The bickering over the book continued this morning. Maricopa County’s chief prosecutor, Andrew Thomas (pictured right), a Republican who’s running for re-election this fall, was on KTAR-FM this morning with host Darrell Ankarlo, defending his decision to use public money to promote Ankarlo’s new book. The spending was criticized yesterday by Tim Nelson, a Democrat running to unseat Thomas this fall. The county attorney’s office released a copy of the contract to us yesterday. Here it is: Ankarlo’s contract with the county attorney.
By the way, Ankarlo said on air this morning that he did not receive a dime of public money in the deal, only the opportunity to use the prosecutor’s name and seal on his book tour.
I guess Tim Nelson’s ignorence about the uses of RICO funds is to be expected when one recognizes that he has never set foot in a criminal courtroom. He confuses the Federal RICO statute with the Arizona RICO statute. He needs some more tutering from his sponser Gov. Napolitano.
“If educating the public about illegal immigration isn’t an appropriate expenditure of RICO funds then what is?”
A conservative talk show pundits opinion on the border dispute is not “education”. Thomas has a long record of misappropriating MCAO funds special interest and faith based organizations. He needs to be removed from office.
ps. NAMBLA? Dude, you need a new argument.