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Far-right MAGA Republican extremist who served as
the 25th Attorney General of Arizona from 2011 to
2015. Horne lost to Mark Brnovich in the Republican
primary for Attorney General in 2014. He previously
served as the Arizona Superintendent of Public
Instruction from 2003 to 2011. Horne threatened to
sue the city of Bisbee, Arizona, over a 2013
ordinance recognizing same-sex couples. He withdrew
the threat several days later when Bisbee agreed to
rewrite the ordinance, removing rights reserved for
married couples under Arizona law. In October,
2014, a federal judge ruled that Arizona's law
banning gay marriage was unconstitutional, and Horne
did not appeal. He felt the chance of it being
overturned was "zero," and, added, "I think it is
over." On May 5, 2014, an attorney representing a
former AG staff member and ex-Horne campaign
volunteer, filed a litigation hold letter with the
Arizona Attorney General's office, alleging that
much of Horne's executive office staff is involved
in "substantial campaigning" for his 2014
re-election, "while on state time and utilizing
State resources," which, if proven true, could
"represent a substantial violation of State and
Federal laws which prohibit such conduct". The
allegations first arose in the AG staffer's letter
of resignation, which claimed that the office is
"not following campaign laws or finance laws,"
imperiling her "legal well-being." Horne has denied
the allegations, calling them a "complete
fabrication." On July 7, 2014, the Arizona Secretary
of State's Office released a memo, finding probable
cause that Horne violated several campaign-finance
laws related to allegations that Horne had employees
doing his campaign work on state time, at the AG's
office. Horne was elected as the State
Superintendent of Public Education in the 2022
General Election. |
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Tom Horne Kicked Out
Of Phoenix Polling
Site Where He Was
Gathering Signatures |
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Superintendent of
Public Instruction
Tom Horne was
kicked out of the
voting center at
Paradise Valley
Community College in
Phoenix on Tuesday
morning for
violating the
75-foot perimeter
that is intended to
ensure only certain
categories of people
are in the polling
area. Arizona law
limits polling
places to select
groups, including
voters who have not
cast their ballots,
election officials,
political party
monitors, voter
assistants and
minors accompanying
voters.
Violating the
perimeter
restrictions is a
Class 2 misdemeanor.
Horne, 79, was not
there to vote — he
said he was
collecting
signatures for his
2026 reelection
campaign. |
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Supt.
Tom
Horne
Feuding
With
Phoenix
School
District
Over
Black
Lives
Matter
Poster |
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"Arizona
Superintendent
of
Public
Instruction
Tom
Horne
and a
Phoenix
elementary
school
district
are
feuding
over a
Black
Lives
Matter
poster.
The
state’s
top
elected
education
official
thinks
the
Black
Lives
Matter
poster
signifies
the kind
of race
and
gender
politics
that get
in the
way of
academics,
while
Osborn
School
District
leaders
accused
him
misrepresenting
the
situation
and
bullying."
[ . . .
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acknowledged
that he
has no
power to
do
anything
about
the
situation,
although
he
raised
concerns
with the
Osborn
superintendent." |
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Arizona Promises
Cash To Help Poor
Students, Then
Unapologetically
Claws It Back |
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"Just as the school
year starts, the
Arizona Department
of Education has
unexpectedly yanked
funding from the
state's most
vulnerable
students." |
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Aug. 2, 2024 |
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Judge Orders Tom
Horne To Pay
$123,000 In Fees
After Arizona Dual
Language Case Tossed |
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"A judge has ordered
Tom Horne,
the Arizona public
schools chief, to
pay more than
$123,000 in
attorneys fees after
his lawsuit seeking
to bar English
learners from
participating in
dual language
programs was tossed.
Maricopa County
Superior Court Judge
Katherine Cooper
said in a May 28
ruling that Horne is
responsible for
paying the legal
fees incurred by
Gov. Katie Hobbs,
Attorney General
Kris Mayes and 10
school districts in
defending the
lawsuit filed
against them by
Horne in 2023." |
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Arizona
Superintendent
Greenlights
Far-Right
Ideological
Materials To
Teach Kids
In Public
Schools |
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:Arizona’s
education
chief and an
unaccredited,
conservative
media
company
announced
Wednesday
that the
state would
allow the
use of the
organization’s
ideological
content as
part of
approved
classroom
curriculum.
