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Last Updated on Monday, 16 July 2007 05:49 Written by rslcpol Monday, 16 July 2007 05:49
Do we have a new winner for Mr. Flashbulb
Arizona Attorney General Terry
Goddard risks turning into a 21stcentury Barney
Fife if he continues to pursue costly, time-intensive conflict-of-interest
cases against elected officials which end with either small-change plea deals
or larger charges being thrown out in court.
On the old “Andy Griffith Show,” Don Knotts’ character was so
overzealous about detecting any possible infraction that he was only allowed to
carry a single bullet, and that was in his pocket. (This was a 1960s sitcom, of
course; that joke probably wouldn’t be so funny today, even on
“Reno 911.”)
Goddard’s track record in conflict-of-interest cases over the past
several years isn’t very impressive…
Read the rest of the East Valley Tribune’s editorial here