Comments on: Goddard retaliating against Arpaio for bribery investigation

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:20:03 +0000

Yeah C’mon people. Let’s not let our zeal for taking out Goddard blind us to buying into Candy Ass Thomas’s allegations about Peterson. Peterson is a good man.

By: Carlos Merchant

Carlos Merchant — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:24:35 +0000

I really cannot say it better than azslim. You are way off base here “Ted”

By: azslim

azslim — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:58:45 +0000

While Goddard is ceratinly guilty of going after numerous Republican elected officials for political reasons, you are just regurgitating the same old lies about Petersen. You should be more careful about what “facts” you keep parroting about this situation; otherwise, you do nothing but discredit yourself. The entire transcsipt of the tape you reference is available from the media (and from Arpaio), and everyone I know that has read it views it as much ado about nothing. It is unintelligible in most parts, and nearly all of it has very little to do with your allegations of “bribery”. I would think that our great party leader and rat pack Treasurer have more important things to do than slander the former Treasurer for things that did not happen, and that will never be proven. Perhaps you should grow a pair and ask Petersen himself what ocurred. But then again, I have to remind myself that you are only a lazy blogger with no journalistic integrity whatsoever.

As to the disucssion of the payback from Goddard, I can only say that it is an obvious retributive move, but can Thomas expect anything less from Goddard?

For a lesson in real journalism, and an expose of Goddard and his spate of investigations of Republican public officials (Petersen, Ross, etc.) I would suggest that you pay attention to an investigative article coming out in the Tribune in the next few weeks about the subject. Then, perhaps, I can expect better analysis, and less conjecture and wild speculation, from your forthcoming posts.

By: boredinaz

boredinaz — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:27:04 +0000

That’s a nice story you have there except it isn’t true.

As Rob Robb points out, Arpaio is getting the vast majority of the money from the case that was transferred. http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/94/2130
And Pima County turned down the transfer of the civil case. http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/PluggedIn/2247

Oh, and it was the State Bar’s ethics counsel who told Goddard to transfer the cases to avoid an ethical conflict in the first place. http://www.azag.gov/press_releases/june/2007/AGOTransfersCases.pdf