Saying “I do know the work is not performed,” Pima County Legal professional Laura Conover instructed interviewers Friday that she’s inclined to hunt one other time period as the highest native prosecutor in 2024.
Conover did not formally announce her bid for a second time period, however mentioned “sure, sure, sure” when pressed on the query of whether or not she’s leaning towards one other run by radio host Invoice Buckmaster.
The Democrat, who was first elected in 2020, mentioned that her workplace remains to be making modifications to methods constructed up over 4 a long time underneath the earlier two extra conservative Democratic county attorneys.
The prosecutor was interviewed on the Invoice Buckmaster Present by the host and Sentinel Editor Dylan Smith on Friday.
Conover declined to present detailed solutions relating to the Louis Taylor case — wherein the person convicted within the 1970 Pioneer Resort hearth is looking for exoneration and compensation for what his attorneys say was a wrongful prosecution — and the Ryan Remington case — wherein her workplace tried to indict a Tucson police officer who shot and killed a shoplifter with a knife who was driving an electrical scooter.
She cited ongoing court docket instances relating to every, saying she was unable to offer particulars as a result of she is more likely to be deposed.
Conover was at first reluctant to obviously say she’s going to run once more, however when nudged responded affirmatively a number of occasions.
“Sure, sure, sure,” she mentioned, and instructed interviewers that a few of her former marketing campaign workforce had already begun drafting plans for her run within the upcoming election with out asking her, performing on the presumption that she would search to hold on to her workplace.
Conover later clarified her assertion, telling the Sentinel that her repeated “sure” wasn’t a full-bore announcement of a run.
“On the political aspect, I’m centered on supporting actually crucial metropolis races. But when and when the time is correct to resolve to run once more, I do know we’ll be greater than prepared,” she instructed the Sentinel.
Conover has been a progressive county lawyer, looking for to broaden restorative justice packages, divert mentally in poor health and drug-addicted individuals away from felony prosecutions, and has invested her workplace within the expungement of marijuana convictions.
“I do know we aren’t performed with the work we got here right here to do. We’re not even near performed,” she mentioned in a written assertion to the Sentinel on Friday afternoon. “And, I’ll share that the terribly profitable workforce that produced our shock victory in 2020 began assembly once more late final 12 months to discover a run for re-election with out even telling me. And that is one of many sweeter issues to occur in my life.”
“For now, professionally, I’m going to remain laser-focused on my 350-plus workers and the attractive group they serve,” she wrote.