AZ-GOV: Scandal-plagued former AZ lawmaker Leezah Sun (I) announces run for governor
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Disgraced former lawmaker Leezah Sun has set her sights on the governor’s office, hoping that voters will choose her to lead the state despite a political history marked by a near-expulsion from the Arizona Legislature and accusations that she used her position to intimidate and threaten.
In a video posted on Instagram, replete with sweeping views of the state capitol and footage of her short-lived tenure in the Arizona House of Representatives, Sun announced she will run as an independent next year and said she aims to take on corporate influence in politics.
Sun was elected to the Arizona House of Representatives in 2022, as a Democrat representing a district spanning Goodyear, Tolleson and Avondale. In the first year of her freshman term, Democratic Party leaders filed an ethics complaint against her, alleging that she had used her status as an elected official in an attempt to influence the outcome of a friend’s child custody agreement, intimidated a school superintendent and threatened to kill a Tolleson city lobbyist by throwing her off a hotel balcony.
After a monthslong investigation and two hearings — during neither of which Sun admitted guilt or apologized — the House Ethics Committee concluded that Sun had violated the chamber’s definition of disorderly conduct. But minutes before the full House of Representatives gathered to vote on her expulsion, Sun resigned by email.
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