I called it

Arizona's Governor has finally decided who will permanently fill John McCain's senate seat. John Kyl, the former Senator in his own right and current temporary fill-in, is resigning with the New Year. The replacement will be Martha McSally, the loser in our recent very nasty senate election for our other Senate seat which Jeff Flake retires from early in January. Before the 2016 election McSally was critical of Trump. But during the past two years, she followed lock-step with the GOP House leadership, and ran for the Senate as a Trump supporter. We can only hope she will be a tad more independent in the Senate than she was in the House. She will face a lot of elections in the coming years (though no worse than if she'd stayed in the House). As an appointee in this state she'll have to run again in 2020 for the right to complete the term, and assuming she wins that she will be up for election again in 2022 when the normal six-year term expires.

As I stated the day after the election was decided, McSally will have the opportunity to swear in before the election winner, Kyrsten Sinema. Since they are of different parties the extra seniority won't mean a thing in terms of committee assignments and so forth with respect to Sinema. But it would mean McSally would technically become Arizona's first female Senator. So within a few days next month Arizona will go from never having a woman Senator, to having both Senators women.