For Star subscribers: The decisions and events of November and December at the polls and by former Gov. Doug Ducey will help set the tone as Gov. Katie Hobbs begins her term leading Arizona.
Katie Hobbs is starting it with an overhang.
"Every day as governor is an adventure," Ducey wrote, according to ABC 15 in Phoenix."It is the greatest job in politics and an immense responsibility. I know you will serve the people of Arizona well."But about the same time Ducey was writing that, Hobbs learned he was trying to tie her hands over how to spend federal American Rescue Plan money. This is the money, approved by Congress in March 2021, meant to salve the effects of the pandemic and our responses to it.
The Arizona Agenda, which first revealed the contract changes, reported that the state comptroller had refused to sign off on them. Instead, Ducey's chief of staff, Daniel Ruiz made the changes, which he said affected about 40 contracts. The Legislature approved the increase despite the appeals court not supporting it and the caseload in those courts declining. Ducey had already appointed 15 out of the existing 22 court of appeals judges. Now the number will be 21 out of 28 — a full 75%.
Of course, a former governor, or president, always will have made more appointments than a new one. Last week's appointments just built a bigger judicial overhang from the Ducey years to the Hobbs years. Jones went on to support plans to try to recall Hobbs once that's allowed, after she has served six months in office, and wished there was sufficient support to impeach Hobbs.
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