The cost of Arizona Republican Doug Ducey’s illegal shipping container “wall” is now close to $180 million, as the state is preparing to dismantle the ugly eyesore following a federal lawsuit, Arizona Daily Star reports.
Arizona late last month agreed to begin taking down the unlawful “wall” following a lawsuit from the federal government. Arizona Daily Star reports it won’t be cheap: AshBritt Management & Logistics, which was paid nearly $100 million in taxpayer funds to illegally dump the containers on federal lands, will now get another $77.2 million in taxpayer funds to dismantle the faux-well and remove the containers.
It appears that Ducey’s not entirely done bilking taxpayers, because the Arizona Daily Star said that Ducey’s “private attorney-- hired with state tax dollars—filed legal papers in federal court to keep alive a separate lawsuit he filed asking a judge to declare there is no federal ownership of the land.” It’s unclear how that will proceed since Democrat Katie Hobbs has now been sworn in as the new governor and his lawsuit has now become her lawsuit. Arizona Daily Star reported that a Hobbs press aide called the shipping containers “a political stunt that backfired at the taxpayers’ expense.’’
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