Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel’s implausible quickie cure

After making this September 10, 2021 announcement that she was seeking residential treatment for alcoholism, anxiety and eating disorders, Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel now says she’s ready to return to the rigors of heading the nation’s third largest prosecutor’s office.

A week is record time to deal with not one, but three, major problems. It’s not unusual for residential rehab programs to extend from three to six months or up to a year. Adel initially received treatment in a California facility, followed by local rehab.

Allister Adel might have hastened her decision after the leftist local newspaper that approves of her lenient policies called for her to step down, even after she hung a seasoned prosecutor out to dry to burnish her own image and curry media favor. Still editorial columnist Elvia Diaz, cuts Adel no slack, four days after going into treatment, as she called for Allister Adel to  “go —for good.”  Diaz accused Adel of charging too many “people of color.” ignoring the fact that they are charged because they disproportionately commit crimes. Diaz also judges the lawyers in the office by their skin pigment, claiming there are too many who are “white.” Although Adel is a Republican, her bent is decidedly left. But that’s not enough for Diaz who wants DNA to trump competence.

After initially being elected Nov. 2, 2021, and suffering a brain bleed that night, Adel returned from medical leave, four months later, in February. She has been absent from the office she is supposed to be leading more than she’s been there.

Allister Adel need to be challenged by an experienced conservative who will actually show up for the job and return professionalism to this very important office. In the interim, she needs to concentrate on her recovery and turn the duties of this important office over to her chief deputy and take the drama out of the executive office.