Arizona
Watch: Arizona AG Kris Mayes talks Super Bowl safety, more
PHOENIX — Arizona Lawyer Common Kris Mayes has been on the job for a couple of month and there was no scarcity of labor to be achieved, particularly with Tremendous Bowl LVII proper across the nook.
Mayes joins KTAR Information 92.3 FM’s The Mike Broomhead Present on Friday to debate security for the large recreation in Glendale, threats which were levied towards election employees and extra.
The Tremendous Bowl returns to Arizona in simply over per week, bringing 1000’s of individuals from throughout the nation to the nation’s hottest annual sporting occasion.
Election threats made towards employees, together with within the state’s most populous county, have continued to be launched to the general public just lately.
Earlier this week, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Clint Hickman issued an announcement denouncing threats after audio circulated online (WARNING: specific language) of any person telling a Maricopa County elections employee “somebody ought to shoot you within the head.”
Mayes, a Democrat, defeated Republican Abraham Hamadeh in November in what was the closest statewide election in Arizona historical past.
Her margin over Hamadeh was confirmed at simply 280 votes by an computerized recount of greater than 2.5 million ballots in December.