By Bob Christie | Arizona Capitol Times
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs demoted three officials running state agencies to deputy director posts after a judge ruled that her move to name them and other agency heads as “deputy executive directors” to avoid a contentious Senate agency director confirmation process was illegal and there was no hope the trio could win confirmation.
But the demotions didn’t mean lower salaries for the former agency leaders.
Instead, despite David Lujan, Karen Peters and Dana Allmond being stripped of their leadership posts by the Democratic governor last month after Senate Republicans signaled they could not be confirmed, state records obtained by Capitol Media Services show they are still getting paid exactly what they were before.
