AZ Representative Points Finger At House Speaker For Leaks Targeting Cook
In an email sent recently to Arizona State House members, Representative Noel Campbell of Prescott revealed that the office of House Speaker Rusty Bowers was involved in leaking information to the media, in what appears to be a deliberate attempt to do damage to State Representative David Cook. Cook has been targeted by a powerful lobbyist named Bas Aja , apparently for reasons related to ongoing disputes between Bas and his daughter, lobbyist AnnaMarie Knorr.
There have been two accusations of leaks: the first came from Bas Aja himself, who testified in court that private letters from Cook to Knorr, that had been stolen from her by her estranged husband and given to Aja, were not distributed in anonymous packages to members of the media by Aja, as most people believed. Rather, Aja told the court that he only gave the letters to Speaker Bowers and his Chief of Staff Michael Hunter. The prospect that the Speakers Office was the source of the letters provided to the media was quickly shot down by a spokesperson for the Speaker’s Office, who denied the accusation…
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