It is time for another Arizona politics bedtime story! Undercover FBI
agents running a fake real estate company bought former Tempe City
Councilman and current state Representative Ben Arredondo a few thousand
dollars’ worth of tickets to baseball and football games. He loved this
gesture so very much that in return, “Arredondo brokered meetings
between the undercover agents and other public officials, divulged
information regarding the city of Tempe’s bidding process, and attempted
to persuade other city officials to approve the purported development
project,” allegedly, according to the indictment. If it’s this cheap
to buy off corrupt Arizona politicians, shouldn’t the local underfunded
public school science clubs hold a few dozen bake sales and take the
proceeds over to the nearest elected official and get, say, a particle
collider to put behind the gymnasium? READ MORE »
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