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Former head of the Arizona Attorney General's Election Integrity Unit has joined a legal fight to overturn the results of the attorney general race.
"There are still hundreds of uncounted ballots," Hamadeh said in the statement."Democracy demands accurate results in our elections and I know Jen will fight relentlessly to make sure every voter's voice is heard.
" Wright is also waging a personal ― and public ― fight against Mayes. In a series of social media posts on Jan. 18, Wright said she joined Hamadeh's team after the Attorney General's Office falsely claimed she was forced from her job, leading to a story in The Republic. "But after @krismayes targeted me by falsely and unlawfully planting a hit on me on @azcentral, it became clear that left unchecked, the new admin intended to abuse their power," Wright said in a Twitter post, adding in another:"I will hold her legally accountable." A spokesperson for Mayes' office told The Republic three times between Jan. 4-6 that Wright was forced out of her job. When pressed, the office issued statements Jan. 9 saying Wright resigned and that officials had informed former Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s administration “several times” in late November and December that Wright would not be retained.accusing the office of"intentional discrimination" based on Wright's politics and of violating employee confidentiality laws. Wright provided The Republic with a copy of her resignation letter, dated Dec. 31, which was the Saturday of a holiday weekend. The attorney general’s human resources office confirmed receiving Wright’s letter Jan. 3, a day after Mayes took office, according to another document provided by Wright. It asked Wright to review exit paperwork and said any state equipment, including her state ID, must be turned in to her immediate supervisor. Wright said in her Jan. 19 statement she initially declined to take the Hamadeh case but changed her mind"after being thrust into the limelight" over the circumstances of her departure. "I decided that lending my expertise to such a worthwhile, yet high profile cause, was a worthy endeavor," she said. Wright told the The Republic in separate emails that she would have stayed on at the Election Integrity Unit if Hamadeh had won the election, but"it was clear by Mayes public statements that our visions for the Elections Integrity Unit would not align.”from investigating allegations of voter fraud to combating acts of voter intimidation and threats to election officials. Brnovich hired Wright in 2019 to run the newly created unit, which Republican lawmakers funded after election losses to Democratic candidates in 2018. The Attorney General's Office said at the time the unit's primary focus would be debunking voter fraud claims.and raising claims about procedures on Election Day about 10 days before she sent a letter ordering officials to respond to a series of questions before certifying election results. The Republic found she liked and retweeted posts by Republican candidates and endorsed another on Twitter in the weeks before the election. Between Oct. 23 and Nov. 6, Wright liked several posts by Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, one of which referred to Hobbs as not a serious person. Before that, Wright had retweeted a post by Hamadeh and said she was looking forward to electing Republican Congresswoman Debbie Lesko. Lake and Hamadeh were endorsed by former President Donald Trump. Both filed lawsuits contesting their losses and potentially stood to benefit from Wright's election probe of Maricopa County. "I look forward to getting Kris Mayes out of the office she should have never occupied in the first place," Wright said in Hamadeh's Jan. 17 statement. Wright, who has been featured on conservative radio shows and publications, said she will not back down from her fight. "My plan was not to stay in the public light," she said in a Jan. 18 post."God pushed me back in. So, I will keep fighting the good fight ― and I will not be shaken."
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