Arizona Republican Committee

The Maricopa County Attorney office has fined Joel Fox, a Maricopa County Sheriff, $315,000 for his SCA donation to the Arizona Republican Party earlier this year. His group, Sheriff's Command Association donated $105K to the party while never filing the proper paperwork with the state.

When the Arizona Republican Party made their post financial disclosure last week it showed they had raised $116,400 between the dates of 8/14/2008 and 9/22/2008. Of the $116K, $105,000 was made over two donations from something called "SCA."  Since the report came out last week we have been asked via email and IM "what is SCA?"

We don't know, and to date the party has yet to been willing to answer the question. So we ask again. What is SCA?  

One donation form SCA was made in the amount of $80K on 8/21 and another for the amont of $25K on 9/10.  

Name: SCA
Address: PO Box 32045, Mesa, AZ 85275
Occupation: T/B/D, T/B/D
Memo: Unincorporated Association of individuals

The Arizona filed their state disclosure on October 7th showing $116K raised since August 20th with $73K cash on hand. The $116K included $105K from "SCA" listed as Unincorporated Association of individuals.

While Arizona has been trending more purple than red lately, Republicans still hold a registration advantage. Republicans also maintain control of the state legislature and both U.S. Senate seats. But you would never know it based on fund raising numbers the committees are putting up.

There was a lot of talk yesterday about the anti Dan Saban ad being paid for by the Republican State Committee.  Below is the ad.