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July 2024

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CONTENTS

LEADING OFF Editor’s letter 6 Contributors 6 HISTORY Maricopa’s Ed, Edd n Eddy 8

This month in history 8 GOVERNMENT

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MAGA faithful take over the strip 8 Ride Along, but without Ice Cube and Kevin Hart 10 These people want your vote 12 Permits 18 COMMUNITY Why so many Maricopans believe this popular conspiracy theory 22 Ohm, ohm on the range 26 Want to lose weight? Try this 30 BUSINESS This powersports dealer serves Maricopa 31 Dead industry? Not for local ice cream truckers 32 Briefs 34 New rideshare punches round-trip tickets to Sky Harbor 36 Restaurant inspections 37 SPORTS Petite girl starts at safety under new head coach from Sun Devils front office 38 SENIORS YouTuber, 95, shares keys to a long life 44 HOME Phoenix has more pools than any city. Maricopans want in 46

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EVENTS Calendar 54 TRENDING A look at what’s hot on InMaricopa.com 63 PARTING SHOT Sun goddess 64

Garden your way through the monsoon season 48 Plumbing expert answers FAQs 49 Feral cat crisis means outdoor dangers for Mittens 50 Business with friends is a bad idea. What about real estate? 51 Do these things before buying a home warranty 52 Extreme home sales 53

ON THE COVER Victor Moreno captures pro-Trump protestors demonstrating on John Wayne Parkway near Smith-Enke Road the morning of May 17. Various iterations of the MAGA, American and Israeli flags, and mascot Trumpy Bear, are seen in the frame. Not pictured, a lone counter-protester stands across the street. This photograph has been digitally altered.

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FROM THE EDITOR

SMILE WITH CONFIDENCE

S SOME OF YOU WILL BE DELIGHTED TO SEE MAGA zealots jubilating on the cover of this month’s InMaricopa magazine. The less adventurous, more stubbornly principled reader may have already thrown this copy into the trash in a loathsome compulsion. Politics are a hard sell, especially in a hyperlocal newsmag, but InMaricopa doesn’t shy away from covering them. As a barometer of all things Maricopa, we can’t deny the shockwaves in Manhattan and D.C. have rippled into our far-flung little city during this historic era of paradigm turnabout. Putting Donald Trump’s face on this month’s cover — although by indirect, vestiary means — was a decision I didn’t take lightly. I am not here to endorse any candidate or political party. Rather, to begin your monthly exercise in news literacy with imagery that, unlike many of our past covers, provokes an instant, strong and polarized reaction. First Amendment exhibits elicit such reactions. As do displays of hypocrisy. Donald Trump, with his history of sexual abuse and insults hurled at women, is the only American president ever convicted of a crime. Yet, here, he is exalted by “Women for Trump” devotees. He is cast as Captain America, a fictional war hero. Questionable poetic justice of the U.S. Flag Code is taken in many gross alterations to the stars and stripes. And we see the recently vogue flags of Israel;

Why Trump is on the cover of InMaricopa

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that, from members of an Arizona GOP that endorsed neo-Nazis in just the last election. On the other side of the coin, anti-Trump bias

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runs rampant in the mainstream media. Former Washington Post columnist Howard Kurtz’s evenhanded and incisive study on the issue, Media Madness , found the mainstream media’s dogmatic hatred for Trump moved ostensibly objective journalists, alarmed by the president’s success, into the opposing camp. This unsettling phenomenon is not, and never will be, InMaricopa . For us, this

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cover is an exercise in true objectivity. The overtness of Trump’s bipolar influence on Maricopa merits it a place on our cover. It’s topical, and topical events should not be minimized or ignored. They spark productive conversations about how we respond to the controversial images we see, in the media and in the world. I believe you will conclude our coverage is fair. So, as you read the stories in this edition about conspiracy theories, first responders and electric vehicles, think about it — and let me know — how does this cover make YOU feel?

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HISTORY

M discover , invest & thrive in maricopa aricopa is doing things dierently – and it's paying o! We're building a reputation for turning ambitious dreams into reality, and the best part is we're doing all this while lowering property taxes for the sixth year in a row! The Mayor and City Council are committed to making Maricopa an even more attractive place to live. Here's a glimpse into the exciting developments taking place in our city.

