By Howard Fischer
Capitol Media Services/East Valley Tribune
The state’s chief election officer said Monday the way he reads the law, Jan Brewer’s reign as governor ends January 2015, no matter what she and her lawyer say.
Secretary of State Ken Bennett said he understands Brewer’s belief the two years she spent finishing off Janet Napolitano’s term does not count toward the two-term limit voters mandated in 1992. And Brewer, elected in her own right at the 2010 election, is saying she could run again in 2014 if she wants, something she had not yet decided.
Bennett, who was appointed to his post in 2009 when Brewer became governor, said he has not studied the legal arguments about a third term being advanced by Joe Kanefield, the governor’s former legal counsel.
