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The home ownership days will be this Friday from 1 until 7 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. until noon.
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The Winter Whale Watch Week is in full swing, with volunteers staffing 26 locations along the Oregon Coast from 10 a.m. -1 p.m. through January 1st. There hasn't been much action yet, with only 12 gray whale sightings reported so far. The sightings have been on the Southern Oregon Coast. Unfortunately, the coastal weather is not cooperating this week. The forecast is for rain almost everywhere on the coast. Calmer days are much better for whale watching!
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I've never been big on ladies "waiting for their man to propose." And what I mean by that is "I've never been big on ladies constantly complaining that their man hasn't yet proposed." It's not that I'm callous or unsympathetic -- I will totally listen to you, and listen hard, if you'd like -- it's just ... I don't know, there's something sort of retro and icky about it.
The way I see it, it's 2011. A man and a woman should reach a decision together regarding whether or not they're ready to commit their lives to each other. It shouldn't solely be in the hands of the man. And if it is, well, there's a gross imbalance of opinion in the relationship, and it might be time to move on, as difficult as that may be.
Brides.com, purveyors of all things monogrammed and poofy, think differently, though. They feel if a woman wants to bitch (and bitch) about her boyfriend's inability to produce a shiny thing, they should be given a (really depressing) forum to do so.
Dubbed "Waiting for the Ring," the forum is a place for women to vent to complete and total strangers about their significant others -- and the fact that they still haven't popped the question. And it's not, like, normal venting. It's full-on "I'm trying to concoct a way to get him arrested if he doesn't propose" "venting." Here's a (kind of long) sampling:
my soon to be (hoping for 3 years now) fiance still hasn't proposed to me after being together for so long.
i give him everything a man could ask for. i cook his dinner for him on sunday's, i rub his neck after he gives me a full body massage, i only complain about him hanging out with his friends when i'm on my period (but only so he thinks it's my hormones), and we even have sex 1 time a week.
so this is what i'm thinking to get him to propose. he smokes marijuana in the basement of his house EVERY NIGHT! if i tell him that he either proposes to me or i call the police about his marijuana, does this make me a bad person? i talked to my stylist and she said go for it.
You can check out this particular thread. (And then get lost in the others.) This isn't a joke, like I originally (naively) though. This is real. And it's frightening.
What kind of basis for marriage is this? Blackmail? Talking smack to complete strangers? And LuvDiamonds -- that's the poster's screenname -- I think you're probably better off with someone who doesn't smoke weed in the basement every night. Although the full body massage does sound kind of nice ...
I get that venting feels good, it's cathartic. We all, including me, indulge in it from time to time. But this forum gives it a whole new meaning. And something about it seems sort of deceptive. But most of all, it's just super depressing
What do you think of "Waiting for the Ring"?
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If you don't have a ring, it is because your partner is not ready to take that step. There is no point in rushing them, it will end badly!!!! My now hubs and I were together for a LLLLOOOONNNGGG time, and either he was ready and i wasn't, or i was ready and he wasn't. When he asked, it was after i had been ill and had a hospital stay. I immediately thought that it was because he was paniking and didn't want to lose me, but he re-assured me that it was not that, and he had been planning, but i got sick, and he wanted to make sure that I was fully recovered. Bottom line - if you are ready, then ask HIM, and when he is ready, he will ask YOU.
I think the women who would vent like that (the sample) don't deserve to be married.
Pathetic. It's not depressing, it's crazy and disgusting. If you're that desperate for a ring, aask him yourself and then you can either buy one together or you can pick out your own.
"i rub his neck after he gives me a full body massage, i only complain about him hanging out with his friends when i'm on my period (but only so he thinks it's my hormones), and we even have sex 1 time a week."
Also, does this sound like a terrible relationship to anyone else? I'd never marry anyone who ever complained about my friends, excused his poor behavior on hormones, traded "neck rub" for "full body massage" or thought sex once a week was a lot, if no kids or distanced was involved. Why should this guy?
