WASHINGTON, DC – In Arizona’s already messy GOP primary for attorney general, special interest groups are trying to influence who sits in the Arizona AG seat. The latest ad for GOP candidate Warren Petersen is backed by GEO Group, who is being sued over reports of inhumane conditions at their ICE facilities.

As the Arizona Mirror reported, “‘Follow the money and the motive is obvious,’ DJ Quinlan, consultant for Mayes’ reelection campaign, said in a statement to the Arizona Mirror. ‘BoaVida—the company Attorney General Mayes is currently suing for leaving Arizona families in dangerous, sweltering conditions—just became the single largest funder of Republican Warren Petersen. GEO Group, sitting on a billion-dollar federal detention contract, is right behind them. This primary race is tied, and Warren Petersen’s corporate backers are desperately spending big to install an Attorney General who won’t hold them accountable. Arizonans should ask what these companies expect in return.’”

The attorney general should always be a lawyer for the people, not a lawyer for greedy corporations who put peoples’ lives at risk. And if Petersen can be easily bought, he shouldn’t be anywhere near the office.

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