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When you start analyzing how our government masters treat themselves, sadly this is how things usually work out.

Our government masters are routinely above the law.

And it's not just the powerful appointed government bureaucrats who run government agencies like Tim Jeffries. The police are pretty much routinely above the law. And time the police are accused of breaking the law, they investigate themselves and the result is almost always the same. They find they did nothing wrong.

Source

Montini: Why doesn’t the law apply to DES Director Tim Jeffries?

EJ Montini , The Republic | azcentral.com 9:30 a.m. MST October 4, 2016

A little over a week ago the director of Arizona’s Department of Economic Security, Tim Jeffries, forwarded the 7,000-plus state employees in his department an email arguing against Proposition 205, the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol.

Just this past summer Attorney General Mark Brnovich issued an opinion about how state law prohibits “the use of public resources” for the purpose of “supporting or opposing a ballot measure, question or proposition.”

Two things.

First, Jeffries' state-provided email account is a public resource.

Second, the email he sent, while under a heading that read, "Fwd: Alcohol ‘safer’ than marijuana???????" and which added, “You be the judge, was clearly a one-sided argument against the proposition written by anti-205 campaign leader by Seth Leibsohn.

Still…nothing from Brnovich.

Is it because Gov. Doug Ducey, like Jeffries, opposes Prop. 205?

Is using a state resource to promote a personal agenda only considered improper, or illegal, if you don’t agree with the governor?

J.P. Holyoak, chairman of Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, has asked for equal space on Jeffries’ email account.

He sent a message to Jeffries reading in part, “We appreciate your interest in Proposition 205 and your desire to provide information to your subordinates about the measure. In order to ensure that you are not attempting to influence the outcome of the election, we hope you agree it is appropriate to distribute to that same email list the information that we have compiled on the same topic covered in the email you forwarded from Seth Leibsohn of Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy.”

Jeffries already has used his state email account to tell his employees about a religious pilgrimage he and his wife made to France.

Brnovich somehow found that to be okay.

Teacher’s pet? Governor’s pet?

Jeffries and the employees he directs pass judgement on the behavior of others each day. Their decisions have tremendous impact on families, on children. We trust them to be fair. To play by the rules. To not allow personal prejudices to supersede the law in guiding their decisions.

What about this, then?

If Jeffries is willing to use his position to push a one-sided, prejudicial view on this issue...