Losing is winning.
In politics, anyway. In Arizona, for sure.
Losing pays better.
Over the weekend we learned that losing Republican secretary of state candidate Mark Fincheelcm and his attorney were ordered to pay sanctions by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Melissa Julian in connection with Finchem’s joke of a lawsuit challenging his 120,000-vote loss to Adrian Fontes.
In a previous ruling in the case the judge said in part, “Here the preponderance of the evidence demonstrates the existence of bad faith in the filing of this election challenge. The evidence appended to Finchem’s own amended statement demonstrates that he pursued this contest in bad faith.”
For this offense Finchem was ordered to pay $40,272 that Secretary of State Fontes spent in attorney fees, while Finchem’s attorney, Daniel McAuley III, is to pay the $7,434 attorney bill of Gov. Katie Hobbs, whose office was named in the lawsuit from when she was secretary of state.
Judge Julian noted in her previous ruling that Finchem and his attorney made a “conscious decision to pursue the matter despite appreciating that the contest had no legal merit.”
Why?
Money.
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