Adrian Fontes and Reginald Bolding faced off in a debate for secretary of state / Arizona Republic
By Mary Jo Pitzl |Arizona Republic
The elbows are flying in the final weeks of the Democratic race for secretary of state.
On Wednesday, two complaints were filed with the IRS and the Federal Elections Commission over the activities of Our Voice Our Vote, a nonprofit organization run by candidate Reginald Bolding.
And Bolding’s rival, Adrian Fontes, paid off a property tax debt that had accumulated over the past decade.
The two-man race has taken a sharp negative turn as the Aug. 2 primary approaches. Bolding has accused Fontes of ginning up the complaints about him and the nonprofits he runs; Fontes pointed back to Bolding and his allies as the source of the delinquent property tax charge, but thanked him for bringing the matter to his attention.
Complaints about Bolding to IRS, FEC
The complaints filed with federal officials stem from reports that Bolding’s organization, Our Voice Our Vote, may have violated its nonprofit status by supporting Bolding’s candidacy for secretary of state.
“Our Voice Our Vote has made political expenditures benefitting their executive director’s own political campaign and may have directed the staff to collect signatures on behalf of the campaign,” Tempe resident David Lucier wrote in his complaint.
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