This stemmed from indictments of people who are charged with defrauding AHCCCS. I spent time looking for ties to sitting legislators. I didn't find any (not saying there aren't any; I just didn't find them), but I thought there should be an easier way to do that...so I created a spreadsheet of the corporations and LLCs reported as owned by our 2024 state-level electeds and 2024 primary candidates for those offices, and the non-profits they report as being part of. "Report" means that something was included on the financial disclosure reports they submitted to the Arizona Secretary of State.
What's not included:
License information
Spousal information
Gift information
Travel information
Bond ownership information
Compensation information
Membership on publicly elected boards, such as public school boards
Appeals Court judges (they have to file with the AZ SOS)
County judges (they have to file with the AZ SOS)
County court commissioners (they have to file with the AZ SOS).
Candidates from non-major parties
What is included:
Name of elected or candidate
Reported name of corp, etc.
Reported title/position at the organization (a blank in that field means nothing was reported)
What the person is currently (name of office held or a candidate for an office)
Date (of the signature on the FinDisc form)
Only the most current FinDisc form was looked at; some officeholders have been in office for many years and filed many forms. Also, current officeholders and members of the Arizona Supreme Court were included. Federal officeholders/candidates don't have to file with the AZ SOS, so while Kari Lake's 2022 FinDisc is included (she ran for a state level office that year), Blake Masters' is not (he has only run for federal offices). Abe Hamadeh filed too, but didn't report ownership of any corps or affiliations with any non-profits.
Things I learned from doing this:
Many legislators profit from real estate - some are licensed brokers, have rentals, are appraisers, or are otherwise profit from real estate-adjacent activities. Also, many are attorneys.
Which goes a long way toward explaining why most legislative proposals benefit the real estate profiteer class and/or contain so many "poison pill" clauses that the measure has to be vetoed.
Also, most of the folks affiliated with legitimate non-profits are Democratic members/candidates (though it's not absolutely exclusive). On the other hand, most of the folks affiliated with ideological non-profits are Republicans.
Lastly, the forms are very uninformative for those reading them and seem to be very confusing for those completing them. Many officeholders did not report income from their offices yet many did.
Caveats:
It's possible, even likely, that I made one or more mistakes when compiling this. Any errors were unintentional and will be corrected when brought to my attention.
Also, this list was utterly dependent on what was reported. If something wasn't reported, it wasn't included.
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