TIMING IS EVERYTHING: Resignation of Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel Sets The Stage

Intro: We can probably expect more action from behind-the-scenes that started with creating a vacancy in the state attorney's office when Governor Doug Ducey appointed then officeholder Bill Montgomery to a new job on the Arizona Supreme Court in an underground cloaked-in-secrecy swearing-in-ceremony for the new justice where news reporters were not permitted access.

The void was filled by using the governor's powers of appointment to select Allister Adel in a more public swearing-in ceremony as the job holder for a couple of months until the next general election. She was the first woman to gain office.

On that night some problems hit the headlines that started a public reaction when Adel fell down after sleeping during the vote count.

 

BLOGGER INSERT: THE ELECTION WAS CLOSE. VERY CLOSE On the night of the 2020  election, Adel suffered a brain aneurysm after falling in her home and hitting her head

Adel's resignation creates an opportunity for the Board of Supervisors to name a Republican, as required by state law, so the Office of Maricopa County Attorney can "turn itself around".

That suggests the appointment of an insider.

FIRST A FLASH-BACK

NEW AZ ATTORNEY GENERAL

Board appoints new Maricopa County Attorney

Allister Adel sworn in Oct. 3 following unanimous vote

By Matt Roy
Twitter: @AzNewsmedia

 

Allister Adel, fourth from right, was appointed Maricopa County Attorney by the Board of Supervisors Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019.

Posted Thursday, October 3, 2019 7:36 pm

 

Please take the time to find out more about the work history and background of the new Maricopa County Attorney ....there's not much in the article by Matt Roy

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Here's a summary of the logistics - with excerpts - reported by AZ Mirror's Jeremy Duda on the topic of CRIMINAL JUSTICE & POLICING

Criminal Justice & Policing

Allister Adel resigns as Maricopa County attorney as scrutiny intensifies

(Image Credit: Allister Adel. Photo by Jeremy Duda | Arizona Mirror)

By: Jeremy Duda - March 21, 2022 12:42 pm

"Embattled Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel, who has been under increasing scrutiny due to a battle with alcohol addiction and high-profile snafus within her agency, will resign from office. Adel announced that she’ll step down at the end of the week, on March 25. In a press statement on Monday, Adel didn’t address the controversies swirling around her tenure, using her announcement to thank supporters and employees of the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. . .The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors will appoint a new county attorney to replace Adel. It’s unclear what the timeline will be for that process. The supervisors on Monday scheduled a special election for the office, which will be concurrent with the previously scheduled Aug. 2 primary election and Nov. 8 general election. Whoever wins that election will serve out the remaining two years of the four-year term Adel was elected to in 2020. . .

The timing of Adel’s resignation means the county will have to hold an election for the final two years of her term in office. The county attorney’s office wouldn’t normally be up for election until 2024. But state law dictates that a special election must be held if a vacancy occurs with more than two years remaining in the term, and if the office becomes vacant before the filing deadline for candidates to run in that year’s election.

> Candidates for office in the 2022 primary election must file their nominating petitions to qualify for the ballot by April 4. That means if an election must be held for county attorney this year, candidates will only have a maximum of 15 days to collect signatures on their petitions. Republican candidates must collect more than 4,500 signatures and Democratic candidates must collect a minimum of about 4,300. . ."

Reference for more details >> https://www.azmirror.com/2022/03/21/allister-adel-resigns-as-maricopa-county-attorney-as-scrutiny-intensifies 

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1 Timeline: September 2019

It's Official! Secret Swearing-In Ceremony for Ducey's 5th Appointment to AZ Supreme Court

Image from the governor's Twitter
account twitter.com/dougducey

Here's some parts of the story from AZMirror.com :
"The governor’s office never announced that Bill Montgomery, the former JAG and Maricopa County Attorney, would be sworn in Friday, and only confirmed the swearing in after the fact, when Gov. Doug Ducey tweeted out a photo of the swearing in ceremony congratulating Montgomery and calling him “one of the finest County Attorneys (sic) our state has known
The swearing in was brought to the attention of the media by Hank Stephenson, a veteran journalist who edits the political insider tipsheet Yellow Sheet Report. He reported on Twitter Friday morning that sources had told him that Montgomery would be sworn in privately and the ceremony would be attended only by family and friends"

