BREAKING: Maricopa County Supervisors Holding Special Monday Meeting For Legal Advice Re: Election Audit, More (ARIZONA LEGAL SHORTS)

10am: BREAKING: Maricopa County Supervisors Holding Special Monday Meeting For Legal Advice Re: Election Audit, More

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors will hold their 19th Special (and/or Emergency Special) Meeting of the year this coming Monday to discuss the State Senate's ongoing election audit and other election-related matters.

The meeting starts at 9:30am with a hearing and approval of the County's budget. They will then go into a Special Executive Session, which means there will then be no live-streaming or public input. They are slated to get legal advice and discuss "election authority and responsibility re: compliance with Senate subpoena". Interestingly, they list four different election-related items to get the legal advice.

The decision to schedule the meeting would appear to be to prepare for different case scenarios, depending on the possible announcements from State Senate President Karen Fann and the Cyber Ninjas about their findings. 

 8:30am: RELEASE THE KRAKEN...ATTORNEY: Alex Kolodin Plans To Run For State House Seat

The Arizona attorney who worked with Sidney Powell and the Trump team to bring several of the lawsuits claiming widespread fraud in Maricopa County's November elections wants to be on next year's ballot. Alex Kolodin last night filed a Statement of Interest to run for one of the State House seats in Legislative District 23.

Kolodin intends to run as a Republican and hopes to take the slot currently occupied by Rep. John Kavanagh (R). (Kavanagh is aiming to move back to the State Senate.) This is his 2nd attempt to get to the legislature; he lost to Michelle Ugenti-Rita in the 2020 Senate primary.

Kolodin not only worked on several of the cases that unsuccessfully tried to un-do Donald Trump's loss in Arizona by alleging unsubstantiated fraud, but he briefly represented the Cyber Ninjas in the election audit case. Kolodin caused the first judge to recuse himself, unsuccessfully tried to keep his filings under seal, and was replaced (by Wilenchik & Bartness) on the second day of hearings. (The judge had to kick him out of the hearing after they tried to use the switch to delay the case.)

LD23 contains part of North Scottsdale, Fountain Hills and the surrounding area.

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