It’s Friday, which means it is time for another edition of Journalists’ Roundtable, where we discuss Arizona politics. This week, “Arizona Horizon” host Ted Simons was joined by Camryn Sanchez and Wayne Schutsky of KJZZ Radio, and Jim Small of Arizona Mirror.
This week’s topics included:
- Petersen vs. Mayes, Fontes
- Schweikert vs. Biggs
- SRP elections
- Rachel Alexander and Sherry Jeridan
- Veto: Linking contraception to adoption information
- Bill criminalizes encouraging suicide
Peterson vs. Mayes, Fontes:
Camryn Sanchez: “Every time I’m worried that we’ve moved on from 2020…and so we are once again talking about the election, we are talking about concerns of election interference. We’re talking about Warren Peterson, who is a republican, going after Democrats who say that this is, of course, ridiculous, and I have a bad feeling it might end up in court.”
Wayne Schutsky: “…wrote a letter to Peterson himself asking for more information on what exactly he turned over. So, his charge is that those letters effectively amount to trying to stick their noses into this Federal investigation, which there’s an ongoing grand jury, and asked the DOJ to look into it.”
Jim Small: “It all kinds of ties back to the request that Trump Administration has made of the state through Secretary of State Adrian Fontes’s office to turn over the state’s voter rules unredacted…their argument is look, state privacy laws say we can’t release this information…we can’t release it that this is private voter information…refused to give that to the Trump administration.”
Camryn Sanchez: “His claim is that they’re interfering with a very above-board federal request, and of course, the counterargument is that they’re concerned. The Federal request is against the law in itself, and so it kind of puts County recorders in this, I guess, awkward position.”
