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B6 TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2007 VALLEY STATE THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC Support grows for attempt to recall constable Constable recall Tamera Thomas is on a mission to recall a Maricopa county constable who for years has been stripped of her (f Key events A timeline of key events involving Constable Annette Clark: November 2000: Clark unseats a GOP incumbent, 2002: Complaints about Clark's behavior, including allegations of harassing a bellhop during a Nevada conference, trying to have a cook arrested for burning her food and failing to serve papers on time. A state ethics board recom duties over complaints about her behavior, yet is still allowed to collect a $56,000 paycheck from the county. Map area Annette Clark Glendale Ave. I mends that Clark resign. Clark says the complaints are unfounded.

2003: Maricopa County Presiding Judge Colin Campbell strips Clark of her duties. He also issued a letter indicating that her services were no longer required, followed by a similar administrative order. 2004: Voters re-elect Clark. Court officials tell her that her services "are not required during your next term of office." She continues to draw a salary. 2007: A recall effort begins.

neatly lined up and fastened with voter-registration forms and petitions. "We're the ones that put her in office," Thomas said. "It's time to get her out. "I have been in this business going on 15 years, and I have always been able to manage a property effectively," she said. "This constable situation has cost me time and money.

And us taxpayers have paid her thousands and thousands of dollars for doing Thomas and her crew of volunteers have until June 21 to turn in 7,876 signatures from registered voters who live in the district to county elections officials. So far, Thomas has collected about 2,000 signatures, she said. If county officials determine there are sufficient qualified signatures, Clark will be notified and she will have five days to resign, said Karen Osborne, county elections director. If Clark doesn't resign, there would be a special election and any registered voter from the district could run. Clark is automatically a candidate for the seat under Arizona law.

The election could be as early as September of this year and as late as March 2008. complex and says the Clark situation often holds up evictions. The county assigned a deputy constable to pick up Clark's duties, but the precinct is the second-busiest in the county. The only way Clark can be removed from office is if she commits a malfeasance of office, a felony, or is voted out. "I run my properties efficiently and if you don't pay, you're going to be out the same month," said Thomas, 39.

"I'm ticked off because I can no longer pre-rent my projected evictions because I can't predict when they're going to be evicted. It affects me and every property owner in the area." Thomas has reached out to about 25 other property owners, managers and companies that work with the landlords, asking them to gather signatures for the recall. Among them is Matthew Koglmeier, a lawyer whose firm represents dozens of landlords statewide and some in east Phoenix. "The consequence of this is the additional time it takes to regain possession of property that the courts have decided the landlord is entitled to," said Koglmeier. "(Clark) was elected to do the job, and she can't do the job, yet she's col- Bethany HomeRdVfaradise CarrelbaARd.

Phoeriix jJ 1 I Ifdian School Rd. ARCADIA PRECINCT McDowell Rd. 10 I get rid of an elected official with a stroke of a pen and taking the law and using it anyway they want to," she said in 2003. Clark has filed a lawsuit against county officials, challenging their authority to keep her from performing her job. Notices cost time, money Much of Thomas' recall movement takes place in the rental office.

A district map hangs on the wall, along with a picture of Clark. Clipboards are ure to serve court papers on time to rude behavior and harassment. A state ethics board recommended Clark resign in July 2002, but had no authority to remove or suspend her. In October 2003, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge stripped Clark of her duties. Clark was not available for an interview, her attorney said, but in previous Republic interviews, she said the allegations were unfounded.

"What they're trying to do is TONY BUSTOSTHE ARIZONA REPUBLIC lecting the job's salary. People need to know about this." Board urged resignation Voters elected Clark, a Democrat, in November 2000. Complaints about her started shortly after, ranging from fail- Mansion likely paid for by porn JdB I MARK HENLETHE ARIZONA REPUBLIC Cable Rosenberg paid for his eight-bedroom, Tudor-style mansion in Chandler through wealth that probably came through Internet pornography. By Yvonne Wingett The Arizona Republic Tamera Thomas raced around a sweltering apartment rental office one afternoon, working the phones and instructing people on the rules of collecting voter signatures. For several hours, she dispatched volunteers to gather signatures from east Phoenix ZIP codes.

She passed out clipboards and petitions, patted volunteers on the back, called them "honey," and thanked them for "stepping up" as she guided them out the door. Thomas is on mission to recall the county constable from the East Phoenix No. 2 precinct. Four years ago, a judge stripped Annette Clark of her duties. But under Arizona law she still collects a $56,000 paycheck from Maricopa County.

Clark's term is up Dec. 31, 2008; it's unclear whether she will seek re-election. Constables serve papers for justice courts, including evictions, notices in lawsuits and restraining orders. The county has had to hire temporary help to do Clark's work. Thomas is sick of it.

