For Star subscribers: Arizona's top GOP lawmakers ask Gov. Katie Hobbs not to keep the money where it could legally be used to elect more Democrats. She isn't budging.
Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services PHOENIX — Arizona's top two GOP legislators want Gov. Katie Hobbs to put donated money left over from her inaugural celebration into a state account — where it can't be used to elect more Democrats.
People are also reading… In asking Hobbs to surrender the money, Toma and Petersen said she should put any excess into a state Protocol Fund. "Given this historical practice, as well as the Inaugural Fund's own descriptive title, Arizonans would have reasonably anticipated that any excess funds would be used for state interests,'' they told her.
"It would be inappropriate to utilize any monies in the Inaugural Fund to influence an election,'' Toma and Petersen said, citing state statutes that prohibit public resources to affect the outcome of any vote.
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