WHO'S PROSECUTING SEX OFFENDERS?
NOT MAYES!
County attorneys prosecute most felonies. Mayes built a resistance docket.
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WHO'S PROTECTING ARIZONA?
NOT MAYES.
Kris Mayes lectures ICE, walks off girls' sports, stalls on Katie Hobbs, and sues Donald Trump 48 times. Warren Petersen is already doing the job she abandoned.
Fifty sourced attack lines. Stretches labeled. Receipts linked. Vote her out.
THE COMIC-BOOK INDICTMENT
Tired of a political attorney general?
Not Mayes.
Same formula as the ads: the question Arizona is asking, then the only honest answer.
WHO'S PROSECUTING CRIMINALS?
NOT MAYES!
Lawfare and environmental cases. Not a war on crime.
READ THE RECORD NOTMAYES.COMWHO'S DEFENDING LAW ENFORCEMENT?
NOT MAYES!
ICE comments. Liaison quit. Cops endorsed Petersen.
READ THE RECORD NOTMAYES.COMWHO'S SUPPORTING VICTIMS?
NOT MAYES!
Death-warrant retreat. Girls' sports walk-off. Hobbs stall.
READ THE RECORD NOTMAYES.COMWHO'S PROTECTING ARIZONA?
NOT MAYES!
Fentanyl funnel. 48 Trump lawsuits. Same excuses.
READ THE RECORD NOTMAYES.COMWHO'S DEFENDING ICE AGENTS?
NOT MAYES!
Stand-your-ground lecture aimed at federal officers.
READ THE RECORD NOTMAYES.COMWHO'S DEFENDING WOMEN'S SPORTS?
NOT MAYES!
She disqualified her office. Petersen had to step in.
READ THE RECORD NOTMAYES.COMWHO'S HOLDING HOBBS ACCOUNTABLE?
NOT MAYES!
Two-year pay-to-play probe. Still no interview.
READ THE RECORD NOTMAYES.COMWHO'S WINNING IN COURT?
NOT MAYES!
Fake electors case: fatal errors, then she dismissed it.
READ THE RECORD NOTMAYES.COMWHO'S FIGHTING CRIME, NOT TRUMP?
NOT MAYES!
Forty-eight lawsuits. She would not change a thing.
READ THE RECORD NOTMAYES.COMWHO'S STOPPING FENTANYL?
NOT MAYES!
She named the funnel. She blamed Washington.
READ THE RECORD NOTMAYES.COMWHO'S FOLLOWING THE RECORDS LAW?
NOT MAYES!
Appeals court: her office withheld records illegally.
READ THE RECORD NOTMAYES.COMCASE FILES
Look her in the face.
AI comic boards in the Stop Kavanagh style. Each one maps to a sourced charge below.
THE REPLACEMENT
Warren Petersen is already Arizona's backup attorney general.
When Mayes would not defend girls' sports, the Senate president intervened. When she would not defend other statutes, he built a mini solicitor general's office and started stacking cases. Cops noticed. Arizona's six largest law-enforcement groups endorsed him.
He is not asking for a theory of the office. He has been doing the part Mayes refused.
FIFTY QUESTIONS. ONE ANSWER.
Who's doing the job? Not Mayes.
Search by cops, Hobbs, border, sports, or lawfare. Every card cites a statute, court loss, interview, or published report.
Showing all 50 questions
Q01
Stretch + statute
Who's prosecuting sex offenders?
NOT MAYES.
County attorneys — not the Attorney General — are Arizona's public prosecutors for most felonies in county court. Mayes built a Reproductive Rights Unit on day one and a resistance docket against Trump. Street-level sex-crime prosecutions were never the center of her brand.
Q02
Stretch + statute
Who's prosecuting criminals?
NOT MAYES.
Petersen says her top two priorities became radical environmentalism and political lawfare. The statute still names county attorneys as the prosecutors of public offenses. Mayes spent the Trump years stacking federal lawsuits, not stacking convictions.
