This week Pima County was sued and yet another records reqyest was filed…. remember those funds that were swept from Supervisor Ally Miller’s district into Supervisor Ray Carroll’s district… it was an emergency two years ago, two years later nothing has changed… but lo and behold …. a records request was filed and poof – the work might now get done… or not… it is the Pima Way!
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Apparently the Goldwater Institute was unimpressed with the “thoughtful consideration” Pima County gave to the Institute’s warning that the County’s World View deal was a violation of Arizona’s Gift Clause and procurement laws. So, on Wednesday the Institute announced that it would proceed with a lawsuit against the County.
The Institute had given Pima County officials to give “thoughtful consideration” and respond no later than April 8, 2016. The County responded on April 5.
Goldwater will file the lawsuit in Pima County Superior Court on Thursday, according to the Arizona Daily Star.
The Goldwater suit was filed on behalf of Pima County residents David Preston, a CPA, Richard Rogers, a real estate investor, and Shelby Manguson-Hawkins, a pest control company owner. Goldwater holds that the parties have standing because as “Pima County taxpayers, Plaintiffs are responsible for paying property, sales, and other taxes, and will bear a share of the burden for replenishing the public coffers of Pima County for revenues lost from the unlawful expenditures to be made by Pima County to or for the benefit of World View.”