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October 24, 2009 - 05:21 pm

NEWS FEED: Arizona Republic

More legal drama between Maricopa County and the County Attorney's Office ...

On Tuesday, Wade Swanson, Maricopa County's director of the Office of General Litigation Services, told The Republic that County Attorney Andrew Thomas had not done “his legal homework” in appointing out-of-town lawyers to investigate Supervisor Don Stapley.

The Maricopa County Attorney's Office claims that Swanson didn't either.

Among the reasons the county would not approve contracts for Washington, D.C.,-based attorneys Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing was because they were not residents of Maricopa County “as required by statute.”

The citations Swanson produced to justify the statement were 1958 and 1979 Attorney General's opinions.

Barnett Lotstein, a spokesman in Thomas' office, said the opinions ...

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Fri, 11/21/2008 - 20:09

Dems have until Friday to respond to complaint

By Evan Brown, PolitickerAZ.com Reporter

The Arizona Democratic Party and Scott Palumbo, an attorney who headed Arizonans for Responsible Law Enforcement, have one more day to respond to a complaint filed by the re-election campaign of Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, according to the independent counsel handling the complaint.

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Fri, 10/31/2008 - 22:19

Lawyer still waiting to see complaint against AZ Dems

By Evan Brown, PolitickerAZ.com Reporter

The election lawyer who will be reviewing a complaint against the Arizona Democratic Party from the re-election campaign of Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas has yet to see the letter, he told PolitickerAZ.com Friday.

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Thu, 10/30/2008 - 20:57

Investigation sought on 'Arizona Wins' money

By Evan Brown, PolitickerAZ.com Reporter

The campaign of Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas is calling for Arizona elections director Karen Osborne to investigate the connection between the Arizona Democratic Party, a group known as Arizona Wins and Arizonans for Responsible Law Enforcement, which produced a radio spot against Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, who is running for re-election against Democrat Tim Nelson.

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Thu, 10/30/2008 - 19:33

Nelson renews calls for release of New Times arrest documents

By Evan Brown, PolitickerAZ.com Reporter

Maricopa County attorney candidate Tim Nelson kept up his call for the release of records related to the arrest of New Times publishers Mike Lacey and Jim Larkin, holding a press conference at Arizona Democratic Party headquarters Thursday to demand the office of incumbent county attorney Andrew Thomas

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Thu, 10/30/2008 - 17:38

Maricopa Dems call for investigations, records release by Board of Supervisors

By Evan Brown, PolitickerAZ.com Reporter

Mark Manoil, chairman of the Maricopa County Democratic Party, called on Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and the county Board of Supervisors Wednesday to investigate donations to the state Republican Party by a Mesa group, SCA, and to release a report by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care on the state of prisoner care in Maricopa County jails.

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Thu, 10/23/2008 - 13:56

Nelson demands SCA records from Thomas; Thomas office says they don't exist

By Evan Brown, PolitickerAZ.com Reporter

The office of Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas will tell the lawyer for the Tim Nelson campaign that it has no records of any communications between anyone in it and SCA, the anonymous Mesa group whose contributions to the Arizona Republican Party allegedly went toward funding an ad attacking Nelson.

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Mon, 09/08/2008 - 18:55

Nelson puts focus on domestic violence

By Evan Brown, PolitickerAZ.com Reporter

PHOENIX -- Tim Nelson, Democratic candidate for Maricopa County attorney, announced his intention to create a court devoted to domestic violence cases if elected, and ripped into incumbent Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas for not putting more effort into dealing with domestic violence.

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