So what is it about this article? October 22, 2023. You don’t think I’ve been watching do you? Do you have any idea where the LatLon of 38°53’43.4″N 77°02’22.2″W is? Do you perhaps know why that specific location has been visiting this site and this page every month since September and now is playing watch me access. Twice each hour since 10PM last night. OK to save you the time, that LatLon is the exact location of the corner of 17th and E St NW Washington DC. Here.
UPDATE FEB 2020: See the new information that tells the story of WHY it appears this man holds this position. THERE IS HISTORY HERE!!! SEE the follow up answer HERE and right here!
Back on August 31, 2019 the article Who Is Garland Shreves And Why Is He Moonlighting As Chief Of Staff To Kent Volkmer was published. It has been quite busy ever since. And it felt alone. Like it was abandoned. Like it was forgotten. That ‘why’ needed answering.
So….
On March 7, 2015 InMaricopa published https://www.inmaricopa.com/opposition-to-college-tax-hike-goes-to-court/
“Garland Shreves is accusing the board of violating Open Meeting law at its May 19 meeting and failing to provide the Truth in Taxation notice for its June 9 meeting. Ultimately, he wants to clear out most of the board and unseat the college president.”
“Shreves, chairman of the group Citizens for Fair Taxation (CFFT), said he is taking the case to court himself because he did not want to wait for the complaint process between the County Attorney’s Office and the Attorney General.”
So not wanting to wait: on June 25, 2015 Garland Shreves filed suit to against CENTRAL ARIZONA COLLEGE to get rid of their board. S-1100-CV-201501190 SHREVES VS PINAL CO COMM COLL. Attorney Kent P. Volkmer of the Wallace, Volkmer & Weagant law practice filed the action. It didn’t take long.
“If a judge agrees with that interpretation and affirms the board violated the Truth in Taxation law, the college board would not be allowed to raise the rate at all this fiscal year, which ends June 30, 2016. Superior Court Judge Jason Holmberg will hear the case. The hearing to show cause is set for Aug. 10 at 9 a.m.” For background: “Shreves’ definitive goal and the reason he formed Citizens for Fair Taxation [CFFT] was to remove the other four members of the board: Board President Gladys Christensen (who is said to have had Shreves escorted from a room by an armed guard), Rita Nader, Rick Gibson and Jack Yarrington. He wants to replace them with board members who are fiscally conservative. He said he also wants the college to replace Helmich and Vice President of Finance Chris Wodka.”
Well, after a motion to dismiss: Jan 26, 2016 case is thrown out with prejudice!
Apparently still not wanting to “wait for the complaint process between the County Attorney’s Office and the Attorney General” on May 23, 2016 Volkmer seems to continue to represent Shreves and starts http://kentvolkmer.com to run for County Attorney’s position. He won.
On Jan 3, 2017 Kent Volkmer was sworn in as County Attorney.
He hired Garland Shreves as Chief of Staff.
https://centralaz.edu/about-cac/governance/board-of-governors/ tells us that Board President Gladys Christensen is STILL THE BOSS. Rick Gibson is still there.
So perhaps now we know a bit more about Garland Shreves and why he moonlighting as Chief of Staff to Kent Volkmer. Of course, maybe we don’t it all.
Prior to this piece I have never mentioned a staff member who is not an attorney and directly involved in the cases this site is all about. That changes. Now!
The Pinal County Attorney’s Office lied and refused service of process for the final challenge in Federal Court. Who was responsible for that?
Look at this: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garland-shreves-a1381515/
Garland Shreves is the founder and current CEO of Research for Life. OK!
Garland Shreves is chief of staff for the Pinal County Attorney’s Office. WTF?
Now why would he have removed his social network account? oh well… never mind… see the news about Mr. Shreves.
No wait… he got rid of them all………. well not all… THIS is his account on Twitter but it is obviously purged back to 2014. (Purging social network accounts seems to be a ‘thing’ for Arizona politicans.)
So how about videos? Anybody who makes a Youtube account does it to put up a video. Hmmmm….
Nothing.. hmmm.. so what has he liked on Youbetube? The ‘likes’ really show what a person is interested in.
How tequila is made; travel to Brasil; block ads on an iphone 7; some music (country – good taste too!); Ways to help increase value of your business and …. huh? HOW TO DELETE YOUTUBE VIDEOS…………. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm there is the #pinalcounty #arizona purge accounts problem again.
And now we come to the reason for this article:
The last document the Pinal County Attorney’s office had to respond to in federal court, was not responded to by Pinal County, or the State of Arizona for that matter. It was ignored by the state and flat out lied about by the county (and the filing was stolen in the mail) . How was that a lie? Someone, and it is most logically the Chief of Staff or Volkmer himself or it could be Costello or it could be a totally inept clerk (sure), refused service by declaring that the attorney it was addressed to ( Kevin Costello working there since 2013 and registered as the appearing counsel!) did not work at the Pinal County Attorney’s Office. The recipient was ‘unknown’ to that office. Even when the same Costello was before the federal court in the case being refused and STILL IS!
Here is the envelope they refused and the stamps put upon it. This is the first time the entire envelope has been presented publicly. The court cut off the tracking numbers in their copy when it was placed on the docket.
You’ll notice the misspelling of “Pinal County Attorney’s Office”. The reason was not a mistake. “Pinal County Attonrey’s Office” was the exact spelling used by Kevin Costello when he appeared in the case and it is contained ON THE APPEALS DOCKET to this day.
The answer to why it was refused has a lot to do with the mail being stolen and obviously somebody decided it was prudent to stop digging the hole. Since the state received the filing before the county and did not refuse it, the state told the county what was in it and that ended the case. It was good to see Costello fold like a cheap suit, even though they swore to the Postal Service they never heard of the guy. So who did that refusal, of a court filing sent to a PO BOX: that took a day to think it over before returning it to sender (bad mistake dummies) ??? hmmm???
The question remains and needs answering.
WHY is Garland Shreves the Chief of Staff to Kent Volkmer AND the current CEO of Research For Life, a company that does business in the same county the CEO is running the LAW IN?
I know the answer to that question.
Altogether now… can we say Mohave?