Flagstaff, Tucson mayors say Gov. Doug Ducey has made no direct contact during most of the coronavirus pandemic

Arizona mayors who broke with Republican Gov. Doug Ducey's approach
to the coronavirus said the governor has made no direct contact
since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Flagstaff and Tucson
mayors Coral Evans and Regina Romero told The Gaggle: An
Arizona politics podcast they had communication with the
Ducey administration early on in the pandemic through morning
conference calls with Ben Blink, the governor's policy adviser for
local governments. However, the calls have since ceased. 
Evans and Romero were the first in the state to issue
proclamations in mid-March, closing certain businesses and public
gathering spaces. Gov. Ducey issued a statewide stay-at-home
March 30.  In the May 27 interviews, Evans and Romero
said their proactive approaches were in response to
information from scientists and public health officials. They
also spoke about the plight of their residents and what further
action will be needed to revive their cities' economies and public
health. Mayor Evans expressed displeasure with the governor, who
has said he wants Arizona to take unified approach in combating
COVID-19.  "It seems to me that if we want to speak as one
voice, then everybody would have the opportunity to be part of the
conversation," Evans told national political reporters Yvonne
Wingett Sanchez and Ronald J. Hansen. "It makes no sense to me that
the mayors that care so passionately about their communities never
had a conversation with the governor the entire time this has been
going on."  In this episode you'll hear Evans and Romero's
thoughts on: Why they issued proclamations shutting down their
cities before Gov. Ducey's stay-at-home order. The state response
to COVID-19. Partisan politics imbued in coronavirus discourse. The
distribution of federal relief funding and what it will be
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