By Howard Fischer | AZ Capitol Times
Gov. Katie Hobbs has given up on her bid to force the Senate to confirm her nominees to head state agencies.
In an agreement filed with Maricopa County Superior Court late Monday, Hobbs agreed to again start sending names of her choices to the Senate, if not immediately at least when the session begins in January. And once she does that, they can serve for up to a year without Senate action.
But nothing in the deal actually forces the Senate to provide her picks with any better treatment than many of them got last year. And it was that treatment, which Hobbs called “disrespectful,” that led her to withdraw the names and instead use a procedure to set them up to keep running the agencies without Senate approval.