Betting the farm

Ed and Tootsie Farrell, along with their

children, Edna and Eddie Jay, moved to Maricopa in 1948 to farm cotton. News broke that Maricopa’s land was just right for this enterprise, and Ed Farrell took advantage of it. Ed Farrell eventually operated a cotton harvesting operation called Farrell & Farrell Cotton-Picking, and later a tillage business with Eddie Jay. He built a warehouse next to the railroad tracks where farmers could store their wheat and vegetables and ship them to the market. Crops weren’t all Farrell saw in Maricopa’s future. He saw potential economic growth. Farrell bought the Maricopa Cash Market, renamed Maricopa Mercantile and Mayfair Market, and other businesses including the Chevron Station, Shell Oil Station, an insurance company and Headquarters Bar. He later sold many of those businesses.

Ed Farrell surrounded by a field of cotton bolls ca. 1950.

thrive in mar i copa

Major Investments in Infrastructure

Despite lowering property taxes, we are investing more in infrastructure than ever before. Fueled by our smart growth, we have developed the nancial stability to spend more on our infrastructure in the last four years than we had since the City was founded. The City Council has reemphasized this focus with the recently-approved budget. These improvements are not just about better roads—they're about creating a seamless, vibrant community.

Expanding Recreational Opportunities We’re making substantial quality of life investments, including a destination recreational Field House, new parks and green spaces, and the exploration of a business incubator and preforming arts center. We’re also putting tax dollars collected from visitors to work by oering thrilling events that attract attention from across the Valley.

Fields of cantaloupes grown in Maricopa in 1956. Ed Farrell checks the crop.

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Building Together

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A Booming Retail Landscape

Enhancing Public Safety The opening of Maricopa’s new Police Headquarters is imminent, renewing our commitment to keeping residents safe. This year, we are also adding four new police ocers, three new reghters, and additional public safety employees to connect our community to the resources they need in a crisis.

Whoops! Maricopa cops accidentally left a bag of narcotics at Butterfield Elementary School after a training drill. An email from the school to parents three weeks after the training stated the school was in a teaching lockdown while police searched for their lost contraband. It turned out a teacher had already found it and threw it in the trash, unaware what it was. No students were exposed.

A rollerblader stabbed two elderly people at Jane Askew Memorial Park in Rancho El Dorado. Two friends were walking their dog when the man rolled up, kicked the dog, slashed the owner’s chest with a box cutter and stabbed the other person in the back. Maricopa Police Department released a sketch of the suspect, a tall, mustached white man in his 40s, but he was never found.

Police responded to reports of a sheep stuck in a drainage ditch in The Villages at Rancho El Dorado. A walker told dispatch she heard bleating from the roadside drain. Officers found no woolen livestock, but instead, a very vocal frog that was anything but sheepish.

Bashas’ opened its doors as the city’s first supermarket. The soft opening was not as soft as expected, as the parking lot and aisles were both filled to capacity. Eddie Basha Jr., the company’s CEO and son of its founder, was in attendance.

Investors are taking notice! With anticipation of 500,000 -700,000 square feet of new retail space in the coming year, Maricopa is set to become a focal point for commerce. Get ready for more shopping, dining, and entertainment options right in your backyard.

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Clockwise from top left: Jeff Northrup makes a statement as the lone counter-protester after historic Trump conviction. | Trumpy Bear is the Maricopa Republican Club’s official mascot. | Rich Martin waves the U.S. flag. | These signs are illegal, according to city code enforcers. | Judy Spallino (left) and Mary Virden.

Laura Kozma recasts the U.S. flag with twin rifles, a star-spangled bald eagle, religious and MAGA overtones.

Martin said. “That allowed Hitler to take over Germany and it may allow the kind of loonies that are in the White House now to take over this beautiful country.” The group drew mixed reactions from passersby. “You as a citizen need to show your support, whoever you’re going to support,” Hermanson contended. Maricopa Meadows resident Jeff Northrup took Hermanson’s advice tongue-in-cheek and stood on the opposite side of the street the day a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Instead of advocating any candidate, he wrote “GUILTY” with a fat- ended marker on neon green posterboard and planted it with a Trump- shaped piñata, which was wearing gold Converse sneakers and held a Trump-branded Bible “for sale” — callbacks to the former president’s most recent fundraising stunts. The demonstration went viral on the social networking website Reddit in r/pics, a subreddit with 31 million members, after a user named crumbly_toast posted a picture of the piñata and sign. It was upvoted north of 2,000 times. “I wasn’t ready for the trial to end yesterday, but as soon as it did, I threw together this double-sided sign and came out,” Northrup said. Northrup was slapped with two citations for setting up 25 signs on the same sidewalk April 9, he said. The neon green signs were taped onto stepstools lining the sidewalk, displaying messages like “TRUMP’S CULT...100% BRAINWASHED” and “TRUMP BIBLE/SHOE SALESMAN.” When city code enforcement officers confronted Northrup about the signs violating city statute, he told them, “The only way to resolve this is for you to give me a ticket,” Northrup told InMaricopa . After a few hours, his wish was granted. Next to Northrup’s signature, code enforcement noted “Jeffrey requested to be cited.” Northrup received 18 counts of violating the city’s “general standards” for signs. City prosecutors did not comment about Northrup’s case. Northrup’s court date was June 27. The citation amount at time of publishing was $1,800.