She is the property manager of the Courtyards at 24th apartment Verrado High School Environmentally friendly features include: An estimated 29 percent in energy savings, $42,916 a year. Use of low-flow fixtures saves 718,445 gallons of water a year. Locally quarried and produced brick were used to reduce shipping pollution for materials. Students' desks and the school carpeting are from recyclable materials. Low-maintenance porcelain tile eliminates stripping and waxing waste.

Monitoring carbon-dioxide levels helps improves air quality and reduces energy consumption. Source: Agua Fria Union High School District High school a lesson in conservation VERRADO Continued from Bl "They have become gradually more aware over time," Principal Tom Huffman said of Verrado High School's first class. "They learned that each waterless urinal saves about 40,000 gallons of water a year. It's a big number that surprises them." Verrado High School, which opened last fall and is part of the Agua Fria Union High School District, will be the first Arizona high school certified under the Leadership in Energy Environmental Design Silver Green Building Rating System. The LEED program, administered by the U.S.

Green Building Council, sets guidelines for high-performance green buildings. Verrado developer DMB Associates donated the 53 acres for the school and provided $2.25 million for enhancements. To increase sustainability, Verrado High was built with local materials. David Schmidt, an architect who worked on the project for his firm, OrcuttWinslow Partnership, said the design uses sunlight from the north and south in place of traditional lighting. The firm also used low-flow plumbing systems.

This is the first large-scale project from OrcuttWinslow to use these types of designs for sustainability and learning concepts. The school has drawn inquiries from other architects and educators. Even the students are working on a project to create permanent signs highlighting aspects of their green building. And district officials are using it as an environmentally friendly model for future schools, including the district's fifth high school. A version of this story may have appeared in your community Republic.

MANSION Continued from Bl raphy business is more competitive today and harder to make money at. But Rosenberg apparently got in early, in the late 1990s, and was able to buy the Chandler house in 2002 for $6.75 million, when he was 29. Rosenberg and his attorney did not return repeated phone calls seeking comment. He did not respond to messages left at his home or with his Realtor. What the records show Internet pornography is generally legal and protected by freedom of speech, providing it is not shown to children or filmed with people younger than 18.

But the Internet has caused it to be seen by people who don't want it, mainly through e-mail spam. In 2000, Web host Geocities accused Rosenberg of diverting people who mistyped "geocities" as "geociities" into their Web browser to one of his porn sites. According to the World Intellectual Property Organization's Arbitration and Mediation Center, the site kept generating new pop-up windows for pornography and wouldn't let users out. Rosenberg never responded to the claims, and the arbitration panel ordered his domain name be transferred to Geocities. Arizona Corporation Commission records show that Rosenberg owns a company called Dogfart Productions Inc.

That company is connected to and six related porn sites. According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Rosenberg owns the federal trademark for Dogfart. It is described in patent records as being in the business of "entertainment, namely, production of motion picture films, videotapes, CD-ROMs, DVDs and cassettes featuring adult entertainment; and providing information in the field of adult entertainment via a global computer network." An attempt to reach a Tempe man who claims in his Internet site, to be a photographer for Dogfart or some of its sites also was unsuccessful. His blogs often refer to taking pictures at "Dogfart's Secret Mansion" and suggest it is in California.

A man who answered the phone at a tiny office on Mill Avenue that is listed as the technical contact for the site hung up. March gathering in Tempe Although experts estimate 80 percent of porn is filmed in California, the industry has a presence in the Valley, although it is unclear how large. One of Rosenberg's sites mentioned certain sex acts and said last week "now filming in Glendale, Laveen, Paradise Valley, Phoe- Fire scorches Big victory really isn't MONTINI Continued from Bl oldest boy, and we would talk a lot. All the time, really." Phillip Wilson was in jail for a probation violation when he was attacked by gang members, supposedly over a drug debt. A deputy said at the time that investigators were having trouble getting witnesses to talk.

"No one wants to say anything because they don't want to be the next one," he said. Arpaio told me Monday that the main suspect in the case died of cancer in prison. No one has been prosecuted. Wilson's family sued. They felt that Wilson should have been protected in jail.

Last week, a jury decided that the Sheriff's Office should not be held liable. "Of course I'm happy about it," Arpaio told me, "because it shows that we do run a good tent city." The family of the man who was murdered still doesn't quite agree. "It was kind of hard to hear the sheriff and others talking about Pearl said. "No matter what would have happened in the case, it still wouldn't have been a win for me. I still would have lost a son." After her son's funeral, Pearl had a bench placed near the grave so she can sit and talk to him.

