Maricopa County Supervisor Mark Stewart is backtracking on his position of support for following Arizona’s election laws and has filed a request for a stay in the matter of Heap v. Galvin, et al.
On Monday, Stewart filed a formal response with the court requesting immediate, court-ordered mediation in the ongoing legal dispute over county election responsibilities.
In his filing, Stewart does not support an open-ended stay. He instead is looking for “a short-term stay to allow mediation to proceed by using a court-appointed mediator and a timeline to bring all parties to the table within the next two weeks.”
Stewart said in his announcement of the court filing that he “appreciates the work his Board colleagues and the Recorder have dedicated to this complex issue.”
“While he holds a differing perspective on the path forward, he recognizes they all share a common goal of providing best-in-class elections to Maricopa County voters that are reliable, secure, and transparent,” concluded Stewart’s announcement.
In late April, Stewart’s colleagues on the Board of Supervisors voted to appeal a judge’s decision that said Heap’s office was in control of critical election functions.
Heap criticized the supervisors while maintaining a civil tone and pledging to work with them to restore confidence in elections.
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In Heap v. Galvin, et al., Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Scott Blaney ruled that Heap’s office was in control of critical election functions and that the board’s continued control of the recorder’s “IT [information technology] staff, servers, databases, software and websites” prevents Heap from carrying out “his statutory duties independently.”
Blaney added that it “constitutes an unlawful usurpation of the Recorder’s statutory authority.”
The judge also said Heap “has consistently expressed willingness to cooperate with the Board.”
“The Court does not see the same willingness from the Board,” he noted.
“Supervisor Stewart needs to decide whether he is for election integrity or not,’ one political consultant told the Arizona Daily Independent. “Right now, he just looks like a guy who doesn’t know what he wants except to please no one.”
Stewart is the only one I trust. The other 4, especially criminal Lesko, seem to only care about themselves and not about the 4.5 million people of Maricopa County. This was the issue when Hickman, Gates, Sellers, and was on the board. But this is what the county gets when they keep electing the very exact people for these positions. Maricopa County will not get any better until the people of the county realize this.
The Arizona DNC/RINO Election Fraud Machine is gigantic. That is its strength, but it is also its weakness. Phoenix FBI already has an active investigation, seizing election records.
With so many election fraud operators in play, statistically, some will succumb to their conscience (or pragmatism) and make a deal with the FBI. Those who make the deal will get leniency, and those who don’t will go down hard.
If any election fraud operators are reading this, listen up; now is the time to call 1-800-CALL-FBI and make the deal before someone else does and turns YOU in.
And the people are consistently not served. But it is their own fault. Not studying who they vote for is a neglect of citizen duties. No person should vote without studying candidates, their past actions, and checking their competence. Most elected officials are incompetent for their roles.
When the people elect someone to office, it is the duty of other elected officials to work with that person within the system, not use the system to circumvent the will of the people.
If it turns out the people made a mistake (we often do), let the chips fall, without interfering.
Only one conclusion from these unprecedented shenanigans trying to keep the “IT” (emails) away from Heap: Maricopa Board of Supervisors are crooks.
What are they hiding?
Keep dragging it out through legal maneuvering all in the name of a power struggle…Two-faced and childish!!