The Nation - News from Jan. 15, 1988

Arizona House members waited anxiously for a special counsel’s report that will help them decide whether to impeach Gov. Evan Mecham for failing to report a $350,000 campaign loan. “Everybody keeps hinting that there will be ‘the bombshell’ and I just don’t know,” said House Minority Leader Art Hamilton, a Democrat. A vote by the state House could come as early as next week, depending on how many committee hearings are needed to discuss the report due today from special counsel William French, said House Speaker Joe Lane. Mecham, a Republican, has been indicted on six counts of fraud, perjury and filing false documents for failing to report a loan from Tempe developer Barry Wolfson. French has been investigating the loan, the governor’s inaugural fund and the protocol fund that was created with money raised by the inaugural.