Two Republicans in the Arizona Legislature—Sens. Wendy Rogers and Anthony Kern—introduced two bills this year they said would address a controversial land lease the state made with a Saudia Arabian-based company in 2015 that grants them unlimited access to groundwater in La Paz County.
The problem is, neither of their bills did—and, in fact, the legislature’s own lawyers found them to be so far off base to the point of being unconstitutional and discriminatory.
