https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona-state-university-omni-hotel...
Arizona State University would like to take Sparky's trident to Attorney General Mark Brnovich's tuchis over the AG's legal objections to the university's multimillion-dollar real-estate deal with Omni Hotels.
The school is protesting an amended complaint Brnovich filed in state tax court last week — the latest volley in the AG's ongoing crusade to bring university president Michael Crow's vaunted "New American University" to heel. ASU released a statement accusing the pugnacious Republican of "cherry-picking" facts about the school's controversial plan to turn the land it owns at the southeast corner of University Drive and Mill Avenue into a swanky, 30,000-square-foot hotel and conference center.
Contrary to the suit's latest allegation that ASU is violating the Arizona Constitution's gift ban with $28 million in sweeteners to Omni, ASU insists the money is in fact an "investment" that would "yield revenue of approximately $140 million for the university."