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The Price of the Badge: How Corporate Interests Are Attempting to Buy Arizona's Top Cop

A private prison company with a billion-dollar federal detention contract and a mobile home park operator being sued for leaving families in dangerous conditions are pouring over half a million dollars into a PAC supporting Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen's campaign for Attorney General. This is a brazen and corrupt attempt by deep-pocketed special interests to purchase an Attorney General who will turn a blind eye to their abuses, undermining the rule of law and betraying the public trust for private profit.