Evan Mecham took office in January 1987 ... to voter backlash over news the NFL would move the 1993 Super Bowl from Arizona if the state rejected MLK Day. The NFL moved the Super Bowl to Pasadena ...
“My pitch to him was this: ‘Our state is going the wrong direction.’ I told him we need a two-party state,” Napolitano ...
"High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Term and Trials of Former Governor Evan Mecham" If you think Arizona politics are wild now ...
After Martin Luther King Jr Day was established as a federal holiday in 1986, Arizona's governor Evan Meacham decided not to extend it to the state. That kicked off a multi-year fight between ...
Hull was right. On February 5, the Arizona House of Representatives impeached Governor Evan Mecham, and Mofford, the second in command, took over. Today, Jane Hull is secretary of state ...
Arizona was one of the last states to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday and the only state that required a public vote to do so. In 1987, Gov. Evan Mecham fulfilled a promise to ...