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There is a candidate on Arizona’s November ballot sitting in a Maricopa County jail who says he can’t afford to post bail. David Redkey, 45, is the Green Party nominee in Arizona’s 3rd Congressional District. He was booked into jail on Saturday, September 19. Court records list a computer tampering charge and counts of threatening or intimidating. Outlets are reporting the exact charge breakdown slightly differently, so that will get cleaned up as the case moves. According to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, detectives with its Threat Management Unit contacted Redkey on September 19 and he admitted to the communications. Prosecutors say he emailed threats to a Superior Court judge and to an attorney’s office. At his first court appearance, Deputy County Attorney Stephen Garcia told the judge the emails referenced a gun, and that the gun was never recovered, which he called a grave concern for the state. The prosecutor also said the threats extended to the victims’ children and...

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