The constant theme in Governor Katie Hobbs’s third State of the State Address before a joint session of the Arizona State Legislature was the need to work together to fulfill Arizona’s Promise. Whether invoking the legacies of Arizona political stalwarts like Sandra Day O’Connor, Bruce Babbit, Raul Castro, Barry Goldwater, and John McCain or saluting … Read more
“Most disastrous scam against Arizona taxpayers this state has ever seen.” “Grave lack of accountability.” “Rather than increase staffing to address reimbursement backlogs, they chose to run commercials…” “…Reinforcing a system fit for fraud.” “All parties should be alarmed and disgusted by this mishandling of taxpayer dollars.” Incoming Senate Democratic Leader Priya Sundareshan does not … Read more
Arizona’s Attorney General indicted an out-of-state couple on December 2 for fraudulently siphoning off $110,000 in state taxpayer funds through 43 ghost/phantom school vouchers (ESAs). Ignoring the fraud, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne notified the State Board of Education 10 days later that the state would immediately issue funds for all expense requests … Read more
The Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Program (ESA) private and home school voucher program is becoming quite the financial nest egg as a welfare program for the wealthy, home school families looking to fleece the system and a source of seed money for fraudsters inside and outside the Grand Canyon State. Today, the Arizona Attorney General’s Office … Read more
Since the Ducey Gubernatorial era that saw the expansion of the Empowerment Scholarship Program to universal access, there have been repeated reports by credible news organizations of widespread waste, fraud, and abuse in the system. Of course the original promise by the advocates of this expansion, that poor families could use the scholarship program to … Read more