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...Maricopa County Attorney Tom Collins said the investigation showed "the players were frequenting a local establishment and obtaining cocaine...
Encouraged and trained by the local sheriff to bolster his thinly spread paid forces, such posses now number 43 in Arizona's sprawling Maricopa County. The Sun City posse is the largest and, with an average age of 68, the most elderly. The oldest participant: 84-year-old Bill Moore. Volunteers patrol by twos in cars 17 hours a day and summon the professional cops by radio if they spot serious trouble. As part of "vacation watch," a posse patrolman will also check doors and windows for residents who leave town. And always, posse members are alert...
That was in 1965. She spent four years as an assistant attorney general in Arizona. Appointed by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to fill a vacancy as a state senator in 1969, she ran successfully for the senate in 1970 and 1972. Her 17 admiring Republican colleagues (all but two were men) elected her majority leader...
Although highly successful in the senate, O'Connor grew restless and decided to return to law. She ran and won a spot on the Maricopa County Superior Court bench in 1974. Explained her senate colleague Anne Lindeman: "At the end of her term she was at a crossroads. She had to choose between politics and the law. She was more comfortable with the law." Said O'Connor about the law: "It is marvelous because it is always changing...
When state Republican leaders urged her to run against Democratic Governor Bruce Babbitt in 1978, she declined. Instead, she was retained as a judge in Maricopa County and, after only eleven months, was nominated to the Arizona Court of Appeals by Babbitt, who denies trying to sidetrack a potentially dangerous opponent. Says Babbitt: "I had to find the finest talent available to create confidence in our new merit system. Her intellectual ability and her judgment are astonishing...