The attorney for a former Attorney General’s Office staffer who accused Tom Horne of using state resources and personnel to run his reelection campaign has filed a complaint with the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office.

Attorney Tom Ryan today submitted former AG staffer and Horne campaign volunteer Sarah Beattie’s complaint to the secretary of state’s office and Clean Elections Commission, formally alleging that she, Horne and most executive office staffers have been working on the AG’s re-election on taxpayer time.

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne should learn this week if a campaign finance case against him officially ends or it he must continue to fight the allegations.

A former Arizona Attorney General’s Office employee who did volunteer work for Tom Horne’s re-election said she and other employees routinely violated state laws by doing campaign work on taxpayer time, and that Horne himself encouraged and was aware of the unlawful activity.

An attorney representing a former Attorney General’s Office employee who resigned over alleged violations of campaign laws within the office officially demanded that Attorney General Tom Horne preserve electronic and other records in preparation for complaints to elections officials and a possible lawsuit.

Attorneys for two Arizona death row inmates are asking the Department of Corrections for information on who manufactured the drugs that will be used for their lethal injections.

A staffer at the Attorney General’s Office who volunteered as a fundraiser for Tom Horne’s re-election campaign resigned over what she called violations of campaign law within the office.

The governor’s reach in enforcing laws doesn’t extend to community colleges or other political subdivisions, said an attorney defending Maricopa County Community College District’s policy of providing in-state tuition to illegal immigrants.

Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill intended to prevent the Citizens Clean Elections Commission from regulating traditionally funded candidates, potentially sparking a lawsuit against it.

Reaching the same conclusion as the Secretary of State’s Office, the Clean Elections Commission today (April 24) tossed out a complaint against Horne alleging that he should have listed legal expenses he incurred while fighting the Arizona Public Integrity Alliance as a campaign expense in his Jan. 31 report.