“We have a
partnership
with the
superintendent
of
education,
one, as well
as a bunch
of other
people who
have called
us into
Arizona,” PragerU CEO
Marissa
Streit told
Breitbart.
“Arizona in
particular,
it has been
a
battleground
because
people have
really
become very
aware and
very upset
about what
has happened
educationally
over there.”
[ . . . ] "Some
of their
more
controversial
offerings
have
received
national
attention—like an
animated
video where
abolitionist
Frederick
Douglas
tells
children
slavery was
a
“compromise”
and all US
Founding
Fathers
opposed the
practice
personally,
or that the
US Civil War
was fought
over state’s
rights." |
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AZ Schools
Chief
Falsely
Claims
Chandler
Schools Are
Dumbing Down
Their
Education |
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"Tom
Horne says
CUSD is
using
‘equity
math’ &
eliminating
AP courses
as part of a
‘left-wing’
plot. But
there’s no
evidence of
any of it." |
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Nov. 2, 2023 |
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Best
Wrong-Way
Political
Comeback -
Tom Horne |
"How
did
the
dodgiest
Arizona
Attorney
General
of
recent
memory
slime
his
way
back
into
public
office,
besting
incumbent
Democrat
Kathy
Hoffman
to
become
Arizona
Superintendent
of
Public
Instruction,
a
position Horne once
held
before
moving
over
to
the
AG's
office
in
2011?
Hoffman
was
a
bright,
fresh
face,
a
former
teacher
and
speech-language
pathologist
—
not
a
professional
politician.
And
her
administration
earned
plaudits
from
educators.
Horne,
on
the
other
hand,
was
plagued
with
ethical
issues
and
accusations
of
using
the
AG's
office
for
campaign
purposes.
The
low
point
of
his
tenure
as
AG
was
an
FBI
tail
on
his
car
as
he
headed
for
an
alleged
nooner
with
his
alleged
mistress.
Agents
spied
Horne-dog
hitting
another
car
in
the
parking
lot
adjacent
to a
Pita
Jungle.
He
later
pled
no
contest
to a
vehicular
hit-and-run,
a
misdemeanor.
Horne's
wrong-way,
down-ballot
win
in
2022
can
be
blamed
on
two
factors:
name
recognition
and
the
laziness
of
our
local
Fourth
Estate,
which
failed
to
inform
the
public
of
Horne's
checkered
past.
Has
Horne
grown
an
ethical
bone
in
recent
years?
Don't
bet
on
it.
At
least
he's
not
taking
up
space
in
the
AG's
office,
where
he
could
do
far
more
damage."
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Sep. 28,
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Tom Horne
Strikes
Alliance
With Moms
For Liberty
Over
Flipping
Arizona
School
Boards |
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"Arizona
Superintendent
of Public
Instruction Tom
Horne struck
an alliance
with Moms
for Liberty supporters
at an East
Valley event
Thursday
evening over
what he said
was a shared
goal: electing
conservatives
to school
boards in
2024.
"That's
going to be
my main
occupation
for 2024,"
Horne said."
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'The group
has since
become a
force in
school board
races across
the country
— and in
conservative
politics
more broadly
— and has
made
national
headlines
for attempts
to restrict
teaching and
student
access to
books
related to
race, gender
and sexual
orientation." |
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2023 |
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Tom Horne,
Conservative
Lawmakers To
Speak At
Moms For
Liberty Town
Hall In Mesa |
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"Superintendent
of Public
Instruction Tom
Horne and
other
Republican
elected
officials
are slated
to speak at
a Mesa town
hall
Thursday
organized
by Moms
for Liberty,
a "parental
rights"
organization
founded in
Florida that
has been
labeled an
extremist
group and
has made
national
headlines in
recent years
for attempts
to take over
school
boards and
restrict
teaching
related to
race, gender
and sexual
orientation."
