

Nagel talks more like a sailor than a sailor, a lively contrast to her prim appearance. He climbs out of his car dressed in jeans and cowboy boots. The house, much of which he built himself ten years ago, sits on five acres of undeveloped desert, nearly at the foot of Signal Peak. Jim Hartdegen, who served in the Arizona State Legislature for fourteen years before he was indicted in the AzScam sting, drives a car that's built like an El Camino and that has seen better days, bouncing along to his modest home outside Casa Grande on an unpaved road that is riotous with desert marigolds.


She flashes a diamond the size of a grape. She wears sleek, ladylike clothes-fine wool slacks, a crisp blouse with a lacy collar, spectator flats in patent leather. They haven't got much in common on the surface.Ĭandice Nagel, a second-term legislator before she resigned last month, drives home along the Dreamy Draw in a white Mazda convertible and parks in the driveway of a Paradise Valley house that is massive, uninteresting and crammed onto a lot so small that there's barely room for a pool on the patio.