Q03
Record
Who's protecting Arizona?
NOT MAYES.
Arizona's fentanyl funnel still runs through this state. Mayes boasts about pill seizures while writing columns blaming President Trump — and while 48 lawsuits against his administration ate the office's attention.
Q04
Record
Who's standing with law enforcement?
NOT MAYES.
After her stand-your-ground comments about ICE, her own police liaison resigned. Arizona's six largest police organizations then lined up behind Warren Petersen — an unprecedented snub of a sitting attorney general.
Q05
Quote
Who's defending ICE agents?
NOT MAYES.
She called masked federal officers a 'recipe for disaster' in a stand-your-ground state and asked, as a gun owner, 'what am I supposed to do?' Cops heard a permission structure. She later said the coverage was a lie. The tape is the tape.
Q06
Legislature
Who kept the trust of Arizona cops?
NOT MAYES.
The House and Senate passed Republican resolutions calling on her to retract, affirm support for ICE, and resign because she had 'lost the trust of Arizona law enforcement officers.' Even Katie Hobbs told her to walk it back.
Q07
Record
Who's defending women's sports?
NOT MAYES.
She disqualified her entire office from defending Arizona's Save Women's Sports Act, claiming her views did not align with Superintendent Tom Horne. Warren Petersen and Ben Toma had to intervene so the law would have a lawyer.
Q08
Record
Who's defending Arizona law?
NOT MAYES.
When she will not defend a statute, legislative leaders become the de facto solicitor general. Petersen has said he is managing well over 100 cases and briefs because the AG walked off the field.
Q09
Quote
Who's enforcing the laws she doesn't like?
NOT MAYES.
On NPR she said she would not enforce Arizona's abortion statute and would 'step in and stop' any county attorney who tried. That is a prosecutor announcing she will block other prosecutors.
Q10
Record
Who's holding Katie Hobbs accountable?
NOT MAYES.
The Sunshine Residential pay-to-play probe opened in June 2024. Two years later the Democratic governor still has not sat for the interview Mayes requested, and Mayes will not say whether Hobbs will ever have to.
Q11
Record
Who's interviewing the governor?
NOT MAYES.
She told cameras nobody can blow off the Attorney General's office — then declined to answer whether the case can finish without Hobbs ever answering questions. Same party. Same ticket. Same stall.
Q12
Court loss
Who's winning the fake electors case?
NOT MAYES.
Judges found fatal errors in her grand-jury presentation. The Arizona Supreme Court refused her appeal. In June 2026 she dropped the 2024 indictment against 18 Trump allies and said she would try again — more than two years in, back at square one.
Q13
Court ruling
Who's following the public records law?
NOT MAYES.
The Court of Appeals ruled her office illegally withheld States United communications, failed to justify secrecy, and even searched the wrong date range. She declined to appeal the loss.
Q14
Record
Who's fighting crime instead of Donald Trump?
NOT MAYES.
Phoenix New Times counted 48 lawsuits against the Trump administration. Petersen calls it political lawfare. Mayes told reporters she would not do anything differently.
Q15
Document
Who waited for an actual case before suing Trump?
NOT MAYES.
Democrat attorneys general, Mayes included, signed a common-interest pact in 2024 — months before Trump won — to coordinate the lawsuit machine. The resistance was scheduled in advance.
Q16
Record
Who stayed a Republican?
NOT MAYES.
She served as a Republican on the Corporation Commission, then bolted to the Democrats in 2019 citing Trump. The party did not leave her. She left the voters who put her on a statewide ballot as a Republican.
Q17
Record
Who's seeking death warrants for killers?
NOT MAYES.
One of her first acts was trying to withdraw Mark Brnovich's execution warrant for Aaron Gunches while Hobbs paused the death penalty. The Arizona Supreme Court had to issue the warrant over her retreat.
Q18
Record
Who's securing the border?
NOT MAYES.
