GOP Lawmakers Investigate Governor for Potential Pay-to-Play

Hobbs Pay‑to‑Play Scandal? $400K Deal Under Fire

Arizona legislators launched a formal investigation into Governor Katie Hobbs this week, alleging a potential pay‑to‑play scheme tied to a large rate increase for a foster‑care provider that made big political donations. According to the probe, the nonprofit Sunshine Residential Homes—which serves youth in group homes—received a roughly 30 percent payment‐rate hike worth millions from the Arizona Department of Child Safety after donating about $…

GOP lawmakers investigate governor for potential pay-to-play

(The Center Square) - Arizona legislators are investigating Gov. Katie Hobbs over a potential pay-to-play scheme involving millions of dollars, but the Democratic governor calls the Republican lawmakers' investigation "a

AZ Senate President Signals Impeachment Readiness Amid Pay-to-Play, Prosecutorial Allegations Against Hobbs and Mayes

Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen escalated the political stakes in Phoenix on Friday, declaring that Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes now face “disturbing allegations” of impeachable conduct.  In a sharply worded post on X, Petersen said: “Disturbing allegations are being made that Hobbs and Mayes, the two most powerful elected officials in the state, committed impeachable offenses. Impeachment is done by the H…

Arizona’s great big rate increase for a group home provider: State officials deny it was pay-for-play; but their own explanation is nearly as bad.

Shortly after taking office as Governor of Arizona, Katie Hobbs announced what could have been a breakthrough: She named a real reformer, Matthew Stewart, to run the state family police agency, the Department of Child Safety. For the first time in decades, the agency would have a leader who understood that the root of Arizona’s child welfare problems was the fact that it tears apart families at a rate well above the national average. That’s comp…