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Republican Speaker of the House at
the Arizona House of Representatives from 1997 to
2001. Groscost was a 2000 Republican candidate for
District 30
of the
Arizona
State
Senate. |
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Gas Bag Man |
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"Great
toucan turds,
people! With
all the
pathetic
blubberin'
that's
busted out
over the
past couple
of weeks due
to the
demise of
former
Arizona
House
Speaker Jeff
Groscost,
you'd think
the
long-disgraced
Mesa
Republican
was the
second
coming of
JFK. Um,
instead of
the
scandal-dogged
sneaky
bastard
whose
shenanigans
bilked this
state to the
tune of $150
mil in the
outrageous
alt-fuel
scam of
Y2K." |
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Nov. 16,
2006 |
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Senator Declines To
Serve On Panel With
Groscost |
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"Sen.
Barbara Leff,
R-Paradise Valley,
said she has told
Senate leaders she
will not serve on
the Ad Hoc Electric
Industry Competition
Study Committee
because of
Groscost. She
had agreed to serve
as the study
committee's new
co-chair but only
learned after her
appointment last
week that Groscost
also is on it. "I
refuse to chair it
because he's on it,"
Leff said in an
interview Monday. "I
don't want to have a
member of a
committee that I
chair that I don't
feel I can trust."" |
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Nov. 25, 2003 |
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Costly Plan To
Promote
Alternative
Fuels Jolts
Arizona |
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"Jeff
Groscost,
the speaker
of the
Arizona
House of
Representatives
and the
creator of
the
incentives
with a
92-page
amendment to
the Arizona
Clean Air
Act of 2000
during a
late-night
conference
committee
meeting in
April, is
under
increasing
scrutiny for
his
financial
involvement
with
industries
benefiting
from the
bill's
passage. Mr.
Groscost, a
Republican
who ran
Senator John
McCain's
presidential
campaign in
Arizona,
first denied
and then
admitted
last week
that he had
leased or
bought two
vehicles
from
companies
run by
Nathan
Learner, a
businessman
engaged in
gas-to-alternative-fuels
conversions.
Mr. Groscost
also first
denied, then
admitted,
that he was
taking
advantage of
the tax
incentives
provided by
the bill on
a vehicle he
leased" |
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Nov. 2, 2002 |
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Not Getting
Alternative-Fuel
Fiasco Fuels
Anger In Arizona |
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""This is an
embarrassment
to the whole
Republican
Party,"
Sen. David
Petersen said.
"Not only do
we have the
speaker
involved, we
have a
number of
legislators
who voted
for it and a
governor who
didn't catch
this early
on." [...]
House Speaker Jeff
Groscost,
the
program's
chief
architect,
faces ethics
scrutiny because
he has
purchased
and leased
several
vehicles
from a
conversion
company
whose
president
was involved
with
drafting the
law.
Groscost has
denied he
personally
profited
from his
work on the
issue and
said his
only motives
were to
reduce air
pollution
and
dependence
on foreign
oil." |
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Oct. 31,
2000 |
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Master Of The
House |
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"There's a
rumor going
around that Jeff
Groscost is
brilliant.
Yes, that
Jeff
Groscost--Speaker
of the House
of
Representatives,
King of the
Mouth
Breathers. The
guy who was
once
stripped of
his
leadership
role because
he couldn't
be bothered
to file his
campaign-finance
reports on
time, the
one who
wanted to
put a $500
bounty on
the head of
the
endangered
Mexican
wolf." |
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Feb. 25,
1999 |
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Four
Lawmakers
Seek
`Exoneration’
Of Lyndon
LaRouche |
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"Four
Arizona
lawmakers,
including a
Tucson
Democrat,
have signed
a petition
being sent
to President
Clinton
seeking the
“exoneration’
of extremist
politician Lyndon
LaRouche.
Signing the
document
were Reps.
Jorge
Garcia,
D-Tucson; David
Farnsworth,
R-Globe; Jeff
Groscost,
R-Mesa; and Rusty
Bowers,
R-Mesa.
LaRouche,
who was
convicted of
fraud and
tax
conspiracy,
spent five
years behind
bars before
being
released
last year.
He claims he
was
victimized
by a
government
conspiracy
aimed at
curtailing
his
influence.
Groscost, a
former
majority
whip in the
Arizona
House, said
he was
contacted
about
supporting
LaRouche
about two
months ago." |
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Jun. 30,
1995 |
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