22 May 2016

Former AZ Politician/Educator Mesa resident Richard Crandall Gets The Boot in Colorado

Dear readers, this will take some time to get through, so let's start with the most recent and most clear reporting first, followed by another one three days earlier and one going back to March 2011.
From the get-go - five years ago - any reasonable person might get curious about the overlapping roles of so-called "educators" [with no degree in teaching] becoming politicians who get entangled in questionable real estate deals or other irregularities,  then go back into education thanks to an illegal appointment and tendering his immediately-effective resignation admitting  "personal and professional limitations" . . . this went down two days ago!  With a big family to support he'll need to find another job sometime soon.
This all might have dropped out of the news or gone under-the-radar screen locally, except for what happened to Mesa resident Richard Crandall in conservative Colorado where he was Commissioner of Education for just four months, after nine months in the same position in the state of Wyoming.
Here's a report from The Colorado Independent
Why Colorado’s education commissioner quit

4 months after starting
Updated


Arizona politicians figure in Fiesta Bowl scandal

A report from an investigation commissioned by the Fiesta Bowl disclosed unseemly ties between the Scottsdale-based bowl and politicians, who included lawmakers who pushed legislation that benefited the Fiesta Bowl.
[AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin]
An investigation that revealed disturbing levels of corruption at the Fiesta Bowl entangled prominent Arizona political figures, . . 
Senate President Russell Pearce was a big recipient of the tickets and campaign donations from Fiesta Bowl employees, and his name is mentioned dozens of times in the report. Pearce, a veteran lawmaker who has drawn national prominence for sponsoring legislation against illegal immigration, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.
The Mesa Republican, Gov. Jan Brewer and U.S. Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl were in a bipartisan array of 23 federal, state and local candidates who the report said received contributions totaling at least $46,539 since 2002. The report said the bowl-affiliated donors were then illegally reimbursed for the donations by the bowl.
(However, there was no indication that any of the politicians who received the contributions knew of the secret reimbursement arrangement, the report said.)
In another political tentacle of the scandal, the report identified several lobbyists and political consultants
Sen. Rich Crandall, a Mesa Republican who was a representative at the time of the 2008 trip, said he asked about the propriety and that a bowl lobbyist assured him that the arrangement was traditional and proper.
“That was what we were told,” Crandall said. “Of course you look back now — what a naïve move on my part.”
Read more: http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/03/30/arizona-politicians-figure-in-fiesta-bowl-scandal/#ixzz49ClQoXjK

Education
  • M.B.A., University of Notre Dame, 1997
  • MA, Accounting, Brigham Young University, 1993
  • B.S., Accounting, Brigham Young University 1993

He is a Certified Public Accountant and he is the Founder and Chair of CN Resource and is also the CFO/Partner for Crandall Corporate Dietitians, and a managing member of Delos Development
 
He currently serves on the board of directors of digital marketing firm ChannelNet.
A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, he is married to Leann Larson Crandall and together they have 13 children (seven from Rich's first marriage to Patrice Webb and six from Leann's first marriage)
Crandall is a moderate Republican former member of the Arizona State Senate and Arizona House of Representatives.
Elected in 2007 to the House and 2010 to the Senate, he resigned from the Senate on August 16, 2013, and the seat was declared open when President of the Senate Andy Biggs (R) received his paperwork on August 20, 2013.






 

 
 
 
 

 

                                                                                             

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