Kind of like what she did each day and night while Phillip was in a coma. "The day that he got beaten, the way he looked, I don't believe I've seen anything worse in my life," she said. "They told me that he probably wouldn't last through the night. But it went on and on. I just sat next to the bed and talked to him, hoping that he heard me.

Hoping that he knew someone who loved him was nearby." I've heard from many people over the years who believe that if a person commits a crime, or is accused of committing a crime, and somehow winds up in jail, then whatever happens to him while he's locked up is his fault Period. "Phil did wrong," Pearl said. "There's no denying that. The drugs. And we never approved of him doing wrong.

But he also did good. He had a lot of good in him. He could have had a life that was worth something. At the least he didn't deserve to be beaten to death. "He never hurt anybody but himself.

He wasn't a violent person at all. You know, after your children grow up and leave home, you may not approve of what they do, but you can't stop loving them. Phil is what I lost. Not that lawsuit." Still, if the sheriff is correct and the verdict was a "great victory," isn't gloating about it a way of running up the score? On a grieving mother. Reach Montini at ed.montiniarizonarepublic.com or (602) 444-8978.

Read his blog at montiniblog.azcentral.com. 'h: i5si at 4.1. 44 31 1 Photos, police report online View a slide show of photos from the house and read the police report detailing the assault charge at chandler azcentral.com. According to police reports, it was in this hidden room that Chandler police found Rosenberg hiding in June when they searched his house after responding to a complaint that he had assaulted his longtime girlfriend and mother of his two young sons. According to police records, she said Rosenberg got mad after she asked if he had been to a strip club, then picked her up and pushed her against the kitchen counter.

Because of the home's size, the first officers to respond had to ask for backup searching the mansion's rooms and guesthouse. It took four officers to sweep the house looking for Rosenberg, and they had to kick in at least three locked doors. When they did, police reports said, they found two other men and two women in various rooms. One woman lying on a couch appeared to be intoxicated, police said, and claimed to work as an exotic other woman admitted using cocaine the day before, police said. After police had searched every room, Rosenberg's girlfriend told them about the "dungeon" behind the bookcase.

That's where police found him. Rosenberg has been charged with misdemeanor assault and disorderly conduct in the incident. He's due in court today. reach acres A portion of Forest Road 300 is also closed, she said. The fire, which began Sunday evening, moved south during the night because of winds, Pike said.

"High winds whipping it everywhere just dropped it over the (Mogollon) Rim," she said. Pike added that the winds were not as strong as forest officials had expected. The fire is inaccessible to firefighters by land because of rough terrain, so most of the work is being done by air, Pike said. "Basically, right now it's going to be an air show," she said. "We're going to have a lot of helicopters and things like that like dropping retardant." nix, Scottsdale, Tempe." In March, Tempe's Mission Palms hotel was the site for a gathering of porn-industry insiders.

The eighth-annual event included seminars on legal, billing and other issues and offered a happy hour at a Hooters restaurant and a golf tournament. The forum was sponsored in part by a low-key but major Tempe-based payment processing company called CCBill. The company claims in its ads to process millions of Internet payments a year. CCBill officials declined comment. Trouble at the mansion From the street, Rosenberg's graceful, Tudor-style mansion appears inconsistent with the porn industry.

The secluded home is tucked back off Kyrene Road, just north of Ray Road, and sits amid 10 acres dotted with numerous pine trees, gardens and a private lake. The home has 10 bathrooms and looks like it could fit into the English countryside. But inside there are Gothic touches, including a hand-painted mural that Rosenberg commissioned showing Archangel Michael and the devil. Prior to revelations about his porn business surfacing, Rosenberg allowed a reporter and photographer to tour the house with a Realtor, showing off extensive hand-carved wood adornments and furniture, chandeliers, an ornate TV theater room and part of his collection of about 20 vehicles. He also offered a tour of a secret basement room with an entrance hidden behind a bookshelf that was originally built as a bomb shelter.

Rosenberg said he called it "the dungeon." 900 hard to DON GELOWITZ The Promontory Fire on the Mogollon Rim near Christopher Creek is being fought mostly by air. yon Lake recreational areas, about 40 miles east of Payson, are consequently closed, Pike said. 0 i By Shea Drefs The Arizona Republic The Tonto National Forest's first major fire of the year was burning over 900 acres late Monday, a forest spokeswoman said. A small portion of the fire was in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests. The Promontory Fire, about 110 miles northeast of Phoenix near the Promontory Lookout, increased from 40 acres Sunday to 200 acres Monday morning, said Tammy Pike, a spokeswoman for the Tonto National Forest.

It rushed over additional acreage during the day Monday. Officials did not know the fire's cause. i Bear Canyon Lake and Woods Can-.