She opposed Proposition 314 as racial profiling and economic 'havoc.' After voters passed the Secure the Border Act, the ACLU itself said there was still no sign any Arizona agency was enforcing the illegal-entry crime.
Q19
Stretch + record
Who's stopping the fentanyl funnel?
NOT MAYES.
She admits Arizona is 'the fentanyl funnel for the rest of the nation,' then spends her energy blasting the Trump administration instead of owning the results on her watch.
Q20
Endorsements
Who's backed by Arizona's cops?
NOT MAYES.
Petersen has the Arizona Police Association, Fraternal Order of Police, State Troopers Association, CLEAA, Phoenix Police Sergeants and Lieutenants, and AZCOPS. That is the cop vote telling you who they trust with the badge.
Q21
Record
Who's protecting girls in locker rooms?
NOT MAYES.
She would not defend the law that keeps males off girls' teams. Horne had to hire private counsel. Petersen had to intervene. The AG's job is to defend the state's laws. She picked a side against girls.
Q22
Stretch
Who's prosecuting cartels like terrorists?
NOT MAYES.
In 2022 she would not match the Republican call to treat cartels as terrorist organizations. As AG she still talks seizures and federal partners while the funnel stays open.
Q23
Record
Who's transparent about States United?
NOT MAYES.
An outside left-aligned group memoed her office on how to charge 'fake electors.' When Judicial Watch asked for the paper trail, her office hid names, skipped years, and lost in the Court of Appeals.
Q24
Campaign promise
Who depoliticized the Attorney General's office?
NOT MAYES.
She ran promising to take politics out of the office. Then came 48 Trump lawsuits, a bungled elector case, a two-year Hobbs stall, and a refusal to defend women's sports. Petersen is running on a 180-degree shift.
Q25
Lawsuit
Who's defending election-integrity rules?
NOT MAYES.
She joined the Democratic AG pile-on against President Trump's elections executive order, calling federal voter-roll pressure an 'unconstitutional intrusion' — while her own elector case collapsed in state court.
Q26
Stretch
Who's putting victims first?
NOT MAYES.
Victims of homicide waited while she tried to undo a death warrant. Girls lost their lawyer at the AG's office. ICE officers got a lecture about lethal force. The people who bleed are not the people she litigates for.
Q27
Record
Who's stopping illegal immigration?
NOT MAYES.
She told Arizonans they do not have to open the door to ICE on an administrative warrant and accused the agency of 'trashing our Constitution.' That is an AG coaching resistance, not enforcement.
Q28
Campaign contrast
Who's a tough-on-crime attorney general?
NOT MAYES.
Petersen: fight crime, keep Arizona safe, defend the Constitution, root out corruption. Mayes: antitrust, data centers, groundwater, reproductive litigation, and a Trump-lawsuit mill. Different jobs.
Q29
Quote
Who thinks the AG gets to veto statutes?
NOT MAYES.
NOT MAYES — wait, that is exactly what she claimed. Her spokesman said she 'cannot defend laws that she believes are unconstitutional.' Courts decide constitutionality. She decided in advance.
Q30
Stretch + agency
Who's prosecuting street crime?
NOT MAYES.
Her own voter guide brags about mergers, rent, groundwater, tariffs, and $1.5 billion in federal-funds lawsuits. Crime is a talking point. Lawfare is the product.
Q31
Endorsements
Who's standing with Arizona sheriffs?
NOT MAYES.
Petersen has sheriffs, county attorneys, and retired Border Patrol in his corner. Mayes has a resigned police liaison and a censure resolution. Choose your backup.
Q32
Record
Who's enforcing voter-approved border law?
NOT MAYES.
Prop 314 passed with about 61 percent. She had already called it a profiling bill. Months after the illegal-entry crime could be used, immigrant-rights lawyers noted nobody was being arrested under it.
Q33
Stretch + record
Who's protecting parents' rights?
NOT MAYES.
