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As I explained from the beginning, though, none of this is illegal unless Gordon is somehow benefiting personally from Mullany's fees. The law forbids public officials from using their campaign funds to enrich themselves, a prohibition that extends to anyone related by "blood or marriage."

So Gordon couldn't be paying his estranged wife through the fund. But when, at Gordon's request, former Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Zlaket did a formal review of the payments, Zlaket concluded that payments to his girlfriend are a-okay.

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You've got to love Arizona law, eh?

Frankly, I couldn't help but think of Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley, who faces a felony indictment for raising money to run for the National Association of Counties and, allegedly, using it instead on spa treatments for his family and hair implants and electronics at Bang & Olufsen.

Stapley simply wasn't thinking. Everybody knows you can't spend that money on your wife.

Dude should have taken a mistress.