Make Maricopa great again Pro-Trumpers take over the strip, clash with counter-protest

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Hermanson said he believes Maricopa is purple but might have “a slight edge to MAGA versus the democrats.” “I think there’s more MAGA people in Maricopa than we could expect,” Hermanson said. “I think a lot of them are silent.” He was flanked by a dozen other supporters of the Republican candidate. Desert Cedars resident Laura Kozma was swagged out in Trump- branded attire. She sported a T-shirt that said, “WE THE PEOPLE are pissed off” on the front. On the back: Trump’s face photoshopped onto Muhammad Ali’s body with the rallying cries, “TRUMP Round 2” and “RETURN OF THE CHAMP.” It’s a play on what is arguably the most famous sports photograph in history, taken after Ali swatted Sonny Liston in the 1965 rematch for the heavyweight title. The fashion statement was paired with red, white and blue shoes, a “Women for Trump” cap and a flag that read “GOD GUNS & TRUMP.” Province residents Judy Spallino and Mary Virden toted American flags and had custody of “Trumpy Bear,” the group’s teddy bear mascot styled with a blonde wig and bushy eyebrows, and a red tie. Rich Martin, also a Province resident, said he thinks silence could bring a dictatorship in the U.S. “Most people are quiet about what they believe, and I think that’s sad,”

HEN DONALD TRUMP BECAME THE FIRST PRESIDENT ever convicted of a crime, all eyes turned to Manhattan. Then, to John Wayne Parkway. The Maricopa Republican Club utilized standstill traffic

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on that road to lobby the support of the community for former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee in November’s general election. They garnered approving honks and friendly waves one recent Saturday as they picketed on the sidewalk, undeterred by the early summer heatwave, in front of CVS. Not without the occasional middle finger, of course. Homestead resident and club president Marty Hermanson hoisted a black flag emblazoned with the calling-card mantras, “TRUMP 2020” and “TAKE AMERICA BACK,” spangled with patriotic splashes of red, white and blue. He said the group demonstrates regularly to “show support” to and “let people know that it is OK to support” Trump. They will turn the heat up when Arizona turns the heat down, demonstrating on that curb weekly starting in September. “People are tired, they want their country back,” Hermanson said, saying he favors Trump’s policies on economy, job performance and global peacetime during his presidency.

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Maricopa Police Department is no foreign place to me. I show up daily to check the latest police reports. This morning was different — I was not there to look at a binder, but to board a police cruiser (thankfully, not in the suspect transport enclosure) and catch some speeders with Sgt. Hal Koozer of the traffic unit. Koozer beckoned me to the passenger seat of his unmarked Chevrolet Impala. He laid down the ground rules — don’t get out of the car and don’t take photos of his computer screen. They were reasonable requests. It was only a few minutes after we left the police station when we busted our first speeder with the car’s built-in radar detector. The dashboard-mounted device measures the speed of cars going the opposite way, best used on lone cars and less effective against a herd. The man we pulled over was driving past Saddleback Elementary School on Porter Road at about 45 miles per hour, 10 over the limit. Koozer let me decide whether to give the man a ticket or a warning. I chose leniency. Lucky for me, that was Koozer’s first choice, too. “Even if I give a ticket, if they don’t say thank you, I didn’t do my job right.” Koozer said. “I don’t think there’s any reason to be crummy to people just because they made a mistake,” he added. “You can’t show me one person whose driven who hasn’t made a mistake.” Next came a speeding, swerving snowbird on the John Wayne Parkway overpass, and a man in a hurry to get home because he left his RV running. We left them both with warnings. The covert car was working as intended, as no one seemed to realize we weren’t just normal drivers. Koozer and I then stationed ourselves off Honeycutt Road near Rancho Mirage, where the sergeant pulled out his LiDAR gun and let me give it a shot. I held the detector up to my eye, locked the crosshairs on an oncoming car and pulled the trigger. It beeped and told me how fast the guy was going. Koozer reclaimed his detector and aimed it at an oncoming Buick, which clocked in at 57 in a 45. When dispatchers ran the plate, it came back to a Ford Fusion. The driver pleaded that the discrepancy was a dealership error, and we let her off with a warning. The last traffic stop of the day was a BMW zooming at 60 miles per hour in a 45 zone. The driver told Koozer she was simply “jamming out” to music. She got a ticket but thanked Koozer on the way out. Mission accomplished. “I got my ‘thank you,’ and ‘Nice to meet you, too’,” he told me. Before Koozer dropped me back off at HQ, he introduced me to the traffic unit’s pair of motorcycle cops: Pedro Torres and Sebastian Sanchez. Torres and I met once before at a crash I photographed, but it was nice rendezvous under more casual circ*mstances. Koozer said the two men are “the heart of the traffic unit.” Brian Petersheim Jr.