I never understood the women who were waiting around for their men to propose either. He either will or he won't. And if he doesn't want to, there's not really much you can do about it. I used to have a friend who admitted she gave her boyfriend an ultimatum. She told him if he didn't propose within 5 years, she was leaving him. I was pretty speechless! One, why would want to force anyone into marrying you when they are CLEARLY not ready. And two, how desperate are you?! My fiance didn't propose until after we had already been together for 8 years. I knew it would happen if it was supposed to. We talked about marriage alot. I never once pushed for it.
Whatever works for each individual couple. I bought my ring myself (his money) because I'm a little more aggressive when it comes to bargaining. There was a band we had been eyeballing at a "going out of business" boutique and I begged him to let me try and low ball them and he was hesitant. He gave me the cash, I plopped it down on the counter and said take it or leave it and they took it. I walked out with it, we put a rock in it, and voila. We are no more happy or unhappy than the rest of the population (I like to think happier) with the exception of no romantic story to tell. We also were also secretly legally married in December for payroll purposes but didn't have our wedding until August. We are a little unconventional but you know what I know plenty of friends that got romantic proposals and they either broke up or divorced already.
Well, I didn't resort to tricks. I put it on the line. If after 4 years he was not ready to get engaged (and I mean 1 year to plan the wedding engaged, not shut up, indefinatley engaged), then I figured we were both wasting our time. I told him to think it over, and if he truly did not want to marry me, we should go our seperate ways, and here's the kicker. I meant it. It was not a threat, or a game. It was a sad, this isn't going where I need it to go, so I should deal with my broken heart now and move one thing. Well, he decided we should get married and we picked out the ring together. It will be our 6 wedding anniversary in spring and we have 2 year old twins, and we really couldn't be happier.
If you want marriage and your partner does not, then maybe your path is not together.


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The Phony Defenders of the Constitution … Exploiters of Conservatives and Patriots
The United States is in very deep do-do folks. It is just a matter of time (and not much of it) that America will be completely finished as a sovereign nation.
I felt the need to start this post off with the understatement of the decade. I say "understatement" because I for one have begun to realize the fatal mistake made of allowing Barack Obama to occupy the White House.
Before I get into my rant, I will say Mark Levin, Hannity, Beck and Limbaugh do a good job of convincing people they care about America. Beck exposed ACORN and the Communist Van Jones. Levin's Landmark Legal Foundation won a minor victory in court over Obama's recess appointments. Great! Good job! What great strides for truth, justice and the fight against tyranny. The deal is we wouldn't be fighting for these things (at least like we are now) had these guys not been frauds from the beginning …
We've let the proverbial fox into the hen house and he is having a field day. Getting to the point of this I'm so sick and tired of hearing people like Mark Levin, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck spout off their hollow, empty patriotic bullshit. Every damn one of them sold out on Barack Obama's fraudulent rise to the White House. I've written about this several times and just when I think I've gotten it out of my system, I'll start listening to the Levin or Hannity show and it's like a wound opens up and I realize once again that these guys are f#cking frauds. Self-serving low-life exploiters of conservatives and true patriots who are seeking a champion" to stand up for America.
Anyway, I wonder where Levin, Hannity, Beck, and all the other phony "defenders of the Constitution" were in 2008 when the Constitution was being trampled and a fraud was being ushered into the White House? Uh, defenders … where were you? Listen to Mark Levin, the 'DEFENDER OF THE CONSTITUTION' explain why he didn't defend it then.
I think on this particular show he had some liberal guest wanting to discuss Obama's birth issue. Here is most of what Levin said …
Levin: "We have these monumental battles to help save this nation." (he says liberals are trying to talk about birth certificates!)
Levin: "Let's pretend for two seconds Obama wasn't born here. Let me ask you a question. (long pause) By the time that's litigated and gets all the way to the Supreme Court, what the hell do you think's going to happen? Do you think there's going to be five justices to remove him? Now come on! Don't be silly! (long pause) It's not my issue. (pause) It's a distraction. In my humble opinion."
