Jake Hoffman

Attorney General Chris Mays previously concluded there was no evidence Hobbs influenced the payment decision.

Senator Jake Hoffman originally announced the Senate investigation in September, but stepped aside amid scrutiny of his political consulting firm's financial connections to advertising supporting Republican gubernatorial candidate Andy Biggs.

Farnsworth says there will be no further public updates until after the election.

A legal effort to force a new review of groundwater supplies in the upper San Pedro Basin has reached the end of the road at the Arizona Supreme Court.

Yeah.

And notably, the sponsor of this legislation was, um, Republican Senator Jake Hoffman, who also was, like, one of the lone holdouts on the Republican Senate this year on Flock, uh, legislation-

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... because he thought it didn't go far enough to restrict Flock, so.

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... that w- that were coming out? You know, big press conference, you know, Jake Hoffman in, in, in all his glory yelling and screaming and, and a, and a banner, you know, you know, cheating Katie Hobbs, you know, oh, it's gonna be an unbiased investigation.

Well, then he decided that having him lead it ju- just kind of screws things up, so he said, "I'm gonna give it to David Farnsworth, and I'm gonna bring in a former Supreme Court chief, uh, Supreme Court justice to kinda be our, our counsel." Okay.

Where are we?

In April 2024, an Arizona grand jury indicted 18 people for their involvement in efforts to fraudulently overturn the 2020 election after Joe Biden won the state by around 10,000 votes.

All of the fake electors involved in the scheme were indicted, including Arizona Senator Jake Hoffman, leader of the Arizona Freedom Caucus, former Arizona Senator Anthony Kern, member of the Arizona Freedom Caucus, and Tyler Bowyer, Turning Point USA CEO.

But in May, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sam Myers agreed with arguments from attorneys representing the fake electors that prosecutors failed to disclose the full text of the Electoral Count Act to the members of the grand jury prior to the indictment.

Myers ruled that Mayes would have to convene a new grand jury and share the text of the act in its entirety if she wanted to move forward with the case.

Good morning.

So, Chip, we saw this week that State Senator Jake Hoffman, who last week, I believe it was, announced that he was launching an investigation into the Sunshine residential case, the so-called pay-to-play scheme involving allegedly that he's alleging there are some improprieties there with Governor Katie Hobbs.

He says that he's now moving it to a different committee.

His committee is not going to handle it.

The governor is – The state party and the governor are so far apart that the entire operation, the coordinated campaigns going through the Navajo County Party.

So the fundamental premise that some contribution to Organization A helps the governor over here is wrong.

Optically, though, I mean, when you talk about the optics of Jake Hoffman, the optics of this were not good for the governor.

It's it.

morning.

OK, so Prop 320 was put on the ballot by conservative lawmakers like State Senator Jake Hoffman, Freedom Caucus, who argues that putting just over half of state funding toward the classroom is just not enough.

It doesn't seem like a lot, right, Wayne, if you kind of put it that way.

Where do districts spend their money?

And then the attorney general's office dismissed this, saying that they didn't have any evidence of wrongdoing.

The state legislature and a group led by Senator Jake Hoffman said, well, we're going to do our own investigation into this.

Well, then it came out that Hoffman is trying to help, I believe, Congressman Biggs win the race.

So Hoffman did the right thing and he stepped aside.

They have chosen Arizona Supreme Court Justice Andrew Gould will lead the Senate's investigation into the Sunshine residential homes, the Senate Republicans announced Monday.

The probe Republicans call pay-to-play scandal.

It was being led by Jake Hoffman from the Appropriations Committee and chaired by Senator David Farnsworth.

Gould will serve as special counsel.