Water issues motivated Myers to run for legislature

by Jake Kincaid | San Tan Sentinel

Nick Myers

Nick Myers got into politics for a very simple reason- his neighborhood in the San Tan Valley didn’t have water.

Fighting and winning a bureaucratic battle in the Arizona Corporation Committee against Johnson Utilities gave Myers a taste for politics and left him with an appetite for more. Now, Myers is running for the state House of Representatives in Legislative District 12

Myers was living in a Wildcat development known as Bonanza Highlands. Johnson utilities had agreed to build outline extensions to a group of homes, but then backed out, leaving residents like Myers dependent on a standpipe and water haulers. Myers go into the business and began hauling water himself.

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