Folks, when one listens to Mark Levin on the radio he is the complete opposite of those statements. It's stunning to me that he would say, "By the time that's litigated and gets all the way to the Supreme Court, what the hell do you think's going to happen? Do you think there's going to be five justices to remove him?" and "It's not my issue." that Obama is a foreign national???
Not his "issue"!!?
And this fool, this phony Constitutional attorney, the "veteran of the Reagan Administration", claims to be the "defender of the Constitution"? Mr. Levin, you didn't defend it against fraud. You have "monumental battles"? Defending the White House from being occupied by a fraud, by a foreign national, a Marxist isn't "monumental" enough for you or is it something more? You want to be the defender of liberty, freedom, the flag, puppies, mom and apple pie … as long as your job is secure. You f#cking phony.
It's disgusting the way people call into Levin and Hannity and proclaim what an "honor" it is to speak with them. "Thank you for taking my call!" "It's a great honor to speak with you!" "You're a great American!" Beyond disgusting is the sad part on how they are exploited and used so Levin and the others can appear to care about America and the liberty we have here. These callers think they are talking with someone who has been defending this nation against tyranny. They don't even realize these are the very people who stood by and allowed tyranny to walk right into the White House.
It's a slap in the face to real conservative patriots how these phony patriotic talk show hosts, who have the means to expose Obama and had the means from the beginning but didn't. And because of it America is finished. It will take more than a generation to recover from the damage done by Barack Obama, if it's even possible.
I know, I know, I'm rude and I'm doing a disservice to Mr. Levin. I'm just giving him what he gives folks who don't agree with him. The point of this is to say had the above mentioned "conservatives" along with all the other "pillars" done their genuine patriotic duty in 2008 we would not have Barack Obama squatting in the White House leading the nation straight to hell. Levin, Beck, Hannity, Coulter, and all the others are trying to make a scrambled egg into a sunny side-up. Obama's there and he ain't leaving anytime soon.
January 26, 2013 7:25 pm
Would you like some more cheese with your whine, steve?
January 27, 2013 1:17 am
No, I'm not offended. Not bowing to Fox News just means you're a conservative with sense. Just not enough of it.
Bob Gard permalinkJanuary 31, 2013 5:18 pm
I thank you, Steve, and PatriotUSA, for understanding that a significant conservative blockade to the truth about Obama's constitutionality is afoot. I urge your readers to visit The-Constitutionist.com web site and learn a bit about my eBook that proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Obama is not eligible to be President under the presidential eligibility clause of the U.S. Constitution. Before we can save our Constitution, the American public, including all the famous conservatives, must self-educate in order to give up willful ignorance.


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When I started, I couldn't keep my fingers off the arrow keys to move. This became a nuisance when I wanted to move and fire off a shot at the same time, or when I wanted to turn. I used to put my zoom in/out on the Num pad, too. All that did was take up usable macro and ability keys. I don't think my AWSD keys even do movements any more. Once I got a mouse with a wheel, I can zoom and move simultaneously and still shoot my target. It's more fluid.
But for shots and other abilities, I prefer the keys. However, with some targeting abilities like Flare and Volley, I still click a button on-screen because I still have to place the target anyway.
For Targeting AoEs like Flare, Volley, Blizzard etc. is even more important to be bound to a key than single target abilities like Aimed Shot, Sinister Strike, Fire Blast if just because you also have to mouse click where you want to attack.
While your finger is sweeping to the button on your keyboard that has Volley bound to it, for example, you can simultaneously position your mouse cursor just where you want it to be. Afterwards, if you don't click the mouse to let off the ability, you can still cearly and precisely aim, rather than sliding your cursor from the middle of the screen to the ability, then back to the top of your screen where the target is.
In your way of doing that, in the process you are actually thinking about the ability, then applying your thoughts on moving the AoE circle back to the target. That takes roughly 4-6 times longer, depending on the situation.


