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Last Updated on Thursday, 11 June 2009 11:11 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 11 June 2009 11:11
From Phoenix New Times:
Blogger and former Republican lawmaker Greg Patterson opened a tasty can of worms recently, pointing out that Attorney General Terry Goddard has apparently run afoul of the state’s “resign-to-run” law. Goddard, a Democrat, recently told a crowd during a speech that “I intend to run for governor.”
Other media outlets have begun running with this ball, with a southern Arizona newspaper declaring today that the situation shows the law is “worthless.” Yesterday, Patterson posted a section of Democratic State Representative Kyrsten Sinema’s Facebook page that — like Goddard’s statements — seem to meet the state’s definition of a “formal public declaration of candidacy…”