Sharing a shift with Maricopa Police Department

Sharing a shift with Maricopa Fire Department

Pictured: Fire engineer John Campanaro

Walking into Maricopa Fire and Medical Station 575, I was greeted with an immediate sense of family. Engineer John Campanaro, firefighters Connor Dignan and James Olderbak, and then-cadet Emily Colhour had gathered in the kitchen to enjoy a hardy lunch. Captain Josh Eades greeted me and gave me a rundown of what to expect during our ride-along. It was a flexible schedule. Eades told me not to take photos during medical calls and to be smart about HIPAA laws. If we were called to a crash, I was to stay in the firetruck until I was told otherwise. The first stop was the engine bay, where Eades, Dignan and Colhour gave me a tour of their toolbox on wheels. “The thing that we do mostly is EMS, so we run all of the medical calls,” Eades said, “which account for roughly 80% of call volume.” The truck was filled with tools — some as small as rolls of gauze, others as big as hydraulic clippers. Dignan and Colhour showed off a few gadgets they use to open an unconscious person’s windpipe. The CPR machine “performs perfect compressions and tracks data,” Eades said. “We’re good at compressions, but this machine, it’s perfect at its job and frees up hands.” Next came the fire tools, where I got the chance to hold the “jaws of life” — used to remove people from a car crash — and handle firemen’s axes, hoses and fire hydrant adapters, used to connect to neighboring cities’ hydrants because there is no universal thread. After the tour, the Engine 575 crew jumped into their fire suits and started training. It was a 90-degree day; naturally, they broke quite the sweat as they simulated pulling people out of buildings,

sledgehammering and scaling walls, in their 45-pound suits. They were about to start a hydrant exercise when we were interrupted by our first call of the day. Eades and I, the only two not already in the firetruck, booked it and hopped in. We put on our headsets and Eades explained we were headed to a reported seizure at Fry’s Marketplace on John Wayne Parkway. We arrived and filed through the front doors. The firefighters carried large boxes filled with medical equipment up the staircase to the employee breakroom. The injured man complained of back pain, so they called an ambulance, and he was transported to Exceptional Community Hospital. After the ambulance arrived, we headed back to the fire station — but we didn’t make it far before another call came in. An elderly woman was suffering chest pain in Glennwilde. We arrived at the home and hurried inside. The woman sat on her couch as firefighters did an electrocardiogram test to see if there were any irregularities in her cardiac cycle. She was transported to a Chandler hospital as a precaution. Leaving the woman’s home was trickier than I would have predicted. The coolant line split under the truck when we got there, so coolant gushed out of the engine and spilled all over the road. Engine 575 was immobile until city services arrived and gave us a temporary replacement to get back to the station 30 minutes later. Eades gave me a final tour of the firehouse, showing me around the dorms and dispatch system, as well as their gym, before I headed back to the InMaricopa office. Brian Petersheim Jr.

Pictured: Sgt. Hal Koozer

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PRIORITIZING PUBLIC SAFETY MY ONGOING FOCUS • Combat teen violence by restoring appreciation for the value of human life • Incarcerating dangerous people and creating a pathway to redemption & rehabilitation for the rest • Addressing both the supply & demand side in the battle against addiction • Public education focused on increasing awareness and reducing victimization Vote VOLKMER! PINAL COUNTY ATTORNEY Proudly endorsed by Pinal County Sheri Mark Lamb and the Arizona Police Association Paid for by Elect Kent Volkmer

GOVERNMENT

VOTE 2024

Meet your 2024 city, county candidates BY MONICA D. SPENCER AND BRIAN PETERSHEIM JR.