Looks like Governor Ducey likes to feed the public 'dog-food' on his Twitter account - stone cold silent and after the secret swearing-in when reporters with the Arizona Mirror, Arizona Capitol Times, The Arizona Republic and 12 News all attempted to get access to the swearing in, but were told that it was a private ceremony. 

Bill Montgomery sworn in during private ceremony

By Jerod MacDonald-Evoy September 6, 2019

< Here's the opening image and this caption:
"Bill Montgomery, after being sworn in as a supreme court justice, walks past reporters in the basement of the Executive Tower. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona Mirror."
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". . . Montgomery served as Maricopa county attorney since 2010, and faced stiff opposition and criticism on his way to the highest court in the state. 

Montgomery was escorted out of the Executive Tower by the basement, flanked by family and security as he walked briskly by the press. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bill Montgomery sworn in during private ceremony

By Jerod MacDonald-Evoy September 6, 2019

< Here's the opening image and this caption:

"Bill Montgomery, after being sworn in as a supreme court justice, walks past reporters in the basement of the Executive Tower. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona Mirror."
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". . . Montgomery served as Maricopa county attorney since 2010, and faced stiff opposition and criticism on his way to the highest court in the state. 

Montgomery was escorted out of the Executive Tower by the basement, flanked by family and security as he walked briskly by the press. 

 

 

 

 

Newly sworn in Supreme Court Justice Bill Montgomery leaving the Capitol after a private and secretive swearing in ceremony.

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Newly sworn in Supreme Court Justice Bill Montgomery sped away from the Capitol after a private swearing in ceremony. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona Mirror.

As he left the building’s underground parking garage, Montgomery peeled out and sped past reporters

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 Timeline: December 2019

Maricopa County Board of Supes Turns Assessor Petersen Suspension Prosecution Over to Adel Allister

This case gets more suspicious and more intriguing all the time! Does the new County Attorney look up to the new responsibilities now thrown at her? It sure doesn't look like it in the opening image cropped from her swearing-in ceremony with Steve Chucri looking over her shoulders in the background. Her own expression doesn't appear to exude any confidence, but rather a restrained sense of purpose after she got propelled into the position when former county attorney Bill Montgomery resigned to gain a seat on the Arizona Supreme Court. Arizona politics at its best!

O Lordy!! This case is getting more suspicious all the time ... there are now more "revelations" brought into the light of public scrutiny that appears be missing on salient data and details and the skewed focus of media attention.
Last Friday reports were in that Paul Petersen's county-owned Microsoft Surface Pro notebook had been 'wiped-clean' of data not just once but on two occasions - in the office! 

In a sprawling county where Rampant Unrestrained Real Estate Speculation is King - and the Main Driver of The Economic Engine - attention has instead turned to the allegations of private for-profit adoptions by Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen whose public office [daytime job] is responsible for valuations and recordings exceeding over $508,000,000,000 in transactions.

Media reporting have somehow stayed clear of the 'Big Elephant' and the BIG TEMPTATION that runs with getting appointed and elected to the office of the Maricopa County Assessor's Office.
There's just too much at stake . . .but let's leave that to another day.
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3 Timeline: December 2021

Over-Due Fall-Out from A Home Fall-Down on Election Night

This is 'a developing story' - one more from here in Maricopa County Arizona. Here was the 'official story' back then

 

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Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel seeking treatment for alcohol use, eating disorder

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Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel has announced she's entering treatment for stress, anxiety, an eating disorder and alcohol use

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Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel Seeking Treatment For Anxiety, Alcohol Use

By Vaughan Jones

Published: Friday, September 10, 2021 - 3:27pm

Updated: Saturday, September 11, 2021 - 6:03pm

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Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel announced Friday that she is seeking treatment to address her mental health and unhealthy coping behaviors.Adel says that throughout the past year, she has struggled with anxiety, an eating disorder and alcohol use.

