Diego Rodriguez is an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the

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for the 27th district from 2019 to 2021. He was elected in 2018 to succeed State Representative

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, who instead ran for the

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. Rodriguez graduated from the

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, and eventually relocated to Arizona, where he graduated from the

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and later started his own law firm. In 2021, he resigned from the House and declared his candidacy for the

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. He announced he was withdrawing from the Attorney General election on April 1, 2022.

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Diego Rodriguez for Arizona Attorney General
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