Generational divide It seems the oft-forgotten, latchkey kid generation is taking back its reign by claiming more than half of Pinal County’s candidates. Boomers followed, making up about nearly one- third of the candidates and Millennials picked up the stragglers representing 13% of candidates. Meanwhile, we’re still waiting for a Gen Z candidate to enter a city or county race.

BABY BOOMERS (60+): 7 GENERATION X (44-59): 12 MILLENNIALS (28-43): 3 GENERATION Z (UNDER 28): 0

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Where are your candidates from? In Maricopa, most of your candidates hail from the Grand Canyon State and the Midwest. Almost one-third of candidates have called Arizona “home” their entire lives, while one- fifth are transplants from Ohio, Michigan and Illinois.

CANADA 1

MIDWEST 5

NORTHEAST 4

CALIFORNIA 4

ARIZONA 7

SOUTH 1

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VOTE 2024

MAYOR

CITY COUNCIL

CITY CANDIDATES

Chrystal Allen-O’Jon

Nancy Smith

Leon Potter Leon

Eric Goettl

Amber Liermann

Bob Marsh

Le’on Willis

Would not disclose

AGE

53

62

50

51

80

75

Constitutional conservative

Republican

Independent

POLITICAL AFFILIATION

Would not disclose

Republican

Independent

Independent

Would not disclose

Upland, Calif.

Mesa

HOMETOWN

Los Angeles

Redlands, Calif.

Poultney, Vt.

Falcon, Miss.

The Villages at Rancho El Dorado

The Villages at Rancho El Dorado

Homestead

RESIDENCE

Senita

Alterra

Desert Cedars

Senita

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YEARS IN MARICOPA

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13

20

14

7

Retired

Tax professional

Religious educator

OCCUPATION

Retired

School counselor

Engineer

Retired

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Christian

Christian

RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION

Would not disclose

Christian

Unitarian

Methodist

MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE AFFECTING MARICOPA

Education, workforce development

State Route 347

Infrastructure

Infrastructure

Transportation

Transportation

Infrastructure

Maricopa Community Coalition, Community Emergency Response Team, Economic Development Committee of Pinal Partnership,

Senior Advisory Committee, Pinal County Water Augmentation Authority, Pinal County Board of Adjustments and Appeals, Pinal Partnership, Hope Women’s Center, MIT Alumni Club of Phoenix, Microsoft Alumni Club of Arizona, Desert Cedars HOA

Maricopa Pantry, Maricopa Friends of the Arts, Kids Day, Maricopa Veteran Care, Maricopa Debutante Organization, Maricopa Black Chamber of Commerce, Seeds of Change Gala

Cultural and Arts Advisory Committee, Maricopa Chamber of Commerce, Pinal Partnership, League of Arizona Cities and Towns

American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Maricopa Chamber of Commerce, Maricopa Community Coalition

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS

Would not disclose

Arizona Black Coalition

Arizona League of Cities and Towns

Trump

Undecided

Would not disclose

PRESIDENTIAL VOTE

Would not disclose

Trump

Undecided

Would not disclose

Maricopa

Maricopa

Maricopa

MARICOPA OR COPA

Maricopa

Maricopa

Maricopa

Maricopa

Roots Eatery’s Culinary Mafia

Would not disclose

Would not disclose

FOOD TRUCK

Asian Seoul

Sonora Hot Dogs Quesabirrias

SV Gourmet Kitchen

Poor Sam’s Italian Beef

BINGEWORTHY NETFLIX SHOW The Tourist

Cobra Kai

The Chosen

Fargo

Frontier

Would not disclose

Would not disclose

Sedona, Monument Valley, Canyon de Chelly, Grand Canyon

FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT IN ARIZONA

Casa Grande Ruins, Mobile

Alpine

Sedona

Grand Canyon

White Mountains

My home

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VOTE 2024

COUNTY CANDIDATES BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

COUNTY ATTORNEY

COUNTY SUPERVISOR

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, D4

Kent Volkmer Incumbent

Jill Broussard Incumbent

Ron Weber

Brad Miller

Patricia Glover

Tara Walter

George Arredondo Sr.

Rich Vitiello

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AGE

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60

43

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45

47

POLITICAL AFFLILIATION

Democrat

Republican

Republican

Republican

Republican

Republican

Republican

Republican

Summerland, British Columbia

Coolidge

New York

HOMETOWN

Rocklin, Calif.

Galion, Ohio

Detroit

Westerville, Ohio

Saratoga, N.Y.

