NEWS 28 - After their respective victories during the 2024 Mesa election season, Governor Joshua Adamson, Lieutenant Governor Gregory Brentwood and Mesa Attorney General-Elect Brian Wallard are preparing to be sworn into office on Monday at 10:00 AM.
Election Day was held on October 18, 2024, just days after the 2024 Presidential Election, and voters returned to polls and throughout the day casted their ballots for their governor and attorney general. Many voters who are early voters, were able to cast their vote for their gubernatorial and attorney general candidate on the Presidential ballot.
"I look forward to continuing to serve as your Governor and now that we have won the Nationalist House, it will make governing that much easier," said Governor Joshua Adamson. "There is so much more work that needs to be done to ensure economic growth will continue into the future, and ensure that our kids grow up in a safe, and moral Mesa. The transgender community is supported, however children should not be learning of their ideology or the belief that they are born in the wrong body. Only god can decide what gender a baby becomes. We will work with Nationalists as we have done for the past year under my leadership and we will ensure that we work hard for the people of this state, harder than we ever have in these next two years."
He is expected to take the governor's oath of office alongside Lieutenant Governor Gregory Brentwood and Mesa Attorney General-Elect Brian Wallard at 10:00 AM on Monday. Adamson had remained heavily popular among 73% of registered voters who believe that he made life easier in Mesa, since taking office. He was also viewed more popular to about 24% of Nationalist voters. Joseph Cooke, was more popular with Nationalist voters, but only about 5% of Republican voters viewed him more favorably.
With him looking towards governing the next 2 years, before he takes the oath of office, Adamson is appealing to Nationalists, citing that their voices matter as well, and says he is working to compromise on LGBTQ policy but says he won't allow gender affirming care to pass for Mesians under the age of 18 years old.
"I've made it very clear that gender affirming care will not be legal in this state, but I am willing to make it legal for Mesians over the age of 18, and no younger," continued Adamson. "We must continue to protect our children from this issue, because children deserve to grow up, without the need to question their own identity until they are the age where their choice can be reflected on."
State House and Senate Republicans have pushed through legislation under Governor's Parker Heaton, Kirk Paul and Joshua Adamson to protect students under the age of 18 in schools from reading about transgender ideology, something that Nationalists seem so eager to push on their children. Republicans have always said that adults, which in the context of Mesa State law is 18 and older, should be able to choose to read, view and listen to transgender ideology. But they say children aren't old enough or mentally old enough to process the ideology.