“My pitch to him was this: ‘Our state is going the wrong direction.’ I told him we need a two-party state,” Napolitano ...

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 ...

"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 ...

according to records kept by the Arizona State Library. Then-Gov. Evan Mecham loaned inauguration funds to his auto ...

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 ...

When The Arizona Republic wanted public reaction to the 1988 impeachment vote against then-Gov. Evan Meacham, a Republican, Durant’s was one of the places reporters looked. When The Republic ...