In an official statement, Adel says she will remain in daily contact with the County Attorney’s Office to ensure work continues.Adel says this past year has been difficult for her “medically, professionally and personally” and asked constituents for patience during her recovery.

BLOGGER INSERT: THE ELECTION WAS CLOSE. VERY CLOSE

On the night of last year’s presidential election, Adel suffered a brain aneurysm after falling in her home and hitting her head.

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TESTS & MEASUREMENTS: White Privilege Does Not Exist in America

Intro: Yesterday was another chance to see the GOP’s culture-war topic du jour. If the argument can be made based on color alone, the Tennessee Senator made her glaring choice of selecting her dress wardrobe clear to see perhaps not realizing that "Orange is the New Black".

Simply declaring her argumentative statement that white privilege does not exist in America is a blatant denial of discrimination

Politics News March 21, 2022 6:13PM ET 

Marsha Blackburn Lectures First Black Woman Nominated to Supreme Court on ‘So-Called’ White Privilege

The Republican from Tennessee suggested to Ketanji Brown Jackson that it’s merely a coincidence that only 2 of America’s 114 Supreme Court justices have been Black

   

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Ryan Bort

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) speaks during a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson before the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Monday, March 21, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.   AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool

The confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson began on Monday and, as expected, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee were a little concerned about President Biden’s pick to replace Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) went so far as to suggest to Jackson, a Black woman, that white privilege doesn’t exist in America, a country where of the 114 justices to have been confirmed to sit on the highest court in the land, only two have been Black.

“You serve on the board of a school that teaches kindergartners, five-year-old children, that they can choose their gender, and that teaches them about so-called white privilege,” Blackburn said after bashing the “radical left.”

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) accuses Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of sitting on the board of a school that teaches students about “so-called white privilege.” pic.twitter.com/Ms4azyVEmc

— The Recount (@therecount) March 21, 2022

Blackburn continued to drill down on critical race theory, the GOP’s culture-war topic du jour. “You have praised the 1619 Project, which argues the U.S. is a fundamentally racist country, and you have made clear that you believe judges must consider critical race theory when deciding how to sentence criminal defendants,” she said. “Is it your personal hidden agenda to incorporate critical race theory into our legal system?”

Blackburn: Is it your personal hidden agenda to incorporate CRT into our legal system? pic.twitter.com/V0x3xd8EEr

— Acyn (@Acyn) March 21, 2022

Blackburn wasn’t the only Republican to touch on race on Monday. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) spent most of his opening statement whining about Democrats’ treatment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh after they wanted to question the then-nominee after he was credibly accused of rape, but he also echoed widespread GOP concern that Jackson’s skin color had more to do with her nomination than her credentials. “I want the Supreme Court to look more like the country, but I want it to operate within the confines of the Constitution,” he said.

The Washington Post pointed out on Sunday that, if confirmed, Jackson would be the only active Supreme Court justice to have attended an Ivy League law school, clerked for a Supreme Court justice, served as a public defender, served on the sentencing commission, served as a U.S. District Court judge, and served as a U.S. Court of Appeals judge.

She seems to be qualified."

 

 

 

Reference: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/marsha-blackburn-lectures-ketanji-brown-jackson-white-privilege-1324815/

 

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JOURNALISTS ONBOARD U.S. NAVY RECONNISANCE AIRCRAFT IN ONE OF THE MOST HOTLY CONTESTED REGIONS IN THE WORLD

INTRO: Aquilino spoke with the Associated Press onboard a US navy reconnaissance aircraft that flew near Chinese-held outposts in the South China Sea’s Spratly archipelago, one of the most hotly contested regions in the world.

During the patrol, the P-8A Poseidon plane was repeatedly warned by Chinese callers that it illegally entered what they said was China’s territory and ordered the plane to move away.