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"State
lawmakers
Sen. Jake
Hoffman,
R-Queen
Creek, Sen. Justine
Wadsack,
R-Tucson,
Rep. Justin
Heap,
R-Mesa, and Barbara
Parker,
R-Mesa, are
expected to
participate
in a panel
at the
event. The
panel will
be moderated
by Descovich,
and
attendees
will be able
to ask
education-related
questions."
"Moms for
Liberty was
founded in
2021 by
Descovich
and Justice,
former
school board
members in
Florida, out
of
opposition
to
pandemic-related
school
closures and
mask
mandates.
Its chapters
have since
made
national
headlines
for attempts
to take over
school
boards,
explosive
appearances
at school
board
meetings and
efforts to
restrict the
teaching of
race and
gender-related
topics." |
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Horne
Cancels $70
Million In
COVID-19
Funding To
Set Up
Tutoring
Program |
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"State
schools
chief Tom
Horne is
canceling
millions of
dollars in
contracts
funded by
COVID-19 aid
that his
Democratic
predecessor
awarded to
Arizona
education
programs in
order to
funnel the
money into a
new tutoring
program for
struggling
students.
But the
tutoring
will help
only about
10% of the
students who
are falling
behind
academically." |
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Arizona
Schools
Chief
Targets
Transgender
Students And
Bathrooms |
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"State
Superintendent
of Public
Instruction Tom
Horne is
targeting
school
policies
dealing with
restrooms
and
transgender
students." |
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2023 |
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'Misogynistic, Sexist, And Really Disrespectful': New Arizona Education Hire Posts Far-Right Content Online |
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- Far-right personality Candace Owens claiming liberals want to destroy Western civilization
- A vulgar description of Canada's prime minister with environmental activist Greta Thunberg
- Joe Biden without a brain
- Women in bikinis brandishing semiautomatic weapons
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School
Superintendent
Candidate
Befriended,
Defended
Multiple
Alleged
Child Sex
Criminals |
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"Tom
Horne,
whose entire
campaign for
Arizona
Superintendent
of Public
Instruction
has been
marred by
his repeated
defense of
a child
molester apparently
associated
with his
campaign,
voted
against
harsher
penalties
for
statutory
rape while
serving as a
state
lawmaker and
voted twice
to reinstate
a teacher
who resigned
in disgrace
after
students
reported him
for looking
at
pornography
in the
classroom—including
of
minors—while
superintendent." |
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Arizona
Schools
Superintendent
Hoffman
Focuses On
Issues In
Debate While
Opponent
Horne
Decries
LGBTQ
Website And
CRT |
"The
Republican
candidate
for
Arizona's
top
educational
official is
lashing out
at incumbent
Kathy
Hoffman for
her agency's
decision to
promote a
web site for
LGBTQ and
"questioning
teens.''
"I think its
very
harmful,''
said Tom
Horne of
QChat during
a debate
Wednesday
for
superintendent
of public
instruction." |
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left, is
defending David
Stringer,
right, who
is working
on his
campaign but
has a
problematic
past.
(Arizona
Family) |
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AZ Head Of
Schools
Candidate
Defends
Disgraced
Ex-Lawmaker
Working On
His Campaign |
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"Tom
Horne, a
Republican
candidate
for Arizona
State
Superintendent
of Public
Instruction,
confirmed
that former
state Rep. David
Stringer,
who was at
one time
charged with
child sex
crimes, is
doing work
for his
campaign for
state
office."
[...] “David
Stringer
resigned in
disgrace
from the
legislature
to avoid
being
expelled
after
reports of
his molestation
of children came
to light.
And Tom
Horne counts
him as a top
campaign
ally and
donor. It’s
deeply
unsettling.” |
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2022 |
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Ethically/Legally
Challenged Tom
Horne Gives
Thanks To
Accused
Child Sex
Offender
David
Stringer |
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Arizona
Republican
Superintendent
of Public
Instruction
Nominee and
ethically/legally
challenged Tom
Horne has
chosen some
dubious
friends to
associate
himself with
in his
campaign to
reenter
public
office. In
an August 3,
2022 social
media post
(that has
since been
taken down,)
the former
Superintendent
and State
Attorney
General
gives thanks
to former
State
Legislator
and accused
child sex
offender David
Stringer for
supporting
his
campaign. |
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2022 |
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Arizona’s
Ban On
Mexican
American
Studies Was
Racist, U.S.