She walked off the girls' sports case and built a Reproductive Rights Unit to coordinate with other blue states. Parents who wanted biological reality in schools did not get the state's lawyer.
Q34
Stretch
Who's making human trafficking the top file?
NOT MAYES.
Trafficking lives on the same corridors as the fentanyl funnel. Her headline docket was Trump, Hobbs-without-an-interview, and electors she could not get past a grand-jury error.
Q35
Certified result
Who won a mandate?
NOT MAYES.
She took the office by 280 votes after a recount shrank her lead. That is not a blank check to pick which Arizona laws exist.
Q36
Record
Who answered the House investigation?
NOT MAYES.
Legislative Republicans opened a probe into her refusal to defend state law. She skipped it. Her office said there was 'no reason to respond.'
Q37
Record
Who retracted the ICE comments?
NOT MAYES.
She said right-wing media lied, then promised she would not stop attacking the Trump administration for 'trashing our sacred constitution.' Hobbs asked for a retraction. The comments stayed.
Q38
Legislature
Who resigned after losing law enforcement?
NOT MAYES.
HR 2004 and SR 1036 called for resignation. She kept the office, kept the lawsuits, and kept running. Arizona still has a choice in November.
Q39
Quote
Who's prosecuting under the abortion statutes?
NOT MAYES.
'I will not prosecute any doctor, any pharmacist, any nurse for abortion. Period.' Then Hobbs ordered her office to take those cases away from county attorneys so nobody else could either.
Q40
Record
Who's focused on Arizona, not Washington?
NOT MAYES.
Forty-eight federal lawsuits. A death-threat review of a Trump rally line about Liz Cheney. A multi-year elector reboot. Meanwhile the Hobbs interview still has not happened.
Q41
Record
Who's defending biological reality?
NOT MAYES.
The Save Women's Sports Act says teams for women and girls may not be opened to students of the male sex. She called that unconstitutional and left the building.
Q42
Campaign contrast
Who's ending the lawfare?
NOT MAYES.
Petersen has already said he will drop the political docket and put crime first. Mayes said she would not change a thing about the 45-plus Trump suits.
Q43
Stretch + record
Who prosecutes both parties the same?
NOT MAYES.
She got a guilty plea from Republican former lawmaker Austin Smith on petition signatures. The Democratic governor's pay-to-play file is two years old and still waiting on a sit-down.
Q44
Campaign promise
Who's a lawyer for all Arizonans?
NOT MAYES.
That was the slogan. The record is a blue-state AG: abortion non-enforcement, sports-law walk-off, ICE lectures, Trump lawsuits, and a Hobbs probe that never quite lands.
Q45
Stretch
Who's protecting seniors from cartels and killers?
NOT MAYES.
She markets elder-scam work and consumer cases. Cartels, fentanyl, and capital murder got speeches, pauses, and blame-shifting to Washington.
Q46
Record
Who kept lethal injection moving?
NOT MAYES.
She pulled the Gunches warrant and announced she would not seek execution orders during Hobbs' review. Families of murder victims do not get to pause justice for a Democratic process study.
Q47
Record
Who investigated Trump's rally rhetoric instead of finishing Hobbs?
NOT MAYES.
NOT MAYES — she did investigate the Cheney comments as a possible death threat the same day, while the governor's interview request aged on the desk.
Q48
Court loss
Who's winning in court?
NOT MAYES.
Elector indictment: fatal errors, Supreme Court rejection, dismissal. Public records: illegal withholding. Sports: she would not even show up. That is not a winning prosecutor. That is a political operator.
Q49
Record
Who raided a county attorney while the governor waited?
NOT MAYES.
NOT MAYES — she did raid Apache County Attorney Michael Whiting's office and home in 2024, then took supervisory control. Rural prosecutors get warrants. The Democratic governor gets patience.
Q50
Certified + contrast
Who should be Arizona's next Attorney General?
NOT MAYES.
