Katie Hobbs’ Clown Car of Incompetence: Why Isn’t She in Jail?
It’s a question everyday Arizonans are asking more and more often: How is Governor Katie Hobbs still in office, let alone not under indictment?
From Medicaid fraud to pay-to-play politics, from water giveaways to foreign adversaries to election cybersecurity disasters, Hobbs has delivered a masterclass in mismanagement, incompetence, and corruption. And yet, somehow, she and her running mate Attorney General Kris Mayes…both up for re-election, act like the law doesn't apply to them.
Let’s cut the nonsense. If a Republican had a fraction of this record, they’d already be in handcuffs.
The Hobbs administration reads like a rotating door of failed leadership and scandal. Her Chief of Staff Allie Bones resigned early amid dysfunction. Press Secretary Josselyn Berry stepped down after posting violent rhetoric on social media. Tourism Director Lisa Urias resigned over a self-dealing contract. AHCCCS Director Carmen Heredia and Health Services Director Jennie Cunico both fled under pressure from fraud investigations. Dana Allmond, appointed to lead Veterans Services, was reassigned with a six-figure salary after failing Senate confirmation.
That’s at least six confirmed cabinet-level or senior staff resignations. In less than two years.
Under Hobbs’ watch, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) fell into total disrepair, allowing $2.5 billion in Medicaid fraud to flourish, exploiting vulnerable Native Americans while her hand-picked directors looked the other way.
And what was the response? Political reshuffling, golden parachute salaries, and staged reassignments. No accountability. No prosecutions. Just “move along, nothing to see here.”
What happens when you donate $400,000 to Democrat-affiliated PACs and Hobbs-aligned organizations? Apparently, you get a 60 percent rate increase for your group home contracts. Sunshine Residential Homes hit the jackpot while Arizona taxpayers picked up the tab.
This is the textbook definition of bribery. It’s not a scandal. It’s not poor optics. It’s criminal behavior.
In any functioning state government, a breach of the voter registration system would trigger immediate audits and FBI involvement. But Hobbs vetoed critical election cybersecurity upgrades. The Motor Vehicle Division, under her control, misclassified 218,000 voters—potentially registering ineligible individuals.
Meanwhile, the Arizona Secretary of State’s office, under her administration, ignored CISA notifications and federal cybersecurity protocols, all because of political grudges against the Trump administration. I have been warning of this for 4 years… I was right cyber attack by Iran, yet my cyber security bill stalled
again.
You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to wonder what they’re hiding. Just read the JLBC budget report or ask the hospital in Yuma drowning under $26 million in unpaid care for illegal immigrants. The state’s fiscal bleeding is real, and it’s deliberate. Yet, people complained that we in the House were holding up the budget…. You are damn right we were, we were not caving to the 9th floor demands and ear marks.
Here’s the rub. The statutes are on our side. But when the Attorney General is a political soulmate of the Governor, and running on the same re-election ticket, there’s no balance of power. There’s only political protection.
Kris Mayes has done everything except enforce the law against her own party. She’s stonewalled investigations, slow-walked charges, and punted every opportunity for justice down the road. She's not the legal check on Hobbs—she's the legal shield.
Together, Hobbs and Mayes have created a machine of systemic unaccountability, built to ignore statutory violations, conceal election law failures, and block real reforms on housing, healthcare, and border security.
This isn’t about politics anymore, it’s about protecting the people of Arizona from institutional rot. Hobbs and Mayes don’t represent the working-class Arizonan. They represent a woke oligarchy of bureaucrats, political donors, and activist lawyers who treat our constitution like a rough draft.
Arizona voters are watching crime go up, schools get worse, hospital systems crumble, and taxes rise while this administration tells them everything’s fine. It’s not.
It’s time to stop pretending Governor Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes are operating in good faith. They’re not. They are ideologically aligned, legally entangled, and strategically incompetent. Together, they’ve hijacked the state’s legal and administrative machinery to protect their own power. People begged me to negotiate with Hobbs on water… I did under the condition they attend…. Result, They were able to see , hear and identify first hand the lies from her staff. Arizona needs more than a change in policy. It needs a return to lawful governance.
If Republicans are serious about restoring integrity, then stop asking why Hobbs isn’t in jail and start demanding action that makes sure the next corrupt governor doesn’t get this far. Stop attacking your own and support the “R” that wins the primary.
- Representative John Gillette, LD30
Chairman of the Federalism, Military
Affairs, & Elections Committees
Defund the Kingman City Council and Mayor
I went to the special meeting on Tuesday, Aug 5, 2025 at 4pm on the proposed sports, Event or Recreational facility.
1. Size of the Event center proposed:
Either a 65,000 square foot or an 82,000 square foot facility with 35-foot ceilings. The difference they talked about with these two facilities were either 4 or 6 basketball courts.
2. The Cost associated with these two facilities:
For an 65,000 square foot facility is $39.1 million. For an 82,000 Square foot facility is $53.5 million
3. Location of facility:
A. Fairgrounds
B. Centennial Park
C. Kingman Crossing
They seemed to be more favorable to Kingman Crossing in my opinion because they need approximately 7 acres of land.
4. Funding of this facility:
A. Tax bonds – each home owner would pay $225 per year. Only City residents would pay this. No set time frame as to how many years
B. ½ cent sales tax increase. No time frame associated for this either
5. Survey done:
A. Survey went out to Mohave County residents. They did not say how many surveys went out but they received a little over 1500 back. Stated great response.
B. They did a cell phone study: stated a lot of tourism here seeing all the out of state numbers. No consideration was taken that a lot of residents have out of state phone numbers.
C. Stated of the residents that took the survey most stated they would be willing to pay a property tax, sales tax, or a membership fee for this facility.
D. They stated they would use this facility at least a couple times a week
E. They stated that this facility would bring in tournaments from all over. They contacted several of them and were told they would possibly consider coming to Kingman, however no commitments made.
F. Talked about in the next 5-10 years the number of kids involved in sport tournaments will increase quite a bit so you need to keep this in mind. No talk about jobs that will bring all these people here.
G. This facility will allow concerts, tournaments, senior center, conference center. They could get a sports medicine doctor to rent space in there. Would bring in revenue.
H. There was no discussion regarding liability insurance, increase of police and fire personnel or the infrastructure to handle this increase of traffic.
This meeting was ridiculous. I felt like I was in the movie: Field of dreams, build it and they will come. This is a pie in the sky and a total waste of taxpayers’ money. They want something like this it needs to be privately funded.
- Penny Holden, Kingman
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