Arizona’s Governor and Treasurer continue to escalate their political feud over the constitutionality of executive agency nominees.
After Governor Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, announced her decision to withdraw her remaining agency nominees for Senate confirmation, Treasurer Kimberly Yee, a Republican, revealed that during last week’s State Board of Investment meeting, she “did not recognize employees from the Arizona Department of Administration or the Arizona Department of Insurance and Financial Institutions as legally participating members due to the recent actions of the Governor.”
Yee’s action led to political fireworks from the Governor’s Office with a press release calling out the State’s Treasurer for “falling in line with extremist Jake Hoffman’s decision to participate in partisan obstructionism.” The fiery communication from Hobbs’ Office asserted that Yee “broke the law and refused expert advice from professionals in order to play political games with taxpayer money, shirking her responsibilities as the State Treasurer.”
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