The certified GOP nominee is Senate President Warren Petersen — the man who already had to defend the laws she abandoned. General election: November 3, 2026.
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THE RECEIPTS
Every punch has a citation.
Some lines are straight record. Some are campaign stretches built on a real statute, court loss, or quote. Open the original before you share it.
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Statute | Arizona Legislature
A.R.S. 11-532: County attorney powers and duties -
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Statute | Arizona Legislature
A.R.S. 41-192: Powers and duties of the attorney general -
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Statute | Arizona Legislature
A.R.S. 41-193: Department of law powers and duties - 04
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News | The Arizona Republic
Kris Mayes' police liaison resigns amid blowback to ICE comments -
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Interview | KTAR
AZ AG Kris Mayes on if ICE can legally enter homes -
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Statement | KTAR
AG Kris Mayes: ICE comments mischaracterized -
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News | Arizona Mirror
GOP lawmakers condemn Kris Mayes for warning about masked agents and stand your ground -
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News | The Arizona Republic
Mayes drops fake electors charges, will seek new indictment -
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News | Arizona Daily Star / Capitol Media Services
Arizona AG forced to start over in fake electors case after appeal loss -
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Court coverage | Judicial Watch / Capitol Media Services
Court rules Arizona AG Kris Mayes illegally withheld information -
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News | Arizona Mirror
Mayes won't appeal ruling that her office broke public records law -
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News | Phoenix New Times
Arizona AG Kris Mayes has sued Trump 48 times. Is she winning? -
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News | Arizona Daily Independent
Mayes and fellow Democrat AGs planned to sue Trump nearly 7 months before he was reelected -
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News | Arizona Daily Star / Capitol Media Services
Trump looms over Arizona attorney general showdown -
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Interview | KTAR
Warren Petersen vows 180-degree shift in AG's office if he wins -
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Interview | KTAR
Warren Petersen makes his case for AG -
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News | Arizona's Family
Arizona AG won’t say if Hobbs will ever face formal interview in pay-to-play probe -
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News | Arizona Capitol Times
Mayes expects pay-to-play investigation to wrap before election -
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News | The Arizona Republic
Arizona attorney general won't defend transgender student sports ban -
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News | Arizona Daily Star / Capitol Media Services
GOP lawmaker launches probe of Arizona Attorney General -
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News | Arizona Daily Star / Capitol Media Services
Arizona AG won't participate in House probe of her office - 23
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Agency | Arizona Attorney General's Office
Attorney General actions on reproductive rights -
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News | Associated Press
Arizona executions on hold amid review ordered by governor -
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News | Associated Press
Arizona court OKs execution request that AG tried to undo - 27
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Op-ed coverage | KTAR
Arizona AG says Trump admin abandoned drug trafficking fight -
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Endorsement | AZ Free News
Arizona State Troopers Association endorses Warren Petersen -
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Endorsement | AZ Free News
Warren Petersen adds two law enforcement endorsements -
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Voter guide | AZ Luminaria
Your AZ attorney general voter guide -
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Election result | CNN
Recount confirms Democrat Kris Mayes won Arizona attorney general race -
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Background | Wikipedia (sourced compilation)
Kris Mayes biography and tenure -
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News | The Arizona Republic
Kris Mayes, former Corporation Commissioner, enters attorney general race as a Democrat - 36
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Official guide | Citizens Clean Elections Commission
2026 primary voter education guide: attorney general -
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Official biography | Arizona Senate Republican Caucus
Warren Petersen Senate biography -
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Certified result | Arizona Secretary of State
Official canvass of the July 21, 2026 primary election -
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Election calendar | Arizona Secretary of State
2026 election calendar -
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Debate | Good Morning America / ABC
Arizona AG candidates spar on abortion and election lies -
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Agency report | Arizona Attorney General's Office
Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Report -
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Prosecution | Arizona Attorney General's Office
Conviction of former legislator Austin Smith -
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Campaign | Petersen campaign
Warren Petersen for Attorney General