Timeline to replace expelled Shooter set
The timeline for appointing someone to replace former Rep. Don Shooter after his expulsion from the state Legislature has been set.
Under state statute, the first step will be a meeting of all elected District 13 Republican Party precinct committeemen from Yuma County, to be held Thursday evening in the Goodwill meeting room at 3097 S. 8th Avenue.
The appointee must live in the Yuma County portion of District 13 and belong to the Republican Party, as Shooter does.
The committeemen will hold votes on the submitted candidates until three have gotten more than 50 percent support.
This meeting will not be open to the public.
Then the list of three candidates will be sent to the Yuma County Board of Supervisors, which on the following Monday will select one of them to step into the whirlwind of the current legislative session.
A special session has been scheduled for 9 a.m. Feb. 12, county spokesman Kevin Tunell confirmed Saturday.
It will be held at the supervisors’ auditorium, 198 S. Main St.,Yuma.
The scramble among interested Yuma County Republicans has begun in earnest, with at least one candidate, grain and vegetable grower and reigning Arizona Farm Bureau “Farmer of the Year” Tim Dunn, appearing to declare his intent on Facebook through a friend’s post.
Shooter, a state legislator since 2010, was removed from the House of Representatives by a 56-3 vote Thursday, two days after the 82-page report regarding sexual harassment accusations was released.
The law firm conducting the investigation found Shooter’s behavior had violated the Legislature’s sexual harassment policy in 10 investigated incidents.