FOR A LAWYER, HE WAS SUCCINCT

posted by Michael Chihak

Attorney General Tom Horne walked in for our interview appointment Thursday morning, sat in his assigned chair and had the microphone connected in quick fashion. Then, just as quickly, he answered a dozen or so questions and was done with it.

Quick handshake, microphone off, out of the chair, and he was gone. It practically took a crew member longer to dab the glistening spot off his forehead than it did for him to be interviewed. (Watch the interview video, and you'll see that the crew spent no time with the glistening spots on my forehead.)

His brevity seemed a departure to me from how he handled interviews in the past, at least the interviews I was in on. Perhaps he had other pressing business. Perhaps he said what he wanted.

The conclusion was a succinct interview, fairly easy to edit for tonight's episode of Arizona Week. Watch it at 8:30 MST on KUAT-TV Channel 6 in Tucson and at 10:30 MST on KAET-TV Channel 8 in Phoenix. It also will be on our Website, azweek.com, by 8:30 MST, and the unedited interview with Tom Horne will be there, also.

One interesting aside from the short time with Horne. As he was settling in and last-second camera checks were under way, he volunteered that his Spanish had gotten so good from lessons he was taking that he now conducts his interviews with Spanish-language media in Spanish.