Coolidge

Maricopa

RESIDENCE

San Tan Mountains

Florence

Casa Grande

Maricopa

San Tan Valley

Florence

YEARS IN PINAL COUNTY

53

19

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17

14

19

20

State blocking local control over zoning, water management and conservation, traffic, roads, crime, economic development, preserving rural communities

Outdated ideas, fiscal irresponsibility, school safety, teacher support and training

Threats to Democracy, lack of strategic response to county growth

BIGGEST ISSUE FACING PINAL COUNTY

Safety, wealth, desirability, security

Substance use and abuse

Unaffordable representation

Recruiting, retaining qualified teachers

Crime

COUNTY SHERIFF

COUNTY RECORDER

COUNTY TREASURER

COUNTY ASSESOR

Douglas Wolf Incumbent

Michael McCord Incumbent

Kevin Cavanaugh

Patrick Melvin

Ross Teeple

December Storm Cox

Dana Lewis

Charles Austin Jr.

Would not disclose

AGE

62

56

59

55

59

68

47

POLITICAL AFFLILIATION

Would not disclose

Republican

Republican

Democrat

Republican

Republican

Republican

Republican

Would not disclose

Chandler

HOMETOWN

Coolidge

Would not disclose

Tucson

Florence

Le Center, Minn.

Bradford, Penn.

Would not disclose

Apache Junction

RESIDENCE

Coolidge

Maricopa

Florence

Florence

Saddlebrooke

San Tan Valley

YEARS IN PINAL COUNTY

Would not disclose

34

11

18

24

49

14

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BIGGEST ISSUE FACING PINAL COUNTY

Corruption, mismanagement in county government

Drug smuggling, human trafficking, invasion at southern border

Staff shortage in sheriff’s office

Unfair taxes, property assessments

Response to rapid growth

Infrastructure, fiscal mismanagement

Would not disclose

Safety

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Other Maricopa residents have even taken to giving the so-called chemtrails nicknames in hurricane-esque fashion, like a self-styled “conspiracy theorist” who posted a series of images tagged in Maricopa on X, then Twitter, offering names like “The Phoenix,” “Basket Weaving” and “The Drunken Chemtrail.” Seedy business One devout believer in chemtrail theory is Marcy Rosemond, a 52-year-old barista from Santa Rosa Crossing. Her question is this: “What exactly are we breathing in?” Growing up in the 1970s near McChord Air Force Base in Tacoma, Wash., Rosemond’s father was an airplane mechanic. She was raised around planes and believes she’s no stranger to how they function. “In my childhood, I never saw multiple planes flying leaving trails at the same time,” she said. “That led me to seriously question if cloud seeding is really taking place, what exactly are the chemicals used and long-term effects of breathing the air.” Unlike chemtrails, cloud seeding is very real. It’s the process of launching silver iodide

fourth “strongly believe the government uses chemicals to control the population.” That means Maricopa residents believe in the conspiracy theory at rates more than triple the national average, according to Statista/ YouGov polling released in February. The nonbelievers laugh off chemtrail theory as a fringe movement. Rancho Mirage resident Brandon Ash conflated two conspiracy theories when he quipped in April, “Thankfully, my 5G service repelled the chemtrails, just like the salesman told me.” But 1 in 4 Maricopans is something more than fringe. Like another Rancho Mirage resident, Danny Martinez, who was driving through Komatke, near Laveen, when he noticed, “There sure are a lot of chemtrails today.” He called them “weather altering.” A Maricopa resident who only identified himself as Jeff last year became a contributor on the website ChemtrailsExposed.com, where he shared his findings after using a 120,000-lumen light near John Wayne Parkway and Honeycutt Road to see “flakes like a snowstorm” in the beam near suspected chemtrail spraying, in his words.

spraying he saw as “heavy.” “I walked out my front door at about 6:50 a.m. and saw lines and a huge X thing in the sky,” he recalled of the morning of March 31. “This day, the entire state was hit extremely hard. The debunkers tell me it’s normal and has to do with weather conditions…Yeah, right.” Choosing to believe It started with a 1996 Air Force research paper: “Owning the weather in 2025,” which came just after London tested more than 750 mock chemical warfare attacks on the public during the Cold War. Researchers found the chemicals used could be cancerous. The research paper’s titular year seemed a far-off, almost futuristic date at the time. More of a concept than a leaf on the calendar, like when George Orwell penned 1984 in 1949. But now it’s not even half a year away, and chemtrails “are one of the most popular conspiracy theories,” CNN declared just four months ago. An unscientific InMaricopa survey of 680 local residents in May found more than half of people think it’s possible the chemtrails theory is true or partially true, while more than one-

Marcy Rosemond, a 52-year-old barista from Santa Rosa Crossing, spots chemtrails in the sky at Copper Sky Regional Park.