Court Rules |
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"the
program came
under
scrutiny in
2006 when
Dolores
Huerta, a
Latina labor
leader and
civic rights
activist,
gave a
speech at
Tucson High
School and
said that
“Republicans
hate
Latinos.” Tom
Horne,
then
Arizona’s
superintendent
of public
instruction,
labeled
Huerta’s
remarks as
“hate
speech.” He
ordered a
deputy to
make a
rebuttal
speech at
the school,
during which
protesting
students
taped their
mouths,
turned their
backs,
raised their
fists and
walked out
of the
auditorium." |
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2017 |
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On Trial,
Former
Arizona
Schools
Chief Says
Radicals
Taught
Ethnic
Studies
Program He
Later Banned |
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"Tom
Horne,
who ended a
popular
Mexican-American
history
program,
testified
that it
taught
students to
be
disruptive." |
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Jul. 19,
2017 |
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Ruling Gives Ex-Attorney General, Tom Horne, Chance To Avoid $1.2M Fine |
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By Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services May 25, 2017 Updated May 25, 2017 |
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| "PHOENIX -- The Arizona Supreme Court this morning gave former Attorney General Tom Horne another chance to escape a $1.2 million fine for campaign finance violations. |
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What Ever
Happened To
The
Investigations
Into Tom
Horne? |
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"More
than two
years have
passed since
then-Attorney
General Tom
Horne,
seeking
re-election
beneath a
cloud of
controversy,
lost the
Republican
primary to Mark
Brnovich.
A former
employee
turned
whistleblower
came forward
claiming
Horne was
using the
Attorney
General's
Office as a
de facto
campaign
headquarters,
with his
employees
planning
events,
contacting
donors and
doing other
work related
to the race
on state
time. Horne
denied the
allegations
and called
them
politically
motivated.
But no fewer
than two
separate
investigations
were
launched" |
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Philandering
Former
Arizona AG Tom
Horne Loses
Appeal,
Still On
Hook For
$400K |
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"Anyone
remember Tom
Horne?
You know,
the
Republican
political
zombie and
onetime
Arizona
Attorney
General who
hired his
girlfriend,
Carmen
Chenal, as
an assistant
attorney
general, got
himself
investigated
by the FBI,
and was
witnessed
riding
around town
with Chenal,
wearing a
trucker hat
as a
disguise, as
he pulled a
vehicular
hit and run
in a parking
lot without
leaving a
note? Yeah,
that guy.
Well, he's
still alive,
eking out a
living
practicing
law with his
former
defense
attorney
Sandra
Slaton and
dodging a
$400,000
fine levied
on him by
Yavapai
County
Attorney
Sheila
Polk." |
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Feb. 24,
2016 |
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Tom Horne
Scores New
Gig, And Why
He Still
Needs To Be
Punished |
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Jan. 23,
2015 |
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Arizona
Attorney
General Tom
Horne
Hobnobs With
Radical
Nullificationists |
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"Horne’s
staff has
confirmed to
the New
Times that
the attorney
general will
be attending
the “Liberty
on Tap”
event, so we
can move on
to
questioning
why
Arizona’s
top law
enforcement
officer will
be attending
an event
that appears
to promote
the radical
belief that
the county
sheriff is
the highest
law
enforcement
officer in
the nation
and has the
power to
ignore
federal laws
that he
thinks are
unconstitutional
and to
arrest
federal law
enforcement
officers." |
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Aug. 5, 2015 |
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Horne Vows
To Continue
'Crusade'
vs. Ethnic
Studies |
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""I went on
a crusade
against it
and
destroyed
the entire
program," Horne said
proudly." |
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Aug. 22,
2014 |
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Legal Woes
Pose Hurdles
For Attorney
General Tom
Horne Of
Arizona In
Campaign |
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Jul. 11,
2014 |
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Arpaio
Endorses
Horne's
Re-Election
Campaign |
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Jun. 17,
2014 |
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Top Aide To
Ariz.
