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AZ Corporation Chairman Accused of Stomping on Civil Rights

Arizona Corporation Commissioner Paul Newman

Phoenix AZ (July 13, 2011)-In a written statement issued to the public from the desk of Arizona Corporation Commissioner Paul Newman and printed here without comment by SedonaEye.com, Commissioner Newman writes the following of a recent Arizona Corporation Commission event and the Chairman’s request for action:  

 

“I will not subject my staff or myself to a warrantless search where there is no crime. I have practiced law in Arizona since 1988, and firmly believe in the 4th Amendment right of citizens to be free of improper searches under the U.S. and Arizona Constitution. I was in Tucson – not Phoenix – during the time in question. 

I have taken an oath to uphold the Constitution, and that is what I plan to do.  

Apparently the Chairman is under the influence of political hysteria. The police report says a few scraps of a green plant material were found mixed with $5.85 in coins in a restroom accessible to dozens of Commission employees. No one knows how it got there or when it occurred. The police are “not pursuing a case.” 

Nonetheless, the Chairman wants this non-case to be pursued by police dogs and privacy invasions. This is a gross violation of legal process, good sense and the constitutional and privacy rights of everyone. It is excessive beyond reason. 

There are many important issues before us this week:  whether we will burn trash and pretend it’s ‘clean’ energy, thus killing solar in Mohave County until 2023; whether we will give ‘free transmission footage’ to properties not located near power lines; and the fact that we’ve run completely out of solar rebates for APS six months before additional funds will be available.  

One million Arizonans are on food stamps; the jobs reports are not good and people are hurting. Germans call my office to ask us why we have so little solar in the sunniest state in the U.S., while Germany has half the world’s installed solar. Why don’t we study the effects of sending $3 billion/year to Texas and New Mexico for coal and natural gas, yet spend only $150 million/year on solar? 

Let’s grow up and work on the people’s business – not grandstand and stomp on civil rights.”

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