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HILE RAPID development during the housing bubble kept eyes earthbound, Shawn Brian’s gaze wandered skyward. In 2006, he lived on Rancho El Dorado’s Bishop Drive. MARICOPA’S It was that year, less than six months after YouTube.com launched, when he uploaded the first video to his channel titled “Chemtrails over Arizona.” It was one of a dozen videos filmed in Maricopa that have garnered more than 200,000 views. Fashionably late to adopt his 9/11 conspiracy theories, Brian really was ahead of his time with this one. According to records from YouTube — now the second-most visited website in the world — his was the first video mentioning the word “chemtrails” ever uploaded to the site from America. A previous video referencing chemtrails was published a few weeks earlier by a user in Italy. W

The sky is falling People who endorse the chemtrails theory believe the government or other groups endorsed by the government engage in secret aerial spraying of toxic chemicals for purposes like population control, brainwashing or weather manipulation. They point to visible, linear plumes in the sky, similar to contrails, as evidence. The thick white lines that protract across the sky are actually trails of water vapor that con- dense and freeze around the exhaust from an aircraft, according to the University Corpora- tion for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. Contrails look different depending on tempera- ture and humidity. “It just seems silly,” said David Keith, a geoengineering researcher at Harvard University who has publicly debunked chemtrail theory for more than a decade. “I haven’t seen a single piece of evidence suggesting there’s anything real here. I don’t believe there is one person who really works as a normal scientist who thinks that.”

Still, the theory has gained traction in recent years, buoyed by the harangues of respected politicians and podcasters, and normalized by the references that seep into popular culture, like Lana Del Rey’s 2021 album Chemtrails over the Country Club . It’s a global phenomenon and its influence, naturally, is no less itinerant than the aircraft upon which the theory is based. But its roots in Maricopa are conspicuous and undeniable. The Global Chemtrail Report Center in September last year published a map identifying 107 locations with “known chemtrail activity” around the globe. It’s a new resource for subscribers to the theory that was accessed more than 190,000 times by June 10. One of the pins on the map is in Maricopa, near Murphy and Steen Roads. It’s one of two pins in Arizona; the other is in Kingman. Brian, a 48-year-old heavy metal musician, has submitted his Maricopa findings to the Global Chemtrail Report Center, describing the

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town much like Maricopa. It’s a hold-onto- your-tinfoil hat docudrama that Wargo said he hopes will bring “recognition about what the

counter to an artificially constrained problem. In Tennessee, Republican Gov. Bill Lee quietly signed the bill, which claims it is “documented” the federal government conducts “experiments by intentionally dispersing chemicals into the atmosphere,” into law. It’s not a partisan effort, though. Similar legislation was proposed this year in bright blue Rhode Island, where staff reporters at the left-center Newport Daily News , a local arm of USA Today , unironically published this headline: “Chemtrails Poison is Ruining Rhode Islanders’ Health From Above, and You May Not Even Know It.” In Arizona, lawmakers last year set up the Novel Coronavirus Southwestern Intergovern- mental Committee and tapped Kristen Meghan as an expert panelist. Meghan said “governments or shadowy forces are routinely spraying the planet with chemicals” on alt-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ radio show. Meghan has written that “chemtrails is a term used to disparage the truth about it.” Poison Sky The year was 1999, and Steve Wargo, a filmmaker based in Tempe, was off-roading in the desert with a friend. That’s not normal. That’s not clouds. That’s not jet trails.” STEVE WARGO, TEMPE FILMMAKER

“I stopped, and I looked up in the sky and said, ‘That’s not normal. That’s not clouds. That’s not jet trails,’” Wargo recalled. His friend replied, “’It could be those chemical trails.’” That was the first Wargo ever heard of chemtrails, a term first used no more than three years earlier. Intrigued, he quizzed another friend, a Lockheed C-130 pilot based at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. “I said, ‘How come there are different patterns? If the wind is blowing, I see some jet streams spread out, but others are rock solid,’” Wargo remembered. “The guy told me, ‘Those are spray patterns from the government.’” Examining his friend’s aircraft, he said he found nozzles along the wings and tail inconsistent with fire prevention mechanisms, what they purportedly were. In 2001, Wargo penned the screenplay for Poison Sky , consulting his cousin, the Warner Bros. writer behind 2006’s The Hoax . The film stars Kevin Sorbo, Hercules star-turned-climate change-denying MAGA mouthpiece, and Arlene Newman-Van Asperen of Lost and Jurassic World fame. Although Sorbo now lives in Florida, his film studio is in Mesa. “They kicked him out of Hollywood for being a Republican,” Wargo said of Sorbo, who is a climate disinformationist, according to the Vancouver climate think tank DeSmog. With 1.9 million followers on X, he has long been one of the platform’s most-followed right-wing activists. Tessa Harrison, a publicist for Sorbo, did not answer questions from InMaricopa for this story. But it goes without saying her client was fit like a glove into the role of Olaf Strom in Poison Sky, a movie set in a fictional Arizona

