No Labels gubernatorial nominee Teri Ann Hourihan named Angela Harrolle Mohan as her preferred lieutenant governor pick, elevating a registered independent with real estate and health and wellness credentials who spent more than a decade leading The 100 Club, a nonprofit that aids families of fallen or seriously injured police, firefighters and other public safety personnel.
The announcement came ahead of the Secretary of State's Friday deadline for gubernatorial candidates to publicly identify their preferred running mates. Republican Andy Biggs had already tapped former state Sen. Sine Kerr. Incumbent Democrat Katie Hobbs plans to select former Mesa Mayor John Giles, a onetime Republican who re-registered as an independent earlier this year, according to the New York Times.
What it means is simple: Hourihan put a law-and-order adjacent resume on the ticket and kept pace with a procedural box Arizona requires candidates to check this cycle. Naming a No. 2 is not a poll surge, but it is a step toward seriousness in a race where third-party brands usually struggle for oxygen.
Hourihan won the No Labels nomination after defeating Hugh Lytle, who was backed by No Labels Chairman Paul Johnson. Since then she has worked to draw contrast with both major-party contenders rather than audition for either camp's voters.
She has targeted Hobbs over pocketbook performance, saying the governor failed to make Arizona more affordable. Hourihan also faulted Hobbs for signing an Arizona Public Service-backed bill allowing utilities to issue low-interest bonds tied to aging coal plants, a move critics said could extend coal operations as APS backed away from earlier fossil-fuel reduction commitments.
Hobbs' press aide Christian Slater responded that the governor disagreed with APS's decision but defended the securitization law as a way to help deliver more energy. It is the sort of split-the-difference governing that invites a third-ticket critique even as it remains the law on the books.
Hourihan's shots were not limited to Democrats. She criticized Biggs for being one of two Republicans on the U.S. House Oversight Committee to oppose a 2025 motion to subpoena U.S. Department of Justice files related to Jeffrey Epstein and federal sex-trafficking charges. She further accused Biggs of blind allegiance to the president, saying, "He worships Trump." Hourihan added she does not hate the president but does not support all of his policies or conduct. Those are her characterizations, not findings.
Arizona's requirement that gubernatorial hopefuls name a preferred lieutenant governor underscores the difference between a filing and a finish. This disclosure does not by itself move budgets, change rates or realign the grid. It does, however, signal how a ticket wants to be seen, and Mohan's 100 Club tenure is a credential Hourihan plainly wants in the frame.
For contrast, Biggs went with a known legislative quantity in Kerr. Hobbs' planned pick of Giles, per the Times, continues her habit of gesturing at the center while counting on progressive votes to hold. Voters will decide whether they want a bipartisan patina or a defined governing program.
Third-party math is unforgiving. Yet in a race already defined by affordability fights and energy policy contradictions, a pick with deep ties to public safety families gives Hourihan something concrete to talk about besides everyone else's baggage.
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