Jerk of the Week Award

April 8, 2016

So, who is the biggest jerk in politics this week? No, it isn't a loudmouth presidential candidate. It is David Gowan, Republican Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives.

David Gowan (Photo: Howard Fischer,
 Capitol Media Services)

Journalists have been printing dirt about the Speaker off and on since his election in 2009, but this week Gowan had enough of the pesky media reporting his misuse of public money for his own benefit and cutting public services. What does a jerk politician do? What else but ban reporters from public meetings.

Thanks, Phoenix Society of Professional Journalists and Arizona Capitol Times, for the surprising story about a bad politician. Go get ‘em!

Read the story HERE.