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By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services
Gov. Katie Hobbs finally agreed Tuesday to once again start sending nominations for her picks to head state agencies to the Senate for confirmation.
But the chairman of the panel that screens them said they should expect the same kinds of questions that led her to withdraw their names from consideration in the first place a year ago.
The agreement comes as Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Scott Blaney, an appointee of former Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, signed a judgment Tuesday making formal his earlier ruling that the governor broke the law by failing to submit her choices during the first week of the legislative session in January. Hobbs instead used a tactic to avoid seeking the legally required Senate confirmation by having the agencies headed by “executive deputy directors,” something Blaney found illegal.
