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Stories by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
Posted May 12, 2022, 11:16 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy & Dillon Rosenblatt /Arizona Mirror
A researcher the Arizona Senate hired to double-check an analysis of ballots by election conspiracy theorist Jovan Pulitzer said his claims that there were upwards of 12,000 counterfeit ballots were “utter rubbish.”... Read more»
Posted May 11, 2022, 8:10 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
Newly released documents by the watchdog group American Oversight show that the Arizona Senate’s partisan review of the 2020 presidential election in Maricopa County went over its proposed budget and spent more money than it had available to it. ... Read more»
Posted May 9, 2022, 4:31 pm
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
The Arizona Supreme Court flatly rejected an attempt to disqualify Republican Congressmen Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar and State Rep. Mark Finchem from the 2022 ballot for their alleged roles in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.... Read more»
Posted May 6, 2022, 6:04 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
Prescott Republican Congressman Paul Gosar spent more than $7,800 for travel, lodging and vehicle expenses while attending events with far-right groups and white nationalists, far outspending other members of Arizona’s delegation.... Read more»
Posted May 5, 2022, 7:03 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
A group of far-right extremists with ties to white nationalists tried to counter-protest an abortion rights rally held at the Arizona Capitol Tuesday night, where they were vastly outnumbered and one was arrested for violently attacking a demonstrator. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 27, 2022, 2:44 pm
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Republican Congressman Paul Gosar posted — and later deleted — a meme rooted in violent and racist online culture that was praised by neo-Nazis and white nationalists. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 26, 2022, 10:21 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
A bill to allow parents to sue Arizona teachers for "usurping the fundamental right" of a parent in raising their children won approval is now one signature from becoming law.... Read more»
Posted Apr 22, 2022, 1:06 pm
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
A trio of lawsuits that sought to disqualify Republican Congressmen Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar and state Rep. Mark Finchem from the ballot for their alleged roles in the January 6 attack on the Capitol was dismissed Friday. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 19, 2022, 3:49 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
A bill to allow parents to sue Arizona teachers for “usurping the fundamental right” of a parent in raising their children won approval from state Senate Republicans on Monday and is one vote away from Gov. Doug Ducey’s desk. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 7, 2022, 4:57 pm
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
A trio of lawsuits seek to disqualify Republican Congressmen Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar and state Rep. Mark Finchem from the ballot for their alleged roles in the January 6 attack on the Capitol.... Read more»
Posted Apr 7, 2022, 5:58 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy & Jim Small/Arizona Mirror
Arizona AG Mark Brnovich released an “interim report” - initiated following the conclusion of "review" of Maricopa County’s election - that made clear investigators are conducting a civil and not a criminal probe, and they had uncovered little more than record-keeping issues.... Read more»
Posted Apr 6, 2022, 3:01 pm
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
Prescott Republican Congressman Paul Gosar was listed as a “special guest” with the white nationalist American Populist Union at an event that will be on a date popular among white nationalists and Neo-Nazis: Hitler’s birthday.... Read more»
Posted Apr 6, 2022, 1:15 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
In a unanimous decision, the Arizona Supreme Court said state tax court should revisit a years-long legal battle between Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich and the Arizona Board of Regents over allegations a Tempe hotel on university land violates the state’s gift clause. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 5, 2022, 10:11 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
With Arizona law tilted firmly in favor of Airbnb and other short-term rental platforms, cities and towns looking to stop the negative effects of homes in quiet neighborhoods being rented out as “party houses” are increasingly finding their hands tied. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 1, 2022, 6:59 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
The Arizona Attorney General says that the most onerous parts of an ordinance passed earlier this year by the town of Paradise Valley aimed at reining in “party house” Airbnbs conflict with existing state law, putting $1.6 million of the town’s state shared revenue in limbo.... Read more»
Posted Mar 31, 2022, 2:31 pm
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
Conspiracy theorist Ron Watkins, the man purported to be Q has run afoul of the Federal Elections Commission for failing to correctly report how much he raised and spent during his first quarter as a congressional candidate in a rural Arizona district. ... Read more»