By Jeremy Duda | Arizona Mirror
A challenge to a lawmaker’s nominating petitions has become the latest round in the ongoing feud between Attorney General Mark Brnovich and Secretary of State Katie Hobbs.
Hobbs, a Democrat, argued the Republican attorney general withdrew as her counsel at the last minute in a case challenging whether Rep. Shawnna Bolick should be on the ballot and took a position contradictory to the legal advice his office had been providing to her.
At issue in the case is whether Bolick, a Phoenix Republican, can use the address of a UPS store instead of her home address or a post office box on the nominating petitions she submitted to qualify to be on the ballot for the August primary election.
A judge ruled in late April that Bolick, whose voter registration data can be legally shielded from public view because her husband is a justice on the Arizona Supreme Court, had substantially complied with the law and that her name could therefore appear on the ballot. The voter challenging Bolick’s candidacy has appealed to the Arizona Supreme Court.
