Rep. Andy Biggs' (R-AZ) daughter, Mylie Biggs, once pondered, “I don’t know if I would vote for any female." Now, however, she's asking voters to do exactly that.
The far-right lawmaker's child is seeking a state senate seat, The Phoenix New Times reported Wednesday. "And to hear her tell it, you shouldn’t vote for her because she’s a woman."
The 25-year-old Biggs filed a statement of interest to run for a seat that the Arizona Senate President is leaving to run for attorney general.
But last year, Biggs appeared on the East Valley-based podcast, "The Matty McCurdy Program," advocating that women should not hold political office.
“Honestly, I don’t know if I would vote for any female. I don’t know if females should be in office,” Biggs said in the Aug. 6, 2024, episode, laughing about it, the Times said.
“There are a lot of really good women in office, I’m not trying to hate on anyone — like, some really good congresswomen,” Biggs continued. “Yeah, I don’t think women should hold office in general. That’s my position. That’s my stance. I think women should run the home.”
“I hate a 9-to-5 schedule,” Biggs added. “I get home and I don’t want to do anything else. Like, women aren’t built for this. I just want to be a wife. I just want to be a mom.”
Lawmakers in smaller states generally work both their normal day job and their job as an official. Lawmakers in Arizona make $24,000 a year.
“Have you seen ones where it’s like, if women were the only ones to vote, what it would look like and it’s literally like 80% blue," Biggs said, laughing again. "It’s like, ‘Whoa. Repeal the 19th Amendment.’”
Biggs argued “modern feminism” has changed society, “starting with women's right to vote.”
Biggs graduated last year from the University of Arizona and works as an associate of government affairs for the right-wing Arizona Free Enterprise Club.