BY JIM SHARPE | KTAR
On this week’s AZ Political Podcast, Thomas Galvin, chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, talks with me about public funding of professional sports, making election results faster to access and what role the government of the fourth-most populous county in the U.S. plays in public safety and education.
A big part in the former — and virtually none in the latter, by the way.
Supervisor Galvin, who represents about 900,000 residents in Maricopa County’s District 2 (located in the northeastern part of the Valley), tells me how his experience as a land use attorney negotiating the city of Phoenix‘s lease extension of Footprint Center with the Suns is helping him work on behalf of the county on a lease agreement with the Diamondbacks for Chase Field.
He also expressed his interest in reviving a National Hockey League franchise in Maricopa County.
We also talk about a couple of bills at the Legislature that he’s hoping will lead to having 95% of Maricopa County’s election results available by the end of election night — and why Arizona’s “swing-state” status makes that so important.
