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Man Who Wrote Arizona Immigration Law Under Investigation for Illegalities

Posted June 10, 2010 by Patrick Young, Esq.
Categories: Hate Watch

Kris Kobach, the primary author of the Arizona anti-immigrant law, is under investigation for possible illegalities of his own.

While Gov. Brewer likes to depict critics of SB 1070 as outsiders who should butt out of Arizona’s business, the fact is that Kobach is the ultimate outsider. He spent most of the last decade inside the beltway working for the Bush administration under his mentor John Ashcroft.

He more recently served as the state Republican Chairman. Not of Arizona, but of Kansas.

The sloppy record-keeping that occurred under his tenure as state party chairman is being uncovered in an audit by the Federal Election Commission. Here is a report from the Kansas City Star:

Office rent went unpaid for four months, according to people who had to help unravel the mess. Bank statements were unopened, much less reconciled. Invoices and receipts were missing and corporate contributions weren’t accounted for correctly. The once bountiful GOP coffers dwindled to less than $5,000.

The mismanagement happened when Kobach was the chairman and Christian Morgan was in charge as executive director. In a weird twist, Morgan is now a consultant for a rival secretary of state candidate.

As details emerged this week, both men behaved like bickering divorcing spouses, each pointing fingers of blame.

In all fairness, FEC filings are extremely complicated. Kobach concedes his error was naively trusting that the paperwork was being done competently.

Morgan blew off so many requests for more information that the FEC decided to hit the Kansas GOP with a full audit, covering January 2007 to December 2008.

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