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Broke Guy Day Care: Monkeys for nothing
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Broke Guy Day Care: Palo Alto Junior Museum
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I'm a big fan of his smile, and the dance's cute.
Sorry for the LQ picture but 은밀하게 위대하게 Is another movie that I wanna add to my watched list. I've watched a lot since the last post I made but this was just wow! i give it a ** on my list [: Superb acting… ending was typical but I can't help it!! I love typical endings! It was just so funny and heart wrenching!!! Pretty good for a story without a love line~
Because I'm on Humming Urban Stereo mode right now. And because I love love love Lee Yeon Hee and Jung Il Woo together. It's kind of sad that Lee Jin Hwa already passed away but her adorable voice will always be remembered.


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EVE Online has enjoyed a successful localised launch in Japan bringing the unique MMO to the fourth-largest gaming market in the world.
CCP has expanded their localised operations to include a Japanese-language version of EVE Online providing full localised language support, customer support, player forums and website as well as billing in YEN for budding Japanese EVE players.
EVE's producer Jon Lander said, "Our Japanese players now have an excellent and well developed localized experience. During the launch of the Japanese client, we've added a multilingual search tool across all game clients that helps weld the disparate language groups present in EVE into a more 'global' and unified game experience truly demonstrating the impact and value of the single shard server model."
CCP boss Hilmar Veigar Petursson added, "EVE Online is a game of epic achievements. Hundreds of thousands of players share a single, beautifully rendered universe. Its a game about economics, politics, cooperation and strategy, but ultimately its about awesome spaceships and explosions. The heart of EVE is its emergent sandbox nature, which means that every new player contributes to our infinitely scalable storytelling engine. With tens of thousands of new pilots from Japan, we will see EVE grow in new and unforeseen ways that reverberate for all pilots."
CCP also recently announced that, from next month, UK EVE Online subscribers will be able to pay their subs in Pounds Sterling instead of Euros.
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Here is a selection of live music this coming weekend:
Paul Cardall
"An Evening with Paul Cardall" will feature piano music from various albums including "New Life" and "Hymns Collection."
When • Friday, Sept. 28, 7 p.m.
Where • Assembly Hall on Temple Square, 50 W. North Temple, Salt Lake City
Tickets • Free
Julia Heinen
Clarinetist Julia Heinen has performed hundreds of concertos and solo recitals around the world, including premiering and recording several works commissioned for her. She is currently professor of clarinet at California State University, Northridge.
When • Friday, Sept. 28, 7:30 p.m.
Where • Dumke Recital Hall in Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City
Tickets • Free
The Australian Pink Floyd Show
The Australian Pink Floyd Show will bring the Exposed in the Light World Tour 2012 to Usana Amphitheatre.
When • Friday, Sept. 28, 8 p.m.
Where • Usana Amphitheatre, 5150 S. 6055 West, West Valley City
Tickets •$25-$39 at SmithsTix
Starstruck 3
Nightsneak presents Starstruck 3 featuring Tommy Trash, Myon & Shane 54, DJ Dean, and more at Saltair.
When • Saturday, Sept. 29, 5 p.m.
Where • Saltair, 12408 W. Salt Air Drive, Magna
Tickets • $25 at SmithsTix
Nightwish, Kamelot
Nightwish is a Finnish quintet that combines dramatic orchestral elements and attitude-drenched heavy metal. It is one of the world's premier female-fronted metal groups. Kamelot will open.
When • Saturday, Sept. 29, 8 p.m.
Where • The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, Salt Lake City
Tickets • $35 at enterthevault.com
James Wesley
Country artist James Wesley will perform.
When • Saturday, Sept. 29, 10 p.m.
Where • The Westerner, 3360 S. Redwood Road, West Valley City
Tickets • $5 at SmithsTix


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The specter of widespread political corruption has grown with each new indictment of an elected official.
