Investigators with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office today raided the office of lobbyist Gary Husk, who has been implicated in the Fiesta Bowl scandal.

Republican lawmakers’ dormant war with the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission is flaring up anew, as House Speaker Andy Tobin has introduced a host of measures that would set a special election so voters could decide whether to use legislative and congressional maps drawn by the Legislature instead of those approved last month by the volunteer panel.

President Barack Obama will be in Arizona the day after the State of the Union address as part of a five-state, three-day tour.

Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, who is wrapping up an eight-month investigation into the Fiesta Bowl scandal, will ask lawmakers to overhaul the state’s lobbying laws, saying financial reporting requirements are confusing and out of touch with what he believes the public demands of its elected officials.

“If it’s too much of a burden for an elected official to keep the public informed … they shouldn’t be in office,” the county’s top prosecutor told the Arizona Capitol Times. “If you don’t want to do this, then go do something else.”

State police said Friday that they are checking the security of the agency’s computer system after an attack by hackers and they are investigating to determine the extent of the infiltration.

The first and second floors of the Capitol Executive Tower were evacuated Friday after a suspicious package was left at the Arizona Department of Homeland Security.

The U.S. Supreme Court blocked Arizona’s Clean Elections system from distributing matching funds, throwing a number of high profile campaigns into disarray just weeks before candidates were to start receiving money.

It looks like Buz Mills just made a huge campaign contribution to his opponents. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on May 21 upheld the matching funds provision of Arizona’s Clean Elections system, a ruling that will likely inject millions of dollars into the governor’s race and other high-profile campaigns.

The executive tower was reopened about one hour after a suspicious envelope filled with white powder prompted a lockdown of the building.

Legislative leaders say the governor exceeded her constitutional authority in some of her line-item vetoes of budget bills this month, but they decided against taking the matter to court.

Gov. Jan Brewer said she “absolutely” stands by her action, adding she didn’t give much thought to the lawmakers’ statement that she doesn’t have authority to line-item veto items that don’t have to do with appropriations.