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Groscost in Mesa Riverview battle
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Feb 09, 2006 01:06pm |
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| Category | General |
| Media | Newspaper - East Valley Tribune |
| News Date | Saturday, March 12, 2005 07:05:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Jeff Groscost funded the Riverview at Dobson referendum effort, a move the Riverview supporters claim is further proof its competitor is leading the opposition.
The former Mesa lawmaker, who is on retainer with the developer of the competing Tempe Marketplace project, donated $32,000 to Valley Business Owners (And Concerned Citizens) between June and January: $5,000 on July 22, $19,000 on Nov. 16, $2,000 on Dec. 4 and $6,000 on Jan. 10.
The Nov. 16 donation was made four days after the group’s president David Molina filed paperwork to launch the referendum effort. It was nearly the exact amount spent on fliers and paid petitioners.
The group filed a court document Friday naming Groscost as a contributor, shortly before Molina was scheduled to answer questions under oath in a defamation lawsuit filed by Riverview developers Kimco Developers and De Rito Partners Development.
Groscost’s involvement capped a week in which business owners Dan Harkins — who is building a theater at Tempe Marketplace — and Eddie Basha announced their opposition to Riverview and contributed a combined $92,025 to the effort.
Groscost, the former Arizona Speaker of the House of Representatives who lost an election following the alternative-fuels fiasco, has surfaced recently in other cases.
He was paid by a Gilbert auto mall developer to gather signatures to stop Kimco and De Rito’s Chandler auto mall proposal. That case was later settled by a confidential deal between the developers. He also assisted Vestar Development in a successful 2003 Gilbert election to allow it to proceed with the Crossroads Towne Center. And although Tempe Marketplace never went to a vote, Groscost said he offered advice throughout the approval process. |
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