Attorney
General Tom
Horne
Resigns |
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May 16, 2014 |
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Tom Horne
Campaign
Finance Case
To Move
Forward |
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May 14, 2014 |
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AG Horne's
Checkered
Past Might
Just Be
Enough For
Reelection |
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"Once again
we are being
told about
the
shenanigans
of
Republican
Arizona
Attorney
General Tom
Horne.
[...] Horne
has left a
trail of
stink dating
back to his
Massachusetts
law school
days forty
years ago. With
his history
of crookery
back east
one can only
wonder how
Horne ever
became a
lawyer in
Arizona
following
his serious
legal issues
involving
the U. S.
Securities
and Exchange
Commission?" |
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Oct. 29,
2013 |
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New Ethical
Complaint
Against
Arizona AG
Tom Horne |
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"The
Attorney
General's
Office has
doubled as a
campaign
office for
Arizona
Attorney
General Tom
Horne,
a former
employee
alleges,
with top
staff
working on
state time
to raise
money for
Horne's
re-election,
plan
campaign
events and
discuss
talking
points to
deploy
against his
challengers." |
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May 12, 2014 |
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State
Investigator
Files
Scorcher
Against
Arizona A.G.
Tom Horne |
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"Arizona
Attorney
General Tom
Horne defamed
and tried to
ruin the
career of a
state
criminal
investigator who
told the FBI
in good
faith that
she believed
Horne may
have
received
$500,000 in
illegal
campaign
contributions,
the woman
claims in
court." |
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Jan. 21,
2013 |
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Arizona AG
Tom Horne's
Sex Scandal
Scuttles
Gubernatorial
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"Picture
Elmer Fudd
as the lead
in Oliver
Stone's
Nixon, and
you've got
Arizona
Attorney
General Tom
Horne in
a nutshell.
Truly, the
FBI's
massive,
3,000-plus
page
investigative
file
detailing
its
year-long
probe of
Horne's
office reads
like a
tragicomic
novel
wherein a
powerful but
goofy
politician
does a
colossal
belly-flop
into a pool
of sleaze
and
chicanery,
ending any
likelihood
that he
could become
governor
someday." |
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Dec. 6, 2012 |
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FBI: AG
Horne Having
Affair When
Involved In
Hit-And-Run |
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Oct. 31,
2012 |
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Attorney
General
Horne Hired
Carmen
Chenal To A
Highly Paid
Top Post --
'Cause She's
His Goomba |
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"If you
needed the
services of
a criminal
attorney,
would you
hire a
lawyer with
no
experience
in criminal
law, who had
been
suspended
from the
State Bar of
Arizona for
120 days,
had not
practiced
law in five
years, and
who was
still on
probation
for her past
misdeeds?" |
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Jul. 14,
2011 |
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Here's What
The U.S.
Securities
And Exchange
Commission
Said About
Republican
AG Candidate
Tom Horne |
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"A February
14, 1973 SEC
document,
release
Number
10008, said
"Horne,
among other
things, (a)
failed
accurately
to make and
keep current
certain
books and
records, (b)
violated the
anti-fraud
provisions
of the
Federal
securities
laws, (c)
filed false
financial
reports with
the
Commission."" |
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Sep. 14,
2010 |
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Attorney-General
Candidate
Tom Horne
Denied 1970
Bankruptcy |
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"In a series
of annual
reports for
his law
firm,
Superintendent
of Public
Instruction Tom
Horne wrongly
denied
having a
bankruptcy
in his past.
Reports
filed with
the Arizona
Corporation
Commission
from 1997 to
2000 for
Horne's law
firm show
that when
asked if any
partner in
the firm had
ever been a
partner in a
business
that went
bankrupt,
Horne
checked "no"
and signed
the form.
In fact,
Horne was
the
president of
T.C. Horne &
Co., an
investment
firm that
went
bankrupt in
1970 and led
to him
receiving a
lifetime
trading ban
from the
Securities
and Exchange
Commission." |
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Jun. 20,
2010 |
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The Brains
Behind
Arizona’s
Ethnic
Studies Ban |
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May, 14,
2010 |
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| Arizona State Legislative Election 1996 National Political Awareness Test |
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| Position Sought: State Representative LD-24 |
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