“China has sovereignty over the Spratly islands, as well as surrounding maritime areas. Stay away immediately to avoid misjudgment,” one of the stern radio messages said in a veiled threat.

But the US navy plane dismissed the multiple warnings and pressed on defiantly with its reconnaissance in brief but tense moments witnessed by two AP journalists invited onboard.

“I am a sovereign immune United States naval aircraft conducting lawful military activities beyond the national airspace of any coastal state,” a US pilot radioed back to the Chinese.

China has fully militarized three islands in South China Sea, US admiral says

the Guardian |

"John C Aquilino says Beijing is flexing its military muscle by arming isles with fighter jets, anti-ship systems and other military facilities

China has fully militarized at least three of several islands it built in the disputed South China Sea, arming them with anti-ship and anti-aircraft missile systems, laser and jamming equipment and fighter jets in an increasingly aggressive move that threatens all nations operating nearby, a top US military commander said Sunday.

US Indo-Pacific commander Admiral John C Aquilino said the hostile actions were in stark contrast to the Chinese president Xi Jinping’s past assurances that Beijing would not transform the artificial islands in contested waters into military bases. The efforts were part of China’s flexing its military muscle, he said.

“Over the past 20 years we’ve witnessed the largest military buildup since world war two by the PRC,” Aquilino told the Associated Press in an interview, using the initials of China’s formal name. “They have advanced all their capabilities and that buildup of weaponization is destabilizing to the region.”

There were no immediate comments from Chinese officials. Beijing maintains its military profile is purely defensive, arranged to protect what it says are its sovereign rights. But after years of increased military spending, China now boasts the world’s second-largest defense budget after the US and is rapidly modernizing its force with weapons systems including the J-20 stealth fighter, hypersonic missiles and two aircraft carriers, with a third under construction. . . .“China has sovereignty over the Spratly islands, as well as surrounding maritime areas. Stay away immediately to avoid misjudgment,” one of the stern radio messages said in a veiled threat.

Aquilino said the construction of missile arsenals, aircraft hangars, radar systems and other military facilities on Mischief Reef, Subi Reef and Fiery Cross appeared to have been completed but it remained to be seen if China would pursue the construction of military infrastructure in other areas.

“The function of those islands is to expand the offensive capability of the PRC beyond their continental shores,” he said. “They can fly fighters, bombers plus all those offensive capabilities of missile systems.”

. . .As the P-8A Poseidon flew near the Chinese-occupied reefs, some appeared to house multi-story buildings, warehouses, hangars, seaports, runways and radars. Near Fiery Cross, more than 40 vessels could be seen apparently anchored. . .

Admiral John C Aquilino (left) commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command, looks at videos of Chinese structures and buildings on board a US P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance plane flying in the South China Sea on Sunday. Photograph: Aaron Favila/AP

He said any military and civilian plane flying over the disputed waterway could easily get within range of the Chinese islands’ missile system.

“So that’s the threat that exists, that’s why it’s so concerning for the militarization of these islands,” he said. “They threaten all nations who operate in the vicinity and all the international sea and airspace.”

China sought to shore up its vast territorial claims over virtually the entire South China Sea by building island bases on coral atolls nearly a decade ago. The US responded by sending its warships through the region in what it calls freedom of operation missions. The US has no claims itself but has deployed navy ships and aircraft for decades to patrol and promote free navigation in international waterway and airspace.

China routinely objects to any action by the US military in the region. The other parties – the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei – claim all or part of the sea, through which approximately $5tn in goods are shipped every year.

Despite China’s aggression, the long-simmering territorial conflicts should only be resolved peacefully, Aquilino said, and cited the Philippine government’s successful move to bring its disputes with China to international arbitration in 2013 as a good template."

READ MORE DETAILS AND MORE NEWS GO HERE >> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/21/china-has-fully-militarized-three-islands-in-south-china-sea-us-admiral-says