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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced a special session for the state Legislature focused on wildfire mitigation and prevention.Ducey says wildfires are the new top priority, so the ongoing state budget discussions are moved to the back burner. He says Arizona is in a good enough position financially to focus on other matters.
Katie Hobbs in March 2020.
Republican lawmakers took the first steps Tuesday to strip Secretary of State Katie Hobbs of some of her powers.
Measures approved by both the House and Senate Appropriations committees would take away her authority to defend state election laws and give it to Attorney General Mark Brnovich. It also prevents her from being able to get legal advice from the Attorney General s Office and would remove her purview over the Capitol Museum located in the historic Capitol.
But Republican lawmakers insist it s not personal, not a power grab and not punishment for Hobbs political stances, even though several said how unhappy they are with things she s done and the law is designed to lapse at the end of her term.
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Contractors working for Cyber Ninjas, who was hired by the Arizona State Senate, examine and recount ballots from the 2020 general election at Veterans Memorial Coliseum on May 13, 2021, in Phoenix.
Defying calls by Maricopa County officials to end a controversial review of the 2020 election, Arizona Senate President Karen Fann said Tuesday that the review is justified and will continue.
And the head of the private cybersecurity company hired by Fann to lead that effort said the process could last into the summer.
Fann, a Prescott Republican, defended her decision to order an audit and hand recount of the general election returns in Maricopa County at a quasi-legislative hearing on Tuesday afternoon. The Senate president had invited Maricopa County officials to attend in a letter last week to address “serious issues” found by firms conducting the review.