Fraud. Theft. Betrayal of the public's trust. These were among the allegations leveled against politicians across Arizona as their indictments were announced by Attorney General Terry Goddard.
In the last four years, Goddard and his prosecutors have filed charges against eight elected officeholders.
But in the cases that have played out in court, the assertions that corrupt politicians were cashing in on their offices have largely evaporated, replaced in many instances by charges involving paperwork or budgetary authority. The convictions that still stand have come through plea agreements to low-level felonies or misdemeanors, with requirements that the elected official resign.
Now Goddard's critics, especially the politicians he has prosecuted, are accusing him of misusing his office to fuel his own political ambitions.
Goddard said the charges he has brought in every case were appropriate, and that politics plays no role in deciding whether an elected official will be charged with a crime.
Those accusing him of partisan prosecutions are people who broke the law and are pointing fingers to salvage their own reputations, Goddard said.
"The investigations showed that there were serious crimes involved in each of these cases and that there was a pervasive tendency to treat the public office as a personal fiefdom," Goddard said of his prosecution of elected officials. "I would defend any of them as being appropriate and the actions that needed to be taken under the circumstances. In fact, I would have violated my oath of office to uphold the laws of Arizona had I not pursued these cases."
None of the cases against elected officials brought by Goddard has resulted in convictions on major corruption charges such as bribery or fraud. Three of the elected officials have reached agreements and pleaded guilty to a single count of conflict of interest. That is a Class 6 felony, the least serious in state law. One of those felonies was later changed to a misdemeanor by a Superior Court judge.
Former state Treasurer David Petersen pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor unrelated to the operation of his office after an eightmonth investigation.
Kevin Ross, former Maricopa County assessor and the only politician indicted by Goddard to take his case to trial, beat the three felony charges filed against him in 2004. Earlier this year, a state appeals court overturned the lone conviction obtained by prosecutors.
Three other cases are still working their way through the court system.
Aside from the elected officials, Goddard has brought 16 criminal cases against nonelected government officials, including police officers, school administrators, a court official, a prison guard, a maintenance worker and a secretary in a county parks department.
Those who contend Goddard is misusing his office, including many of those he has targeted, say he is using his power as a prosecutor to make headlines as a clean-government crusader to boost his own political career.
In the process, they say, Goddard has ruined reputations, skewed elections, and bullied those he has gone after by offering the choice of cutting a plea deal or waging a financially ruinous court fight.
Five of the indicted politicians are Republicans, including all four who live in Maricopa County. Two are Democrats and one is a school board member, a nonpartisan office.
Goddard is a Democrat.
"It's one thing to be a hard-nosed prosecutor," said Ross, a Republican who said it cost him two years and about $250,000 in legal fees to beat the charges Goddard brought against him in 2004. "It's a whole other situation to manufacture cases, to indict people and then search around for a crime. That's what (Goddard) has been doing."
Melvin McDonald, a former county prosecutor, Superior Court judge and U.S. Attorney in Arizona, said he doesn't buy the argument that Goddard is maliciously prosecuting politicians, particularly Republicans, to boost his own political standing. Rather, Goddard seems to be aggressively going after elected officials who make technical mistakes that do not benefit themselves personally or harm the public, McDonald said.
McDonald, now in private practice, represented former Yuma County School Superintendent Judeth Badgley, who was indicted by Goddard's office in 2003. Badgley, a Republican, was among those who pleaded guilty to a single conflict-of-interest charge as part of a plea agreement. However, the Yuma County judge who presided over the case designated the offense a misdemeanor after concluding Badgley did not intend to break the law or defraud the public.
"I think the big temptation sometimes with prosecutors is they've got to come across as tough, no-nonsense; 'we're going to out-muscle people and really show the public we're tough,'" McDonald said. "Well, the objective ought to be fairness, not toughness."
Former Maricopa County Attorney Richard Romley, who has no connection to any of the cases brought by Goddard, agrees that prosecutors must be cautious with their power to bring charges on minor violations involving the complex maze of technical laws that govern public officials.
