful focused on during his approximately hour-long appearance at the restaurant.

"We have a series of just critical problems facing Arizona. Our loss of jobs, which is overwhelming, should be the absolute No. 1 obligation of the next governor - to fight to bring back jobs. I don't understand why Jan Brewer hasn't done that, but she hasn't," Goddard said.

He told the crowd that Arizona has lost 365,000 jobs, the largest loss per capita in the nation; and that Arizona's unemployment rate of 9.7 percent is a 30-year low for the state.

Additionally, "the poverty rate in the state of Arizona has grown faster than any state in the nation in the past year. We are now at 21.2 percent of Arizonans who are below the poverty line," he said.

Goddard said if elected he would veto any bill that comes before him that would not bring about job creation.

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