{"id":2344063,"date":"2024-09-20T16:51:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T20:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-congressional-candidate-used-state-email-to-boost-campaign-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-09-20T16:55:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T20:55:55","slug":"arizona-congressional-candidate-used-state-email-to-boost-campaign-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-congressional-candidate-used-state-email-to-boost-campaign-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona congressional candidate used state email to boost campaign &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farizona-congressional-candidate-used-state-email-to-boost-campaign-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2344063&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Democrat congressional candidate Kirsten \u200dEngel in Arizona has been accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-gov-accused-of-misusing-taxpayer-funds-to-fight-sexual-assault-claim\/\" title=\"Dem Gov Accused of Misusing Taxpayer Funds to Fight Sexual Assault Claim\">misusing taxpayer resources<\/a> for her campaign activities, \u200baccording to documents obtained by the *Washington Examiner*. The allegations indicate that while serving\u200c as a\u200d state senator, Engel forwarded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">taxpayer-funded<\/a> subscription\u200b publications to her campaign staff, which\u2063 included sensitive trade reports that carry a &#8220;DO NOT FORWARD&#8221; warning. Over\u2063 three years, she allegedly forwarded these \u200ddocuments at least 15 times. \u200bAdditionally, Engel used \u200cher state email \u2063to manage campaign-related\u200d posts on\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a> and coordinated meetings for \u200bpotential congressional \u2062candidates through her taxpayer-funded University of Arizona email.\u2062 These actions raise ethical concerns about the \u2064appropriateness of using state resources for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cuomo-may-have-joined-effort-to-discredit-1st-accuser-report-says\/\" title=\"Cuomo May Have Joined Effort To Discredit 1st Accuser, Report Says\">personal political gain<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Arizona congressional candidate misused taxpayer resources by using state-funded email to boost campaign<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1757111\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE &mdash;<\/strong> A Democratic <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>congressional<\/a> candidate in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/arizona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Arizona<\/a> misused taxpayer resources to prop up her political campaigns, documents show.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Records reveal that Democrat Kirsten Engel, who is running against Rep. Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ) in Arizona&rsquo;s 6th Congressional District, misused taxpayer-funded government resources to enhance her legislative and congressional campaigns while serving in the Arizona <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/state-legislatures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>legislature<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In this Jan. 31, 2017, file photo, Democratic state Rep. Kirsten Engel speaks at the Capitol in Phoenix. (AP Photo\/Bob Christie)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Engel used her email as a state senator to forward taxpayer-funded subscription publications to her campaign staff, according to documents obtained by the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. She sent her campaign staff articles from trade publications such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yellowsheet.ca\/rates.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><em>Yellow Sheet Report<\/em><\/a>  and <em>Arizona Legislative Report<\/em>, both of which are pricey subscriptions the state of Arizona finances for legislative officials and their staff.<\/p>\n<p>Some emails she forwarded from said trade publications include in large text a &ldquo;DO NOT FORWARD THIS EMAIL&rdquo; message and state that it is illegal to &ldquo;electronically disseminate&rdquo; their reports. Engel forwarded emails like these from her state subscription to campaign staff at least 15 times over the last three years.<\/p>\n<p>In one instance, she used her state legislative email to coordinate social media posts for her campaign. She asked her campaign staffer to make a post about donating to a local Tucson, Arizona-based organization after her then-Republican opponent did the same. Her staffer complied with the request.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">In addition to using her state legislative-affiliated email for campaign-related happenings, she used her University of Arizona email, as she&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/law.arizona.edu\/person\/kirsten-h-engel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teaches<\/a>&nbsp;at the law school there, to schedule a time to meet with a prospective congressional candidate in 2017.<\/span> Another faculty member at the university reached out to her to schedule a time to meet with a prospective congressional candidate, to which Engel responded with a proposed time frame.<\/p>\n<p>Email addresses connected to state universities are, in part, taxpayer-funded via funds they receive from the state. The UA and other public universities typically enter a contract with email domain providers such as Microsoft or Google, for example. It is very unlikely, however, that the University of Arizona or the state is billed per email address or per email sent.<\/p>\n<p>If holding office or working in any capacity for the state or government, candidates are supposed to use their email from the campaign, which is paid for by money via donations and themselves, when discussing campaign-related topics rather than their email associated with the government.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Cash-it-in Kirsten&rsquo;s ethical compass is broken,&rdquo; Ben Petersen, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. &ldquo;From bilking taxpayers for &lsquo;imaginary&rsquo; legal fees to misusing government resources, Engel has proven she will stop at nothing to game the system and benefit herself.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engel and Ciscomani previously <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Arizona%27s_6th_Congressional_District\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>faced each other<\/a> in 2022, with Ciscomani winning the seat by just over 1 percentage point. The <em>Cook Political Report<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/ratings\/house-race-ratings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>labels<\/a> the race a toss-up.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> reached out to Engel&rsquo;s campaign for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1757111\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1757111\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona congressional candidate misappropriated taxpayer resources by utilizing state-funded email for campaign purposes. EXCLUSIVE \u2014 Documents indicate that Kirsten Engel, a Democratic candidate in Arizona&#8217;s 6th Congressional District, improperly used taxpayer-funded resources to support her political campaigns while serving in the Arizona legislature. Engel is currently challenging Rep. Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ). According to records obtained by the Washington Examiner, she forwarded articles from expensive subscription publications funded by the state\u2014such as the Yellow Sheet Report and Arizona Legislative Report\u2014to her campaign staff using her state senator email. Some of these emails contained a prominent &#8220;DO NOT FORWARD THIS EMAIL&#8221; warning and stated that it was illegal to share their reports electronically. Over the past three years, Engel forwarded such emails at least 15 times to her campaign team. In one instance, she coordinated social media posts for her campaign through her legislative email, asking a staff member to promote donations to a local Tucson organization after her Republican opponent did so. Additionally, Engel used her University of Arizona email\u2014where she teaches law\u2014to arrange meetings with potential congressional candidates in 2017; this university email is partially funded by taxpayers through state allocations. Candidates are expected to use their campaign emails for discussing election-related matters rather than government-associated emails when holding office or working for the government. Ben Petersen from the National Republican Congressional Committee criticized Engel&#8217;s actions as unethical and indicative of a flawed moral compass: \u201cFrom bilking taxpayers for \u2018imaginary\u2019 legal fees to misusing government resources, Engel has proven she will stop at nothing.\u201d Previously facing each other in 2022, Ciscomani won that race narrowly by just over one percentage point; The Cook Political Report considers this upcoming race competitive. The Washington Examiner has reached out for comments from Engel\u2019s campaign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2910,"featured_media":2344064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/kirsten-engel-az06-canidate.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[4472,4087,37364,4077],"class_list":["post-2344063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-arizona","tag-campaign","tag-congressional-candidate","tag-email"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/kirsten-engel-az06-canidate.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2344063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2344064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2344063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2344063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}