Romley headed the biggest political corruption investigation in state history, the 1991 AzScam case that netted seven state legislators in a widespread bribery sting. More recently, Romley was the special prosecutor who got a 3 1/2-year prison sentence against former Pinal County Manager Stan Griffis, who used his position to loot county coffers for his personal use.
"We must be a watchdog and must carefully scrutinize information that comes forward that possibly infers corruption," said Romley, stressing he was talking generally and not about any specific case. "But with that said, the best thing that a seasoned prosecutor can bring to the table is judgment. The rules and regulations are so complex and at times so unknowing of individuals that you've got to take into account exactly what occurred and why it occurred.
"You've got to look beyond just technical."
None of the indicted politicians interviewed by the Tribune faulted Goddard's office for launching an investigation after allegations of impropriety surfaced. But once the investigations showed there was no fraud or corruption, the cases should have been dropped, they say.
In Petersen's case, prosecutors admitted last year that after an eight-month investigation they found no evidence that he had abused his office, or that he had a conflict of interest through his relationship with a nonprofit organization that preaches character building in schools. But they did find that over a two-year period, Petersen had received about $4,200 in commissions from the company, earnings he did not report on his personal financial disclosure statement that elected officials must file annually. Goddard's office pitched a deal in late October 2006.
Petersen could be charged with six felony counts of perjury, forgery and false swearing, plus two misdemeanors, all related to his disclosure statement. Or he could plead guilty to a single misdemeanor and resign.
Petersen, a Mesa Republican, said he could not afford to fight. By the time prosecutors offered the deal, Petersen had already spent about $20,000 on lawyer's fees, money he had to borrow. Petersen said his lawyer told him if he went to trial he would almost certainly beat the felony charges, but might not win on the technicalities of the misdemeanor counts of failing to disclose the commissions. In any case, it would cost him at least another $75,000 to go to trial. So he took the deal.
"Financially it was just more than I could afford," Petersen said.
Petersen dropped his bid for reelection after the investigation was made public in February 2006. He resigned in November, as required in the plea deal.
Goddard said Petersen broke the law and got a fair deal.
"There's no such thing as a technical violation of the law," Goddard said. "There's nothing trivial about systematically covering up sources of income if you are a public official."
The Petersen case has taken an unusual twist. In April, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas announced they would investigate whether Goddard's office improperly cut a deal with Petersen.
That investigation involves payment of $1.9 million in legal fees from the treasurer's office to the attorney general's office from an unrelated civil case in June 2006, as Goddard's office was scrutinizing Petersen.
Arpaio and Thomas are both Republicans.
Last month, Goddard sent all of his cases that had been investigated by the sheriff's office to other agencies for prosecution to avoid a conflict of interest as a result of the Petersen investigation.
Doug Martin says he wanted to fight when he was charged in December on nine felony counts alleging he violated state procurement laws by entering into lease-purchase agreements for four vehicles used by his office. But the former state mine inspector said he could not afford the $75,000 or more his lawyer said it would cost to go to trial.
Martin's sister, Judy, was badly burned in a gas explosion at her home in July 2005. The Queen Creek Republican was her sole caregiver.
"If I were to drain my entire funds, I wouldn't be able to continue caring for my sister, and she would have gone to a nursing home," said Martin, who pleaded guilty to a single count of conflict of interest as part of a deal he cut with prosecutors.
Goddard's office indicted Martin on charges of fraud, theft and procurement-code violations related to the truck leases.
There was no allegation that Martin personally profited from the deal.
Rather, the indictment charged procurement laws required him to go through the state Department of Administration to acquire vehicles. Prosecutors also alleged Martin loaded his work truck with luxurious options such as a moon roof, which would not be allowed if he got the vehicle through the state.
Martin's defense was that he used federal grant money to obtain the vehicles, which is specifically allowed by federal agencies. Martin says he believes a 1993 agreement he had with the state Department of Administration gave him the authority to use the federal funds to finance lease-purchase agreements for vehicles.
