Our View Endorsements: State races
Jan Brewer
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer speaks with the East Valley Tribune's editorial board, Wednesday, September 29, 2010 in Mesa. Brewer is running for a second term in office.
Ken Bennett
Ken Bennett, a candidate for Arizona Secretary of the State, speaks with editorial board members of the East Valley Tribune, Monday, October 4, 2010 in Mesa.
Felecia Rotellini
Felecia Rotellini speaks to the East Valley Tribune's editorial board Friday, September 17, 2010 in Mesa. Rotellini is running for the Arizona attorney general's office.
Doug Ducey
Repubican candidate for State Treasurer, Doug Ducey addresses the East Valley Tribune Editorial board during a question and answer meeting at the Tribune offices in Mesa.
Penny Kotterman
Penny Kotterman, who is running for Arizona superintendent of public instruction, speaks to members of the East Valley Tribune's editorial board, Wednesday, September 22, 2010 in Mesa.
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jochas6548 posted at 3:27 pm on Sun, Oct 24, 2010.
Horne is not a career politician. He has been Superintendent of Education for 8 years, where he raised AZ's public schools rank to 24th in the nation, despite being 49th in the nation in funding (which is out of Horne's control). Before that, he practiced law for 30 years, while serving just 4 years in the legislature, & 24 years as an unpaid school board member. Rotellini received a full time government paycheck for 17 years since graduating from law school in 1986. She worked for the government any more years much longer, full time, than Horne.
Rotellini is a point person for the Obama administration, where her mentor ex-Gov Napolitano heads Homeland Security, which fails to defend our border. Rotellini states she will vote NO on the ballot Proposition against Obama-care. If you believed Obama’s campaign lies, you’ll love Rotellini. The truth about Rotellini and some of her campaign lies is:
She claims credit for getting $217 million from Arthur Andersen, but it was the non-governmental lawyer in the civil case who got the judgment, which Felecia then put into the agency order after it was a done deal. When defending her experience to the AZ Republic, she cited just 6 criminal cases she had worked on. In those 6 cases, she got one, yes one, guilty plea which resulted in a defendant going to prison. In the other cases, she abandoned the cases before other lawyers got the guilty pleas. Just like she abandoned the Baptist Foundation criminal case before trial to be promoted by then Gov. Napolitano to head a State agency.
She never tried a case, criminal or civil, in the AG's Office, in her entire 13 years of working there. In her entire life, she tried just 2 jury cases, both civil, before joining the AG's Office in 1992. She was an administrative agency lawyer, representing various State agencies in administrative hearings, not court. She headed the State Bar's administrative law section. She is not a certified criminal law specialist, because that requires criminal trial experience. Yet she falsely claims on her website that she put criminals (plural) behind bars. The truth is that she put one criminal behind bars, in 24 years of lawyering. Felecia lies ab/ her record, & lies ab/ Horne’s record. I fear another Andy Thomas experience if she is elected: another politically motivated lawyer who will do anything & say anything to get elected.
As superintendent of the Arizona Department of Financial Institutions, the agency regulating mortgage companies, she ignored the billion dollar fraud of Mortgages, Ltd for years, despite the six warning letters in 2006-2007 from the prominent lawyer representing a church which had been the victim of mortgage fraud by Mortgages, Ltd. When the AG’s Office was questioned about it by New Times, the AG’s Office spokesman said that it “referred them [the victims] to the Arizona Department of Financial Institutions." No action was taken by Rotellini against Mortgages, Ltd before she resigned in 2009 to run for AG.
CooperG posted at 3:23 pm on Mon, Oct 25, 2010.
All people need to do is look at the stuff Andy Thomas wrote about Horne before the Primary election to get a sense of the guy. You can see the summary here from the Sonoran Alliance blog:
http://sonoranalliance.com/2010/07/03/tom-horne-financial-con-artist-banned-for-life-by-sec-watch-stunning-video/
Andy Thomas says back in 2007, Horne wrote "the Tom Horne Amnesty Plan!
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/article_42d1e9c7-6997-5863-930f-4af0c650d70f.html
The blog "Intellectual Conservative" says Tom Horne supported abortion before he was against it. It also says Horne is against the Second Amendment.
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2010/08/23/andrew-thomas-reduced-crime-tom-horne-reduced-test-scores/
Rotellini will be a much better Attorney General than Tom Horne primarily because he doesn't know who he is. He doesn't know what he's for or against. He doesn't know if he committed fraud or not. THIS is the guy we want as AG?
No thanks.
snipes posted at 8:03 am on Tue, Oct 26, 2010.
Tom Horne is both a liar and a thief.
That's why the Securities and Exchange Commission banned him for life.
Horne is one of the easiest candidates to vote AGAINST.
Felecia Rotellini is a breath of fresh air. She's got my vote!
CR4Pres posted at 3:11 pm on Thu, Oct 28, 2010.
snipes, you are obviously easy to please. All you are doing is repeating Rotellini's rhetoric. I have yet to hear what she stands for, only what Horne has done wrong. She is only looking for votes against Horne, she has never taken a consistent position about what she stands for in realistic and specific terms. She says Horne lied because he said she's never tried a case, her response on her website was she has hundreds of hours of "hearing and court appearances." She's hoping her constituents are too stupid to know that does NOT translate to Horne lying about her trial experience. And she "wants an apology", are you kidding? Put your big girl panties on, Rotellini, this is a campaign, not a little girl's slumber party! She does not have the guts to stand up against strong personalities, and she won't stand up for Arizona either.
Brian Ellsworth posted at 7:13 am on Fri, Oct 29, 2010.
Brewer really - the women cannot think on her own, used her position to dodge a DUI, and allows her lobbyist adivsors to gaybash (wasn't there a similiar story regarding her?). He should have been fired, but that would have taken some thought. With all the suicides of gay youth I guess one more comment that 'You are bad" is just acceptable.
We can be proud to have the only governor without a college degree - and it shows!.
I think we can all be glad when the EV Tribune closes forever.
az-565 posted at 10:48 pm on Sat, Oct 30, 2010.
Kotterman will not be a stronger advocate for public schools. She will be a stronger advocate for the Teachers Union. Having Penny Kotterman as Superintendent of public instruction will only lead to higher pay and benefits for Teachers, with less accountability and more Left-Wing indoctrination for Arizona kids.