particles into certain clouds, from the ground or an aircraft, that cause the clouds to drop up to 10% more rain. Utah this year is spending $14 million on cloud seeding projects in the Upper Basin. As Rosemond sat on her back porch the morning of May 7, she watched as a plane dove from the sky, leaving a predictable contrail in its wake. Days earlier, she saw a similar plane in the same area, belching out those pesky, grid-like streaks that lingered for hours. But something was different this time. “What I saw today dissipated within seconds. It didn’t stay and fan out as it previously did,” Rosemond said that afternoon. “The weather is exactly the same, so clearly there is a difference between a contrail and cloud seeding.” Since 2007, the Central Arizona Project has helped fund cloud seeding programs in California, Colorado, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming. Today, Salt River Project is studying the feasibility of cloud seeding in the White Mountains of eastern Arizona, although officials still decry it a conspiracy theory here, saying it has never been used in the Grand Canyon State. Jasmine Nelson, who lives in Hidden Valley, said she became skeptical of the Arizona sky after learning about manmade weathering elsewhere. She said she thinks it’s possible NASA creates our rainclouds, something the federal space agency has proven it’s capable of. But the silver iodide particles associated with cloud seeding are launched into clouds — they, themselves, are not clouds. The particles aren’t visible to the naked eye and wouldn’t create skinny, protracted trails across the sky. Cloudy with a chance of screwballs The evidence against chemtrails hasn’t kept them out of politics. Arizona is no exception. During the 2018 midterm elections, the Senate Leadership Fund, aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, spend $10,000 in Arizona on an ad campaign against then-Republican Sen. Jeff Flake’s primary opponent, endowing her the sobriquet “Chemtrail Kelli.” Dr. Kelli Ward, who until last year chaired the Arizona GOP, once invited the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality to a town hall in Kingman to hear constituent concerns over chemtrails. This year, Republican lawmakers in Kentucky, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Tennessee proposed dog-whistle legislation banning so- called chemtrails. It is Potemkin legislation that serves no further purpose than as a showpiece

government is doing.” Bringing it home

Wargo, photographed often with star-studded actors and musicians like Paula Abdul, Danny Trejo and Jerry Springer, remembers his first drive into Maricopa when it was a one-light rural farming town. “You come into town, you turn left at the railroad tracks, you squiggle your way along the railroad track for a little bit and you find yourself at this Nissan track facility,” he recollected. What he described was one of many expeditions his crew made during the 23-year- and-counting journey to bring Poison Sky to the silver screen. Other scenes were filmed in Prescott, Payson and Kingman. The docudrama, when finished, may contain clips from Ward’s 2014 meeting with DEQ over chemtrails. Six days after the Lake Havasu City News-Herald reported this fact, Raw Story published this headline: “Chemtrails movie ‘Poison Sky’ to feature TV’s Hercules and terrified AZ residents.” Since then, chemtrail theory has only become more mainstream, especially near Maricopa. Six months after Ward’s town hall, the blog “Stop Chemtrails” named Pinal County Airpark “one of the most busy chemtrail base[s] of operations in the entire U.S.A.” That’s what Wargo wants to accomplish with his movie: “For people to understand.” “The government used to brag about it, and all of a sudden, they went into 100% denial,” he said. “It’s a little bit scary. It seems like nobody ever has to answer to what the government is doing.” Poison Sky was endorsed by Arizona Chemtrail Trackers, a group of some 250 activists from around the state, including Maricopa. But the movie remains unfinished. Its original investor, whom Wargo said can’t be named due to an NDA, died mid-production and the coffers dried up. The investor, who lived in metro Phoenix, “was an older guy, but he was a firm believer in the whole chemtrail thing,” Wargo said. Poison Sky is $50,000 away from completion after a journey of nearly a quarter-century. Wargo, 75, is determined to give it one more college try. If he’s successful, he believes, a few more people in Maricopa will open their eyes to the danger that has hung above their heads this whole time.

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