An Arizona state representative has filed a complaint with the state’s attorney general requesting an investigation of Governor Katie Hobbs’s alleged use of state funds to sway elections.
Republican state representative David Livingston filed the complaint on June 14, requesting an investigation of the Democratic governor after seeking a legal opinion from Arizona attorney general Kristin Mayes in March.
Mayes, a Democrat, declined the request.
In his initial request, Livingston said he needed Mayes’s guidance regarding state law and whether it allowed the governor-elect to raise money for political groups “that make expenditures to influence elections through a state website promoting inaugural events.”…