By Howard Fischer | AZ Capitol Times
Some newly discovered emails could undermine the bid by state lawmakers to allocate $15.3 million for the Prescott Rodeo.
Documents filed in court by those challenging the funding appear to show that the state Treasurer’s Office actually agreed to provide another $10 million to the International Dark Sky Discovery Center in Fountain Hills even before it had requested proposals from others who might have qualified for the cash. Only later, after the money already was promised, did state officials follow what the law requires.
What makes that relevant is that the two allocations were part of the same 2023 legislation which entitled state lawmakers to earmark some of the state’s surplus to pet projects.