As to the luxury options, Martin said the vehicle he'd been driving, and which was obtained through the state, also had a moon roof. Martin, who did not seek re-election in 2006, said the charges against him amounted to paperwork violations, adding "there wasn't a cent that came to me personally."
Goddard said the state's conflictof-interest statute does not require a public official to personally profit in order to be charged. The 1993 agreement did not grant Martin the power to enter into lease-purchase deals and load his state trucks with luxury options, Goddard said. Martin had been warned repeatedly not to obtain vehicles outside of normal procurement channels, but did anyway, Goddard said.
"He was systematically involved in trying to circumvent the state procurement law in order to get a vehicle that was his chariot," Goddard said of Martin.
"I don't see how you can call that a technicality. If that's the case, then all of the aspects of required procurement for state offices are mere technicalities and can be avoided at will. That's simply not the law and would be terrible public policy."
Unlike Martin and Petersen, Ross did have the money to fight back when he was indicted by Goddard's office in May 2004.
In January 2003, Ross used an assessor's list of certain homeowners who qualified for a special property-tax break in a private, parttime business venture. The Gilbert Republican stood to profit from the mortgage-marketing plan, but the list did not generate a single sale.
The central issue in the case was whether the list was confidential information or a public record that anyone could obtain.
Ross was charged with two counts of conflict of interest for disclosing confidential information held by his office, and attempting to profit from that information. He also was indicted on a single count of obstructing a criminal investigation.
The state's case started to fall apart when Judge Thomas O'Toole of Maricopa County Superior Court dismissed one conflict-of-interest charge against Ross, ruling the state had failed to prove the list was a confidential record. Ross was acquitted of obstruction, but convicted by a jury on the second conflict-of-interest charge.
Earlier this year, the Arizona Court of Appeals threw out that conviction. Ross' use of assessor's documents to make money in a private business venture might raise ethical concerns, but did not violate the law, the court found.
The attorney general's office is appealing that unanimous ruling.
Ross tried to run for re-election while under indictment, but was defeated in the 2004 Republican primary.
Sandra Dowling is still fighting the charges Goddard's office filed against her in November. The Maricopa County School Superintendent, a Republican, was indicted on 25 counts of theft, misuse of public money, procurement fraud and conflict of interest.
Dowling is accused of authorizing payments from a district account without first getting approval of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. She also is charged with using a lobbyist she hired with county funds to try to get her a federal job, and of helping her son get landscaping contracts at districtrun schools.
The case stems from a power struggle over spending authority between Dowling and the board of supervisors, said Craig Mehrens, Dowling's lawyer. There is no evidence Dowling personally profited from her actions, Mehrens said.
In May, Judge Edward Burke of Maricopa County Superior Court threw out 12 of the charges against Dowling, ruling key evidence that could have suggested Dowling's innocence was withheld from the grand jury.
Goddard sent the case to the U.S. Attorney's Office because it was investigated by the sheriff.
Goddard also has brought criminal charges against two Democrats. Robert Canchola, former Santa Cruz County School Superintendent, was indicted on 40 felony counts of theft, misuse of public monies, fraud and conflict of interest in November 2005.
That case resulted from a state Auditor General's investigation that found he may have embezzled $16,549 in county funds for his own personal use. Canchola pleaded guilty to a single count of conflict of interest.
Apache County Sheriff Brian Hounshell was indicted in May 2005 on four counts of misuse of public money, fraud and theft in connection with use of county vehicles and personnel for his own benefit. That case is still pending.
Romley said accusations of partisanship will always come up when a prosecutor indicts an elected official.
Prosecutors do have a responsibility to be sure of their cases before indicting elected officials, Romley said.
Regardless of the outcome, an indictment alone will likely ruin their careers and could disenfranchise the voters who elected them, he said.
"The impact is much broader than just an individual person," Romley said. "They are the elected representatives of the people."